Google Home Mini Review: Smart Home for $49?| Full Specification and price| latest technology 2020

 

Google Home Mini Review: Smart Home for $49?| Full Specification and price| latest technology 2020

 

Google home mini it's 49 bucks and that's almost all that matters here we already had the original Google home which I think right now is 129 but this the little one is a game-changer because it does all of the exact same stuff the big one does but for less than half the price and in a way smaller package so here's everything.

Brand          Google Number of Speakers     1 Speaker Type    Voice-Activated Speaker Compatible with       All Model Number GA00216-US Microphone Included   Shape Round Noise Cancelling   Nominal Output  10 - 20 Watt Item EAN           2724528430818                   Audio Port Type USB Connectivity Technology Wireless Color Black Product weight  250 gm

You need to know if you're considering getting a Google Home Mini first of all, I reviewed the original Google home I have a couple of them now in the studio and at home it looks like this pretty solid Google Home Mini looks like this it comes in three different colors the coral choc and charcoal and I know the size and the scale is sometimes hard to show.

So there you go right around 4 inches across it's like the size of a doughnut and when you plug it in it basically looks like this fabric pebble with lights, I feel like it could kind of blend into almost any room in most houses pretty easily especially in this gray color volume up volume down and long press to actually physically trigger the assistant otherwise you can do it with your voice of course, because there are microphones and then you pair it up with the google home app on your iPhone or Android phone,

And you're good to go again everything is the same here as the bigger Google home the only physical disadvantage of being smaller is the smaller the speaker here obviously the single upward-firing speaker can't give you quite the same volume as the 3 speaker setup of the Google home,

Which is kind of a big deal for some people may be those who listen to music a lot but for most this single speaker is really just fine so night.

Google actually calls it a 360 degree sound but that's just their way of making a single upward-firing driver sound cool but it's just basically it's unidirectional there's no other direction one big speaker could face I just do you think it would benefit from having an audio jack for people who actually just want to plug it into some speakers and benefit from the better sound.

And while we're on it I do have some other minor complaints about the hardware number one I wish it was USB see they went with micro USB even though it's 2017 and this thing only has one port it could have easily been USB see come on Google but then the bigger complaint is the mute switch it's actually kind of annoying you can already mute Google home by asking it to but in the case that you actually want a physical button the regular Google home has a button on the back to quickly mute it.

You just press it again to unmute it but if you mute Google home mini with your voice then when you go to unmute it with the switch you got to flip it once and then flips it back because it was already flipped to unmuted when you started it's like those rooms with two light switches like ones up and ones down but you want to turn the lights on with one to turn it down,

And then it turns it up and it just it's out of sync after a while but online is it should have been a button, not a switch would have been much easier but from there everything else about this $49 Google Home Mini is exactly the same as the $129 regular size Google home so all the same commands the same phone call ability the same AI all that useful stuff hey Google Find My Phone yes hey Google how long have there been sharks on earth 420 million years on the website shark savers or say hey Google.

What is this surface temperature of the Sun hey Google show me essential phone videos sure playing essential phone videos from YouTube on the studio is it going to rain today yes the forecast for today in Kearny is 77 degrees Fahrenheit with rain hey Google what's the tallest building in Europe tallest buildings in Europe include OCO tower at 1,000 160 feet hey Google play a b-flat sure.

Here's a b-flat hey Google roll a 12-sided die coming right up it's a three hey Google how many pints are in a quart it's pretty easy so this fits nicely in a sort of a lineup now they have the Google Home Mini and the regular one and the Mac's at like three weight different price points and it's still gaining features as time goes on so like there's the stuff that hasn't been fully activated yet I can't do texting yet on my Google homes but that's something that'll be available soon.

So that's basically it's a mini-review for a mini speaker again it's all stuff we've seen before but the main new thing really here is just the price being forty-nine bucks brings it down into competition with all the people considering buying Amazon echo dot that's also about 45 bucks.