Introducing Google Home Mini
Get hands-free help in any room with Google Home Mini. It’s powered by the Google Assistant. You can ask it questions. Tell it to do things. It’s your own personal Google. Use your voice to quickly find information about the weather, news, sports and more. Get help with things like your schedule, commute, travel information and more. Control your favourite music, movies and shows, using only your voice.Use your voice to control your compatible lights, thermostats and more. Get personalized responses for everyone at home with voice recognition. Google Home Mini comes in two unique colors, Chalk and Charcoal. Select the right color that matches your room and personal style.
Google Home Mini: Design
It’s immediately obvious that design is a lot more important to Google than it is to Amazon. While the Amazon Echo Dot is entirely utilitarian, with visible grilles, buttons and microphones, the Google Home Mini makes a decent stab at looking nice.There are no hard edges – what you get is a large Babybel wrapped in various coloured fabrics. The only thing giving it away as a gadget is the microUSB cable it needs for power, and the LEDs that peek through the fabric at the top when the device is active.Tucked away at the back is a small slider, which mutes the microphone. It’s a bit fiddly, though, and given it’s at the back of the device, I wish it had been just a button instead of a slider.It may not look like it, but despite the fabric finish, the Google Home Mini has touch-sensitive controls. You tap the left of the device to turn the volume down; the right to turn the volume up.
Google Home Mini – Features
The Google Home Mini can do pretty much everything the big Google Home can do. You can, of course, just treat it as a Bluetooth speaker and use it to play songs from your phone, but that wouldn’t be making the most of its potential.It runs on Google Assistant, and you can use your voice to command it to do a whole lot of things. The most basic commands include setting alarms, making shopping lists and getting weather reports. It gets more interesting when you factor in smart home components, such as Phillps hue lightbulbs and Hive Thermostats. It can also play music from a number of big-name services, such as Google Play Music, Spotify and TuneIn.
