According to a recent report from Android Police, Google has more than just two Pixel phones to announce later this year. Apparently, Google will also unveil a smaller version of Google Home, as well as new Pixel-branded Chromebook.
At $129, Google Home is already a compact product, but I suppose it could get smaller. There are no specifics from the report’s source on what we should expect, so we can at least share what we hope Google might announce. For example, if Google shrunk down a Google Home that plugs directly into an electrical outlet, like an NVIDIA SPOT, then charged $50-75 for it, that would pretty much make my dreams come true.
Again, the report provides no specifics on size or features of this “miniaturized” Google Home, but we’ll keep you posted.
As for the new Chromebook Pixel, there are no specific details provided for that either, but it’s reported it is likely a followup to the Chromebook Pixel from 2015 and may or may not be based on a previously rumored Project Bison that Google was working on.
While this may not be the most detailed report ever, the idea that Google has more hardware in store for later this year has us plenty excited.
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18 responses to “Report: Google Readying Smaller Google Home, New Chromebook Pixel”
I want a Google Home focused on audio quality
if google does come out with a smaller version, then I hope there will be another big discount for it like what they did for the current Google Home lol.
I’d buy a $50 Google Home. I think $100+ is too much for what Google Home is. I would gladly get the Echo Dot if it was tied more to Google services but it’s not. I hope this happens.
Like you, I’d like a $50 Google Home Dot (I want to use my own speakers in my office). I have an Echo Dot and I use it pretty often since it’s a no-effort way to listen to music in my office that’s disconnected from my computer (i.e. reboots, etc. don’t affect it). Before the Dot I never used Amazon Prime Music but I actually use it pretty frequently with the Dot. But I sure wish the Play Music library was available with such ease for $50 or less!
Of course it is yet another item, but I use CC Audios for casting to various stereos around my house or meshing them together for whole home audio. I had 3 of them first before finally buying a Google Home on sale just to add easier voice controlling of them all by various family members.
Oh, I already have CC Audios setup for a whole-house sound system, including in my office (I have an audio mixer in my office connecting several things to my speakers, including both an Echo Dot and a CCAudio). It’s the final voice control aspect that I need. When my phone rings or as I begin a VoIP conversation on my computer, I want to speak to pause as I’m physically grabbing my phone/headset. As I’m logging into my computer, I want to speak to start music in my office.
But I’m not paying $100 for that – I’ll just use Amazon Prime Music until this is a $30-50 option from Google.
The current one would be worth $100 if they did reminders, fixed the shopping lists (putting it back in keep AND allowing you to save to different named lists) and made a promise to stop screwing with it (aka breaking functionality)
Right now its still very much a beta product. Its good for a beta but you have to treat it like a beta.
I view it as a stand alone Google Assistant. Which it is and is all good but I have Google Assistant on my phone. $100+ for something I already have is a hard purchase. But $50 is a little easier to sell me on. I’m just starting to get into Smart light bulbs and would like to have something sitting in my living room that is able to control them easily by voice. The Echo Dot would be fine for that but as I said, it would be even more worth the money if it also tied into Google more.
Well there is some value in the more powerful speaker/microphone combo.
Yes, we have a few, and they basically serve as whole home audio devices, along with the normal google assistant stuff. I’d actually like to see a slight more expensive one (like the upcoming apple pod) with slightly better audio… They are worth it for that.
Also needs to be able to send texts….
It will probably be another year or two before they implement that function…..
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I’d guess $40 would be the better pricepoint. Echo is $50, but it frequently drops below that. (ive got 3 and have paid no more than 40)
Don’t see it being just $5 more than Chromecast.
No reason why it shouldnt be. Hell, amazon’s fire stick is $40, which is what the echo dot is routinely.
Amazon is giving them away because supposedly people shop Amazon via Alexa. Google has no ads or Amazon-like store on Google Home.
True. But Google does, I’m sure, log our queries and uses the information to present us with personalized ads on other platforms. Ad revenue accounts for the vast majority of Google’s income.