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Testseek.com have collected 272 expert reviews of the Google Home bluetooth portable speaker and the average rating is 78%. Scroll down and see all reviews for Google Home bluetooth portable speaker.
Award: Most Awarded January 2017
January 2017
 
(78%)
272 Reviews
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776 Reviews
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The editors liked

  • $50 cheaper than Echo
  • Base is customizable
  • Responsive voice controls
  • Google Assistant is way smarter than Alexa
  • The "OK Google" hotword performance is absolutely incredible. It always answers
  • And all your other hotword capable devices hive mind together to intelligently pick a single device to respond to you
  • A great media product. For audio there's a loud
  • Crisp
  • Attractive design
  • “conversational” search
  • Backed by Google's immense database
  • Excellent audio quality
  • Amazing far field microphones
  • Google Assistant
  • Hands free casting to all Google Cast devices
  • Phenomenal customizable design
  • Great integration with Google Services
  • Multi-room audio playback
  • Great tie-ins with Google account a
  • Removable color bases
  • Well-rounded sound
  • Multi-room audio
  • Discrete design that blends nicely with furniture
  • Incredible audio quality
  • Controls connected devices
  • Swappable bases
  • Excellent voice recognition
  • Affordable price
  • Lovely customizable design
  • Customizable base
  • Supports virtually every major smart home brand
  • Hardware Reviews
  • Google Home review
  • After nearly two years
  • Is it still worth it?
  • By
  • Jason England
  • September 12
  • 2018
  • Google Home is the original Google Assistant enabled smart speaker. When it launched competition didn't exist. If you wanted an A
  • Looks great
  • Sounds great
  • Category-leading microphone performance
  • Google Assistant is hyper-intelligent
  • Packed with surprise-and-delight features
  • Excellent design that looks great in any room
  • 2.5-inch circular screen is bright
  • And doubles as a clock
  • Camera can be completely disabled
  • Great sound in a compact package
  • Powerful voice-recognition capabilties
  • Fantastic Alexa integration
  • Wit
  • ZigBee smart home hub onboard
  • Large
  • Vibrant
  • Higher-resolution display
  • Vastly improved user interface
  • Home looks like a gadget you'd actually want in your home. Assistant does all the basic things really well
  • Plus a few remarkably cool things too. It's an impressively good speaker
  • For such a tiny package
  • With Google Assistant built in
  • The Google Home integrates with Google Calendar
  • Maps and Chromecast
  • So it gives you personalized answers. Say the word
  • And the Home can also control your smart home gadgets or send music and video to your TV and speakers
  • Integrates with your Google tools
  • Controls Google Cast-enabled devices
  • Booming bass
  • Unobtrusive
  • Stylish design
  • Audio output ranges from just a whisper to pleasingly loud
  • Longrange microphone works wonderfully
  • Tight integration with Google accounts and associated services
  • Affordably priced
  • IOS compatibility in addition to Android
  • Michael A. Prospero is the reviews editor at Laptop Mag and Tom’s Guide. When he’s not testing out the latest running watc
  • Skiing or training for a maratho
  • He’s probably using the latest kitchen gadget
  • Tasteful design
  • Access to Google's massive knowledge graph
  • Google Assistant is conversational and context aware
  • Chromecast integration has the potential to be a killer feature

The editors didn't like

  • Only connects to three major smart home brands
  • Doesn't sound as good as an Echo
  • Most of my favorite voice commands from the Google app don't work—no reminders
  • Messages
  • Or creating calendar events
  • Do you want to know exactly what voice commands are supported for each service and function? Nobody knows! Comprehensive documentation f
  • Large power brick
  • Conversational search is still limited
  • Not portable/has to be plugged in at all times
  • Only a few supported non-Google services like Spotify or Pandora at launch
  • Only a few supported smart home devices at launch
  • Cloud service is incomplete
  • Doesn't work as a standard Bluetooth speaker
  • Limited selection of supported apps and connected devices from the onset
  • Can still sound robotic with its responses
  • Sound quality limited
  • Not total smart home compatibility
  • Google Cast issues
  • $30 more than the second-gen Echo
  • Doesn't sound as good as Echo
  • Hardware Reviews
  • Plays catch-up to Amazon in third-party device support
  • Still has some learning to do
  • Hefty cord somewhat limits where it can be placed
  • Videos are truncated in full-screen mode
  • You can't use voice commands to stream music from your own local server
  • You can use voice commands with only a handful of the 80+ streaming services Sonos suppor
  • No Z-Wave support
  • Not the best smart speaker for music
  • The power plug can be a little tricky to hide
  • Lack of visual search can be frustrating
  • Plays catch-up t
  • Not much of the Googleinfused personalization or intelligence seems to be here yet. Google doesn't have many thirdparty partners yet
  • So you're stuck in Google Land
  • The Home's integrations with other Google services still don't allow a lot of give and take -- you can't create reminders or make a to-do list
  • Limited add-ons at this point
  • Lacks balanced sound
  • Especially on vocals
  • Feature discovery can be less than intuitive
  • Absence of certain features (like Play Music library support) is confusing
  • Additional investment needed to take advantage of smarthome control
  • Speaker quality is only so-so for music
  • Limited third-party app support compared to Amazon
  • A handful of expected features aren't available at launch

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  Published: 2020-01-17, Author: Luke , review by: toptenreviews.com

  • Excellent voice recognition, Affordable price, Lovely customizable design
  • Sound quality limited, Not total smart home compatibility, Google Cast issues
  • Google Home has a supreme smart assistant that lets you control the smart home and more but the sound quality could still be improved...

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  Published: 2019-02-06, Author: Michael , review by: pcworld.com_techhive.com

  • Excellent design that looks great in any room, 2.5-inch circular screen is bright, crisp, and doubles as a clock, Camera can be completely disabled, ZigBee smart home hub onboard, Large, vibrant, higher-resolution display, Vastly improved user interface,
  • Hefty cord somewhat limits where it can be placed, Videos are truncated in full-screen mode, No Z-Wave support, Not the best smart speaker for music, The power plug can be a little tricky to hide, Lack of visual search can be frustrating, Plays catch-up t
  • The Echo Spot just might be the perfect smart speaker, with a versatility and fashion-sense that give it a sense of purpose and style.In a two-device race to rule table-top A.I, Google Home bests Amazon Echo in terms of audio quality, microphone range, d...

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  Published: 2018-09-12, Author: Jason , review by: androidguys.com

  • Hardware Reviews, Google Home review: After nearly two years, is it still worth it?, By, Jason England, September 12, 2018, Google Home is the original Google Assistant enabled smart speaker. When it launched competition didn't exist. If you wanted an A
  • Hardware Reviews
  • The great thing about smart speakers is they don't age the same as other tech does. They don't get slower over time, the battery life doesn't decline, and a new faster one doesn't come out every year. That means your smart speaker never gets worse, in fac...

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  Published: 2018-07-16, Author: The , review by: goodhousekeeping.com

  • Abstract:  One of the hottest trends to take hold recently is the voice-activated speaker, and — no surprise! — the two biggest players are Amazon and Google. These devices work off of your home's Wi-Fi. You can ask them to share the weather or news highlights, set...

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  Published: 2018-06-27, Author: Raymond , review by: mashable.com

  • Customizable base, Responsive voice controls, Google Assistant is way smarter than Alexa, Supports virtually every major smart home brand
  • $30 more than the second-gen Echo, Doesn't sound as good as Echo
  • Google Home is more intelligent than Amazon's Echo in almost every way thanks to Google Search and the Google Assistant

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  Published: 2018-06-05, Author: Chris , review by: hothardware.com

  • Abstract:  Amazon and Google are massive tech giants, for vastly different reasons. Google is the leading search engine provider, a smartphone platform juggernaut, and huge advertising machine, while Amazon is the largest e-tailer in the world and a cloud services p...

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  Published: 2018-04-19, Author: Chester , review by: musicphotolife.com

  • After 1 week of playing around the Google Home and Mini at home, I realise how useful and fun they can be. If you already have smart home devices at home, then getting a Google Home will allow you to interact with the smart devices. But if your home does...

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  Published: 2018-04-02, review by: topnewreview.com

  • Abstract:  New to the UK, this is Google's rival to the Amazon Echo, a web-connected home assistant (or smart speaker) that listens for voice commands and gives you instant responses. We prefer the Home's look, which resembles a large air freshener (by contrast the...

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  Published: 2018-03-07, Author: Michael , review by: pcworld.com_techhive.com

 
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  Published: 2018-02-05, Author: Michael , review by: pcworld.com_techhive.com

  • Excellent design that looks great in any room, 2.5-inch circular screen is bright, crisp, and doubles as a clock, Camera can be completely disabled, Great sound in a compact package, Powerful voice-recognition capabilties, Fantastic Alexa integration, wit
  • Hefty cord somewhat limits where it can be placed, Videos are truncated in full-screen mode, You can't use voice commands to stream music from your own local server, You can use voice commands with only a handful of the 80+ streaming services Sonos suppor
  • The Echo Spot just might be the perfect smart speaker, with a versatility and fashion-sense that give it a sense of purpose and style.In a two-device race to rule table-top A.I, Google Home bests Amazon Echo in terms of audio quality, microphone range, d...

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