Google Nest Audio - Everything you need to know about the smart speaker - Android
At its annual hardware event today, Google officially unveiled its latest smart speaker: the Google Nest Audio. As with previous smart speakers from the company, this product exists as a way to bring Google Assistant access into your home whenever you need it.
Unlike the most recent Google Nest Mini, though, this new speaker is much bigger and delivers much more capable sound. Below, you’ll find everything you need to know about the Google Nest Audio!
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Way back in 2016, Google unveiled its very first smart speaker, Google Home. In essence, Google Nest Audio is the unofficial follow-up to that device — think of it as a Google Home 2, in some respects.
Like the Google Home, Google Nest Audio offers a wireless audio experience, whether through Bluetooth, Google Cast, or Wi-Fi. It has Google Assistant on board and responds to the “Hey Google” hotword. It integrates with your smart home, features the four-dot Google Assistant light design scheme, and has a hardware switch on the back that shuts of the microphone.
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Also like the Google Home, the Nest Audio is designed to play music, podcasts, and other audio media. The Nest Mini (and its predecessor, the Google Home Mini) is primarily a cheap entryway into the smart home space, not a high-quality audio system. As such, the new Nest Audio should appeal to folks who want a smart speaker and a good-quality wireless audio speaker all-in-one.
It should be mentioned, though, that the Nest Audio will probably not be as high in audio quality as the older Google Home Max. That product is more expensive, larger, and likely more appealing to those looking for the highest-quality sound they can get from Google.
Now, just because the Google Nest Audio is extremely similar to the Google Home doesn’t mean there aren’t differences between the products.
The first thing you’ll notice about Google’s new smart speaker is that it looks like it morphed from a Google Nest Mini. You’ll find the same fabric covering all around it, and the same oblong curves. It’s almost like someone grabbed a Nest Mini and stretched it out like it was made of putty.
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However, unlike the Nest Mini, you don’t have two options for how this speaker gets placed in your home. With the Nest Mini, you can lay it flat on a table or mount it vertically on the wall with the built-in mounting hole. With the Nest Audio, its sound comes from both the front and back, meaning it must be placed on a table for it to work best.
If you want to measure out where it will go in your house, it’s 6.89 inches tall, 4.8 inches wide, and 3.07 inches thick. It also weighs just over 1kg, making it heavier than the 180g Nest Mini, but lighter than the 4kg Google Home Max.
Android Authority and our sister site SoundGuys will be conducting a thorough Nest Audio review. Until then, we can’t make any formal declarations about how the Google Nest Audio sounds.
However, based on the size, weight, and relative newness of the device, it’s highly likely this speaker will best the audio quality of the original Google Home. According to Google, this new Nest speaker is 75% louder and has a 50% stronger bass response than the original Google Home. This is likely due to the 19mm tweeter and 75mm mid-woofer included.
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Two of the features that will make the Nest Audio sound even better are Media EQ and Ambient IQ. The former will automatically tune the speaker depending on what you’re listening to (music, podcasts, audiobooks, etc.) while the latter auto-adjusts the volume based on how noisy your home is at the moment.
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