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    Review: Google Nest Mini

    Nov 15, 2019 8 minutes

    Price: £49 (inc VAT) from fave.co/2PQNe8z

    You can’t be blamed for mistaking the £49 Nest Mini for its two-year-old predecessor, the (also £49) Google Home Mini. Indeed, the biggest difference between the two smart speakers, which look virtually identical aside from a few iterative design tweaks, might be Google’s decision (which I still find confusing, frankly) to swap out the ‘Home’ moniker for ‘Nest’, following in the footsteps of the rebranded Google Nest Hub and the recent Google Nest Hub Max.

    Still, there are some laudable changes here, though none that demand turning in your existing Home Mini(s) to your local recycling centre. Among the improvements: marginally better sound, a new mounting hole, an additional built-in microphone, and a machine-learning chip designed to make Google Assistant faster and smarter over time. The Nest Mini’s capacitive touch controls have also been shuffled and refined, although they might still confuse someone who isn’t familiar with the speaker’s tricks.

    So, should you upgrade? Given the Nest Mini’s inexpensive price tag (which will probably see steep and periodic discounts in the coming months, if history is any guide), a better question is: should you buy a Nest Mini to go with your current Home Mini? By all means, yes, particularly given the upcoming Nest home monitoring features that both the Nest Mini and Home Mini will support. More on

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