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Google Home Hub

This is not the first smart speaker with a screen that we’ve reviewed, and our view remains that there are obvious benefits from the visual information, but the screen also places limitations on their use.

Google’s Home Hub does, however, go some way to overcoming these issues. So while a display inevitably makes a smart screen far larger than a smart speaker, the Home Hub proves remarkably dinky when you unbox it — 18cm wide and 12cm high, with a 7-inch diagonal screen. That’s far less dominant of a bedside table than,

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