Google Home - Smart Speaker + TIDAL Premium 4-Month FREE Trial

Fine example of AI (Artificial Intelligence). Works well. Simple Plug & Play installation. Download and setup App to make personal preferences, location, etc. Device has incredible sound and the ability to "understand" you. The female voice is clear and pleasant. It is in the learning stages so not everything you ask it yields a successful response. You get its attention by saying "OK Google", "Hey Google" works too. Works with Chromecast devices to turn on/off lights, TV viewing, etc.. Read the product description online to get a good understanding of this device and its capabilities. I'd like to able to customize "OK Google" to another wakeup phrase, along with the thousands of other Home users. Home has the ability to translate into many languages but not as many as Google Translate on my Android phone (?). I like the instant weather and news updates just by asking "How's my day?". It is a bit of a gadget and this point but I have faith that Google will make this the best on the market by bettering it's completion (Echo, Siri, Alexa).

We were at a friends who had the Amazon Alexa. The kids had fun playing with it so we decided to get the Google because it ft our budget better and we were not going to use it for ordering things. Alexa seems to understand questions better and have a better wit hen asked crazy things

It is easy to set up. Connect it to your wireless network and download the software to your smartphone. Easy to navigate. She is not married and does not have any children - yes - we asked these questions. Sadly, when asked if we could change her name she said it was too much work for google to do this :-( and yes, she did answer this question. Keeping the google calendar linked between my phone & my desktop and now easily availabe on google home is great. It does NOT let you ADD an appointment and I hope this becomes available. Another reason for the 4 stars is the limited music choices compared to Alexa. I would like to see iHeart Radio and even Sirrus radio would be nice to have too. The kids use for homework and I'm always using it while cooking for setting timers, alarms to wake up the kids. LOVE IT! Definitely smarter than Alexa.

I ordered this because I had seen it advertised and thought it would be fun and could be helpful too! I have a lot to learn yet but I have used it for music and playing games! You can ask it anything of course! This is the future and it is already here in my house! I think everyone should have a Google Home.!

Google Home has become a daily part of my life. I look forward to using it every day, particularly when I start my mornings with asking it "Tell me about my day". The fact that it's so easy to integrate it with all my smart home devices and cast to it from my Android phone with ease is wonderful. The fact that I can ask it questions, and it has contextual awareness of previous questions I've asked is awesome. Music playback and being able to use it to play videos off of voice command on to my chromecast is great! Ok, now to the things I find missing: it doesn't integrate as well with casting general audio from an iOS device. This means that you can only cast to it through apps that support casting. This is also the case with the chromecast, but honestly, considering that it is a speaker, I would at least have liked to have the bare bluetooth connectivity functionality that I expect out of other speakers in my home (or even the Amazon Echo). Also there are many commands that it says it "can't do yet", like adding stuff to my calendar, setting reminders, making calls, sending texts etc.. Also the device is really only tied to one familiy member's Google account, so any accounts and preferences you might have will be specific to you and not to other people that are in your home. They won't be able to play their own curated Spotify playlists or youtube playlists. That isn't to say that if you mention an artist you want to listen to, it won't auto-generate a playlist for you. At the end of the day, despite the lack of bluetooth capabilities and single-Account service, I have faith that Google will open up APIs for community development and even for their own service integration so that calendar, reminders, etc. actually work through it. I happened to get it at around $100, so the price point was also a big reason for me to get it over the Echo. Also, the Echo, while a bigger speaker with more mics and slightly more capabilities for the minute, is just not as smart of a device. I feel that inevitably this is Google's element and they are poised to do better than the Echo.