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.
January 2017
(78%)
272 Reviews
Average score from experts who have reviewed this product.
Users
(88%)
776 Reviews
Average score from owners of the product.
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The editors liked
Excellent voice recognition
Reasonable price
Easy to setup
Six-month free trial of YouTube Red / Google Play Music
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
Customizable base
Massive song library
Expanding hardware ecosystem
Sixmonth YouTube Red trial
Nice simple and minimalistic design
It's a great start for smart homes
Is always listening
And does a pretty good job with your commands
Can control lights and other smart home devices
Expandable
You get the feeling this is the first of many Google
Quality Google Assistant speakers from Googles
Easy to set up
Affordable
Decent audio quality
Amazing source of information
Gets better the more you use it
The editors didn't like
Average audio quality
Limited integration with third party services
Wonderful when it works
Frustrating when it doesn't
Works best with other smart home devices
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
Missing Google's own services
Phrasing needs to be precise
No Bluetooth
Speaker isn't fantastic
Interpretation isn't always good
Google doesn't talk to enough around the home (yet)
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
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
Google Home is a great way to show off just how smart Google is, but it doesn't feel like an essential experience yet. That's mainly because it lags behind the Echo in terms of support for third-party services. That makes Echo a smarter buy if you wan...
Abstract: Google Home preorders have started arriving and interested consumers can head down to certain brick & mortar stores to pick one up starting today. I've been messing with Home for a little while and I feel like there's already quite a bit to say about it.M...
Abstract: Google Home is an interesting product to review. In a way, it's just an internet-connected microphone and speaker array that draws all of its smarts from the cloud. On the other hand, it's maybe the purest reflection of Google's ambitions in both the arti...
Published: 2016-11-03, Author: David , review by: wired.com
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
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
Published: 2016-11-03, Author: Ron , review by: arstechnica.com
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
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
Attractive design, Removable color bases, Well-rounded sound, Multi-room audio
Cloud service is incomplete, Doesn't work as a standard Bluetooth speaker
Google Home is a great-looking speaker that promises powerful voice assistance, but its cloud service needs a lot of work to catch up to Amazon's Echo platform...
Published: 2016-11-03, Author: Jordan , review by: venturebeat.com
Abstract: The Google Home is off to a solid start. It's a fine wireless speaker with full, loud sound. Its build quality is good. It's easy to set up.It lets you play fun games. It understands what I'm saying and then answers random questions with ease, just like m...
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
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
While the Google Home shows a ton of potential, it's currently not as versatile or useful as Amazon's Echo -- though we expect it to improve in the days and months ahead...
Published: 2016-11-03, Author: Michael , review by: tomsguide.com
Integrates with your Google tools, Controls Google Cast-enabled devices, Booming bass
Limited add-ons at this point, Lacks balanced sound, especially on vocals
Google has made the smart speaker race interesting with Google Home. It can do many of the same basic things as Amazon's Echo can, yet it costs less and has more visual appeal. The Echo delivers better sound, and it connects to far more smart devices, but...
Attractive design, “conversational” search, backed by Google's immense database
Large power brick, conversational search is still limited
There's little question that some sort of voice response device that controls a home tech ecosystem is inevitable. Google Home is the best of them today: The best physical design, the best database behind it, the most "natural" because it can retain the c...
