GOOGLE HOME: REVIEW

Google Home is the future, but in the present. The home of tomorrow is quickly becoming the home of today and thanks to devices like Amazon Echo and Google Home, disembodied voices can help you fill the organisational void in your lives. Google Home’s USP is helping you out in the home – it’s designed to be the hub of your family’s life, helping you stay on top of what’s going on while also answering those burning IMDB queries about that actor in that film you once watched ten years ago.
Don’t expect Google Home to offer The Jetsons robot maid Rosie-levels of household help though – it’s not going to clean your car or mop your floors – but it will let you know if little Timmy has football practice after school next Wednesday and what the time is in New York.
Google’s AI assistant is, in fact, a compact, internet-connected speaker no bigger than a small vase. It’s designed to be unobtrusive and stylish – to blend in with your home decor.

The elephant, or cylinder, in the room is the Amazon Echo, to which last year we gave a solid four star review. It’s a very similar product aiming to do very similar things, the only real downside being the uncertainty around its competency for connected home applications.
Google Home, on the other hand, is more than just a connected speaker with some search and reminder functionality; it’s designed from the ground up to be the beating heart of the home of the future.

Amazon may have millions of registered users but I’d hazard a guess that Google has far, far more. Google Home is the device for anyone who has invested even the tiniest bit of time into Google’s ecosystem. Got a Gmail account? Google Home is for you. Use an Android phone? You bet you’ll get something out of Google Home. How about if you use Google Chrome, Drive, Docs, Play Music or YouTube? This is definitely the device you need in your home.
Want to know what you’ve got going on during the day, but don’t want to flick through Google Calendar or check the weather? Simply ask Home “Tell me about my day” and it’ll pull all of your appointments from Gmail, Calendar and even check the weather for you without you needing to ask separately. Wondering where your calendar appointment is taking place? Home will tell you (assuming you were organised enough to enter that info in the first place) and it’ll give you a rough estimate of how long it’ll take to get there

It’s so contextually aware (far more than Amazon Echo) that you’ll occasionally think there’s some sort of trickery going on in that air freshener-shaped ornament.
Google Home isn’t just good with people, though, it also excels at talking to other bits of tech in your home. Controlling Chromecast devices is a breeze, allowing you to stream Netflix to your TV by simply telling it to cast whatever you fancy watching. You will need to have Netflix installed on your phone, though, just as you would if you were casting by swiping and tapping (how old-fashioned).
Because it works via your phone, which can stay in your pocket or left untouched on the side the entire time you’re using Home, apps like BBC iPlayer, YouTube,
NowTV and so on all also work right out of the box.
Spotify is a dream to use with Google Home. Simply say: “play Daft Punk, Discovery” and Home will fire it up and play it either out of its speaker or any Google Cast-enabled speaker you fancy. Unfortunately it doesn’t seem to support Bluetooth connections, so you can’t send audio to those types of speaker.
Google Home will, eventually, be more third-party app friendly compared to the Amazon Echo. For now, however, Home is at a disadvantage as there aren’t yet quite as wide a choice of third-party integrations available. That should change over time, however, with developers able to produce their own integrations via Conversation Actions and the Conversation API that’s currently used for developing commands for Google Assistant.

Create a reminder from Google Home

To create a reminder from Google Home, there are a handful of commands you can use. Say something like:

"OK, Google, remind me to go for a run tomorrow at 8:00 a.m.""OK, Google, remind me to go to the grocery story every Sunday morning."

You can be specific with times or use general times, like morning or evening. And you can also use contextual times, such as "20 minutes from now."
To manage your reminders with Google Home, say things like:

"OK, Google, what are my reminders?""OK, Google, what are my reminders for tomorrow?""OK, Google, what is my reminder to go for a run?""OK, Google, delete all of my reminders.""OK, Google, delete my reminder to go the grocery store.""OK, Google, delete my reminders for tomorrow."

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