A little less than two weeks ago, Google announced the successor to the Google
Home Mini called the Nest Mini. Now we've had our Nest Mini for a few days
or so now and I want to go ahead and give you the rundown of everything
that's new with the Nest Mini, how it compares to the Google Home Mini, and
ultimately my recommendations for whether or not you should start
replacing all of your Google Home Minis now with Nest Minis, let's dive in. The
Google Home Mini has been one of the most popular Google Assistant speakers
in terms of volume, so any change to the speaker is going to be a big deal. So
what's new with the Nest Mini? Well first, the name. Google has been slowly
rebranding all of their Google Home devices to Google Nest devices and the
Nest Mini is just the latest device to get this new brand name treatment. Aside
from the name change at first glance you wouldn't think there's that much
different with the Nest Mini than the Google Home Mini. It so has relatively
the same dimensions and looks very similar except now it comes in a new
color called sky, which is the mini that we have. But there are a lot more changes
here than you might expect. At the bottom of the mini there's a new wall mount
integrated into it so you can hang the speaker directly on your wall, there's a
new touch sensitive area at the top of the mini for playing/pausing media,
the power jack is no longer micro USB and the new mini pulls in 15 watts of
power versus five watts with the Google Home Mini, there are two new LED lights
on the device that light up to show you where to tap to turn up or turn down the
volume. Google has also made some changes under the hood as well, they've worked on
improving the speaker to make it sound just a little bit better and the speaker
now also puts out two times the base of the original Google Home Mini. Here's
a comparison of how the Nest Mini sounds compared to the Google Home Mini.
Google also included their new machine learning chip on the Nest Mini itself
which is actually a pretty big deal. Like with devices like the new Pixel 4 and
the Pixel 4 XL I'm holding right now which has the Google Assistant running
locally on device, what this means is that over the next couple of months
you're just going to be able to anticipate the Nest Mini's response times
and overall speed of the Google assistant to get much faster because
it's going to rely less on the cloud and be able to process some of your requests
on the actual device itself. The last change that Google made to the speaker
was including a third far-field microphone so the device will be able to
hear you even better and more accurately. The Nest Mini retails for $49
officially but as always, you know that a price cut will drop during the holidays
and during other times next year. So should you replace all of your Google
Home Minis with Nest Minis? My answer there is actually no and here's why.
While I think the Nest Mini offers a lot of improvements in its design and
functionality at least from a hardware standpoint over the Google Home Mini, in
my opinion they're still just not quite enough there to justify replacing all
the Google Home Minis you have in your house with Nest Minis, especially at full
price. I mean if you want to, go ahead, but if your main concern is actually you
like your Google Home Mini, you just wish it sounded way better, my advice there
would be to save up for something like the Nest Hub Max or the Google Home Max.
You're just going to get incredible sound with those devices especially the
Google Home Max which in my opinion, is the best sounding smart speaker with the
Google Assistant baked into it. My advice there would be save up for one
of those or wait till the holiday season they usually see a price cut around
Black Friday through the Christmas holidays, so that would be my advice
there. Well that's it for our first look at the Nest Mini, thank you so much for
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Nest videos like this one. For 6 Months Later, I'm Josh Teder, thanks for
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