Walmart accidentally leaks Google Home Mini ahead of Oct. 4 announcement
Thought it pulled a product page within a matter of minutes, Walmart on Tuesday briefly offered preorders for the Home Mini, a new smartspeaker expected to be officially revealed in a Wednesday Google announcement.
The disc-like speaker is a little over 4 inches wide, with four lights on top presumably matching those on the full-sized Home, according to photos and text from the product page, shared by Gizmodo. The device should weigh less than a pound, and cost $49.
The leak would appear to back up Droid Life information from last month, which also suggested that the Mini will come in three colors: charcoal, gray, and coral.
The device appears to be a direct competitor with Amazon's Echo Dot, which costs $49.99 and likewise serves as a cheaper alternative to a full-size speaker. The regular Google Home costs $129, and hasn't achieved as much traction as the growing Echo lineup, despite Google Assistant often being considered a better voice assistant than Amazon's Alexa. Amazon was the first company to succeed in smartspeakers, and Alexa now integrates with a number of apps, services, and smarthome accessories.
Other Google products anticipated on Oct. 4 include two Android phones, the "Pixel 2" and "Pixel 2 XL," plus a "Pixelbook" Chromebook with a stylus.
Apple's first smartspeaker, the HomePod, will only ship in December for $349. Unlike the Echo or Home the product is being aimed at an audiophile market, helping to explain its richer pricetag.
The disc-like speaker is a little over 4 inches wide, with four lights on top presumably matching those on the full-sized Home, according to photos and text from the product page, shared by Gizmodo. The device should weigh less than a pound, and cost $49.
The leak would appear to back up Droid Life information from last month, which also suggested that the Mini will come in three colors: charcoal, gray, and coral.
The device appears to be a direct competitor with Amazon's Echo Dot, which costs $49.99 and likewise serves as a cheaper alternative to a full-size speaker. The regular Google Home costs $129, and hasn't achieved as much traction as the growing Echo lineup, despite Google Assistant often being considered a better voice assistant than Amazon's Alexa. Amazon was the first company to succeed in smartspeakers, and Alexa now integrates with a number of apps, services, and smarthome accessories.
Other Google products anticipated on Oct. 4 include two Android phones, the "Pixel 2" and "Pixel 2 XL," plus a "Pixelbook" Chromebook with a stylus.
Apple's first smartspeaker, the HomePod, will only ship in December for $349. Unlike the Echo or Home the product is being aimed at an audiophile market, helping to explain its richer pricetag.
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Sog you’re Ok here and it’s true, generally no one cares about their leaks. IDK why AI is reporting this either.
To state that no one cares about this stuff is just plain wrong. Time to get a sheepskin noseband for those blinkers you are obviously wearing.
Or maybe it has to do with the fact that black and white is the theme of their new devices (Android Oreo).
Hmm...
The chromebook prices are crazy high. Here I thought if you wanted a cheap computer you get a chrome computer. At these prices you might was well get a MacBook or a Microsoft Surface.
This new mini speaker is just more copying Amazon like they're copying Apple. Personally I think these devices are 5 years too late!!! It's a device locked into a room by a power cord. So now you're littering your house with these things. My original Apple Watch can do the same things and it works everywhere I'm at inside my house, outside my house, away from my house!!! If you don't have one or really use it, you have no idea what the Apple Watch is really capable of!!!.
The prices Google wants for this stuff, I just don't get. Why would any Android user pay?. Android has been marketed has the cheaper devices. Yet they're basically higher prices now then the iPhone 8 and 8 plus. Well the 8 U.S. $100 more, but again, twice the storage space..
I really don't see big sales numbers for their hardware. Maybe they'll seek a few more of their $50 Google speaker, Amazon echo clone. I'm not sure they can even beat last year's Poor Pixel sales of less then 2 million in a year. They're trying to be more like Apple for the last couple years, and yet it's not really working for them. I can't really figure out what they're trying to do currently. It's not working and it doesn't make much sense for them to even do.
Do Google fans really care about any of these new hardware products? Anyone plan to buy any of it?
I suspect the pixel is positioned as reference hardware, not intended to compete with Android OEMs. Thus not intended to be a big seller.
Google does this because it can, not because it needs to, as after all the true reference smartphone is an iPhone.
256k is fine and I'd bet (seem to recall?) that blind tests show/ed most people can't tell the difference.
So basically they're netbooks, all over again.