Google Launches the Nest Audio Smart Speaker, Priced at $99
Oct. 1, 2020The new Nest Audio looks a lot better than the original Google Home that most people compared to a room freshener. This one comes completely wrapped in fabric, and you can get it in one of five colors: Sage, Sand, Sky, Charcoal, and Chalk. Sage and Sky are my personal favourites out of the lineup, by the way.Image: Google
The speaker comes with a19mm tweeter, and a 75mm mid-wooferfor clear highs and deeper bass. In fact, Google claims the newNest Audio is 75% louder than the Google Home and has 50% better bassresponse as compared to its older sibling.
Also, as expected, the Nest Audio can be paired with other speakers to create stereo setups or even multi-room audio configurations, just like with Sonos speakers.
The speaker’s smarts are obviously powered by theGoogle Assistant, and there’s nothing new there. It does all the same things the Google Home does, or the new Nest Mini does. You can ask it to play music, tell you the weather or your commute to work among a bunch of other things. You know, everything the older Google Home can also do. It just looks better while it does it.
Google has priced the Nest Audio at $99, which pits it right against the also newly announcedorb-like Echo speaker. So you get to choose between Alexa and the Google Assistant, along with the different shapes of the speakers. The speaker will be available from October 5th.
