Lenovo - 8" Smart Display with Google Assistant - White Front/Gray Back

I purchased this during the Black Friday promotion for $99. I used points and a gift card to get the price down to $59.99. I think that is a good deal. I really am enjoying the google assistant features. I also like being able to ask google to cast music to my Sony sound bar. I don’t like that when I ask google to play next song or what song is playing it does not know unless I ask what is playing on my sound bar or specifically ask it to play next song on my sound bar. I have the Insignia google assistant portable speaker which is excellent and I don’t have to specifically ask to skip song on sound bar or what is playing on sound bar. That speaker just knows it is casting to that device automatically. It does know what song is playing when asked if you are playing music through the built in speaker. My WiFi has gone out twice in a few months time and the Insignia google assistant speaker re connected automatically when the router came back online. My Lenovo google assistant did not reconnect automatically when my router just went out again recently. I don’t think it has an off switch to re set it. I ended up unplugging it and plugging it back in to re set the WiFi connection. I am using this as an alarm clock and if I hadn’t woken up at about 3:30 am and noticed the white screen saying to reconnect to WiFi I am assuming the alarm would not have gone off. I am hesitant to trust this as an alarm now. The Insignia speaker clock also goes blank when WiFi is lost and I am assuming that alarm would not go off either but at least it reconnects to WiFi automatically. I think google should not require to have WiFi at all times for something as simple as the alarm clock feature. I am still giving this four stars though because when it works its very useful with providing almost instant answers to your questions. It’s amazing how quickly these google assistant devices are able to search the various internet sources and provide an answer. The single speaker is ok but not as good as the Insignia portable. That allows you to adjust bass and treble with the google home app. This Lenovo display doesn’t. I think they should have made it with a speaker on each side of the screen to double the output power. I guess they just wanted to make it more compact for a night stand which this is great for! The screen is a nice feature to be able to see multiple alarms or timers that have been set. Just be weary of possible unreliable alarms if your WiFi goes out on occasion. Also nice to see either your personal google photos collection or the default photos provided from various categories like fine art, earth, etc.

We have had the original Google Home for over 2 years, to which we’ve added 5 minis, a Google Home Hub, and many smart plugs, multicolor smart lights, and other IOT devices, including a smart diffuser, but this is our latest purchase. We initially purchased the Google Home Hub for the kitchen, but it truthfully works better in the bedroom as a night stand Hub. This device works better for the kitchen, especially with the larger screen, the more features, and the video calling. The Google Home Hub has many things going in its favor, but this is definitely the better choice for the kitchen.

Device works great. Can give me the day's weather, traffic, and top news all by saying "Good Morning". Also plays my Pandora by saying "Play Pandora (and type of music)" when not in use it displays current time or can display pictures from album of you choice. Over all great.

Great smart display, the look is very modern. I wasn't a fan of the black borders so I purchased a white skin which made it much sleeker with a completely white front. The speakers on this are better than the hub and the screen size is so much better for the kitchen as the hub was just a bit too small.

I was deciding to buy google hub but this was better than google hub with ability to have physical shutter for the camera and bigger and better screen with the ability to go into portrait mode. I definitely prefer this more than google home hub. Arrived in good condition and got on a Black Friday deal for 99. Just worth every penny

Both of these are Christmas gifts so nothing has been used yet, hoping for the best. Again, don't reveal the Christmas surprise. Merry Christmas everyone.

I had to take my first hub back because it was DOA from the box. But, once I got a working model, setup was easy and it works great.

Excellent display good screen definition and big sound works great with the Google assistant