Customers are delighted by the Home Mini's sound quality, ease of use, and compact size. Many appreciate its affordability and the helpfulness of the Google Assistant, along with its seamless setup and smart home integration capabilities. The positive feedback highlights the device's overall user-friendliness and value. However, some users express disappointment with the lack of Bluetooth speaker functionality.
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Pros mentioned:
Ease of use
Rated 4 out of 5 stars
Excellent product out of the box
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Amazing and inexpensive tool for a busy lifestyle.
This review is from Home Mini (1st Generation) - Smart Speaker with Google Assistant - Chalk
I would recommend this to a friend
Pros mentioned:
Sound quality
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Google Mini
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Posted . Owned for 1.5 years when reviewed.
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Love the Google Mini, have 3 google mini's and a google home. Use them to listen to music, and turn lights on and off.
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I would recommend this to a friend
Rated 4 out of 5 stars
Great for home automation.
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I use it with insignia products and it works great
This review is from Home Mini (1st Generation) - Smart Speaker with Google Assistant - Charcoal
I would recommend this to a friend
Pros mentioned:
Ease of use
Rated 4 out of 5 stars
Great product
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I use it mostly to turn on and off my smart bulbs.
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I would recommend this to a friend
Rated 4 out of 5 stars
Great gift
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Easy to use and set up. Works well with base unit.
This review is from Home Mini (1st Generation) - Smart Speaker with Google Assistant - Chalk
I would recommend this to a friend
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
I didnt think i would like it as much as i did
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Posted . Owned for 1 month when reviewed.
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i was initially against the google home / alexis stuff but once i got one for my bedroom (along with smart lights), now I love these things. I have one in my bedroom, bathroom, kitchen, living room, office, and both kids rooms.
Hooked up spotify to listen to music through this. I put the smart lights in the main living areas and these controls them all.
A great feature is the broadcast message feature. If dinner is done, I can broadcast a message to all rooms "dinner is done" and everyone in the house hears it.
Another good feature is that I can call one mini hub from another. I haven't mastered this yet because sometimes it tries to call one of my contacts instead. Actually that literally would be my only complaint. if I said call 'nates room speaker', and it decides to call a person from my contacts, I cant cancel in time... it will ring my contact before i get a chance to say "ok google hang up". a solution would be an option where it repeats your call request and wants a yes /no reply... i.e., hub will confirm like this: "call nates room speaker? say yes if this is correct".
I actually should take a star away for that one issue because I don't call hub to hub anymore just because of that - but everything else is so good I will just leave it and figure out on my own what i can do to not call contacts.
This review is from Home Mini (1st Generation) - Smart Speaker with Google Assistant - Chalk
I would recommend this to a friend
Pros mentioned:
Sound quality
Rated 4 out of 5 stars
Great sound
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Good quality sound for a big room. Has lag issues.
This review is from Home Mini (1st Generation) - Smart Speaker with Google Assistant - Charcoal
I would recommend this to a friend
Pros mentioned:
Sound quality
Rated 4 out of 5 stars
Great little speaker
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Great little speaker. Works well with google home.
This review is from Home Mini (1st Generation) - Smart Speaker with Google Assistant - Charcoal
I would recommend this to a friend
Pros mentioned:
Sound quality
Rated 4 out of 5 stars
Nice product
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Nice sound and very interesting too.Will buy again
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I would recommend this to a friend
Rated 4 out of 5 stars
Easy installation for a beginner.
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I love it! It is easy to use and fun to play with.
This review is from Home Mini (1st Generation) - Smart Speaker with Google Assistant - Chalk
I would recommend this to a friend
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Size
Rated 4 out of 5 stars
Compact And lovely
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I like this item, Its nice and compact ..Nice one.
This review is from Home Mini (1st Generation) - Smart Speaker with Google Assistant - Chalk
I would recommend this to a friend
Pros mentioned:
Sound quality
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Gotta love the Google Home Mini
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We have a Google home and 3 minis scattered around our home and love them all. Easy to set up and despite its size a decent speaker,
This review is from Home Mini (1st Generation) - Smart Speaker with Google Assistant - Charcoal
I would recommend this to a friend
Pros mentioned:
Ease of use
Rated 4 out of 5 stars
BEST ever
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Very useful and fast and easy to setup works great
This review is from Home Mini (1st Generation) - Smart Speaker with Google Assistant - Chalk
I would recommend this to a friend
Pros mentioned:
Sound quality
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Excellent economic gift!
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Posted . Owned for 7 months when reviewed.
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Google products are amazing! Got this as a gift and they absolutely loved it! Great volume and quality!
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I would recommend this to a friend
Pros mentioned:
Ease of use
Rated 4 out of 5 stars
Questionable
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It is easy to use great to have for a small room .
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I would recommend this to a friend
Pros mentioned:
Sound quality
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Love my new google mini
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I am so happy with my google mini purchase. It is the perfect volume/loudness for my living room and kitchen and has great sound quality
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I would recommend this to a friend
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Best product from Google this year!
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Great bang for your buck. Google Home Mini does just about everything the Google Home can do -- the speakers are definitely louder on the Google Home but if you're not an audiophile you won't really be able to tell the difference.
This review is from Home Mini (1st Generation) - Smart Speaker with Google Assistant - Charcoal
I would recommend this to a friend
Pros mentioned:
Sound quality
Cons mentioned:
Bluetooth
Rated 3 out of 5 stars
Good, not perfect
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I like the Google Home Mini. However, having owned both this and the Amazon Echo Dot, I would recommend the Dot. The Google Home Mini is not quite as intuitive when it comes to smart home integration and "skills". Until just recently, there was no easy way to determine exactly what this thing could do, I also experience more disconnects with this than I do with my Amazon Echo Dot. The sound on this speaker is better from the device itself, however it cannot connect to a bluetooth speaker if you intend to listen to it for music. Overall, it's useful, but it's just not there yet.
This review is from Home Mini (1st Generation) - Smart Speaker with Google Assistant - Charcoal
No, I would not recommend this to a friend
Rated 4 out of 5 stars
Helpful Solution
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We have a Google Home in our living room and bought this for upstairs. Found it is pretty much the same as the Google Home, but missing the dial on the top. Overall it is pretty good, but I do feel like it has had a few more moments where it says it cannot help me or repeat my question than I got from the Google Home.
This review is from Home Mini (1st Generation) - Smart Speaker with Google Assistant - Charcoal
I would recommend this to a friend
Pros mentioned:
Ease of use, Sound quality
Rated 4 out of 5 stars
Big bang in a small puck.
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Very easy to setup and start using this device right out of the box. Performs above my expectations. I would like the sound to be a little better, but given the size, it still over performs.
This review is from Home Mini (1st Generation) - Smart Speaker with Google Assistant - Charcoal