Customer Ratings & Reviews

Works good and works as described but major feature missing. It would be great if you could use it as an intercom like the Alexa can be used. The broadcast message is nice but all units in the network get the broadcast.

Great concept but anything to do with recognizing voices or accessing any other account etc have to ask it ten times to do anything like that. I keep reprogramming my voice but nothing helps. Called Google a few times and nothing.

The google mini is great for the price but takes some time to learn your voice. I’ve had to repeat the voice setup numerous times. I wouldn’t recommend to use as your only source to play music but everything else works very well.

Good product. Nice in the beginning. After you have it for a year or so, it’s listening ability slows down. Sometimes you might have to give up. I hope life of the product is focused as well in new versions.

I bought it as a gift for Christmas for a relative. I think I might get one for myself some day if I can figure out how it works. I have been told I can't have one because I don't have a smart phone or an I Pad.

I use this primarily for virtual google commands like hue lights, news, weather. big issue with this is bluetooth connection drops everytime - so buy if you're thinking of wireless speaker.

It was a cool toy, but I didn’t really use it. I’m sure if you had all the gadgets in your house that responds to it, it would definitely be worth it. I took mine back, maybe some day I will revisit it, if my needs change.

Google, Alexa, gold jacket, green jacket, who gives a $hi+. Very little differentiation between brands and products. If you like one, you are bound to like the other. A classic Pepsi vs Coke situation.

We love all of our Google minis but wish the Google technology allowed these devices to work like intercoms instead of as a broadcast message. Disappointed that Amazon has this capability and Google does not.

I have purchased this for my son for school. Unfortunately you cannot use these at college. So I took home and connected it. The echo Response to more commands.

This device is a great smart speaker, although I would recommend spending a few dollars extra for the Nest Mini(2nd Generation) for the added features and better sound quality.

The main reason I purchased this was because I have a Sony TV with Chromecast built in. I wanted to be able to turn my TV on with my voice and thought for sure this would be compatible. Boy was I wrong. It will not turn on TVs with built in Chromecast. I will turn it on and start playing Youtube videos, but only if you say play cat videos on Youtube on the TV. Not sure why I can't just turn the TV on.

Got this as a gift. I already had a number of Echo devices. Candidly, the Google mini is not as good as Alexa. It is less intuitive and seems to require more setup to retrieve fairly basic information.

I really went in there to buy the Phillips hue lighting system, which is awesome by the way. Unfortunately, I was led to believe that I would need the Google assistant to make it work and that’s not true.

Google system is good for information and minor things..the only music u can listen to r only some stations...i ask to listen to slow jams on I heart and said i don't understand it ...so it needs some more tweaking

Bought it for my daughters bedrooom and it worked great initially then started clashing and interfering with other devices that we have set up at home

Got this as a free item with purchase of a NEST. I do like my two Alexes so maybe this will be a winner also. But do I need different ones? More of a question than a review but will see if this is a winner.

I have been playing around with both the google home mini and the Amazon echo dot for a while. about the only thing I preferred the echo over the mini was that the echo picks up you voice better and at greater distance than the mini. probably due to the 7 mic array of the echo vs the 2 of the mini. the google mini wins in many other areas. 1. natural speech. Google has been gathering data points for years, as a result their speech recognition is excellent. you can speak very naturally with the google home, with Alexa you have to be more precise. also, google allows the creations of shortcuts, basically you can assign a short phrase for otherwise lengthy commands. good example is controlling my harmony hub. if you want to turn off you system (pressing off on remote) you would have to say "hey google, tell harmony to turn off the entertainment system". with a shortcut, you would just have to say "hey google, turn off the tv". in the next release of the google software you will be able to create "routines". basically a shortcut that performs multiple commands. example, "hey google, good night" and it would turn off the tv and the lights etc... 2. voice identification. this is a good feature if you have kids or are concerned about security. also allows for personalized playlist, calendars etc... I found it too restrictive, about 10% of the time it would not recognize my voice and I would have to repeat several times. 3. automation. I think this would depend on the devices you are using. for me the big 2 were the Nest thermostat and the harmony hub remote. echo will adjust the temp on the Nest, but it seemed to have issues if you were in Heat/cool mode as oppose to either heat or cool. with google it will not only set the temp, you can distinguish which temp, ie. heat/cool mode you can say set the heat to 74 or set the cool to 76, you can also ask what the current setting are, change between heat/cool mode, set to away mode etc.. with the harmony hub, echo could turn off the system, change channels "sometimes" and start activities. google, will do all that plus pause, play, channel up or down, volume up or down, mute, unmute.

I normally use this for basic questions like the weather, traffic, news, math, etc. Questions need to be "high level", meaning it won't tell you mass times or store hours that aren't fully flushed out in google.

Works as intended. The second generation has much better audio quality if you're planning on playing music. The price is nearly identical or just a few bucks more.