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.
This summary was generated by AI based on customer reviews.
The vast majority of our reviews come from verified purchases. Reviews from customers may include My Best Buy members, employees, and Tech Insider Network members (as tagged). Select reviewers may receive discounted products, promotional considerations or entries into drawings for honest, helpful reviews.
Page 1087 Showing 21,721-21,740 of 21,880 reviews
Rated 1 out of 5 stars
Mimi
|
|
Posted .
This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.
Not working with Wi-Fi trying everything downloading app
No, I would not recommend this to a friend
Rated 1 out of 5 stars
Cool
|
|
Posted .
This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.
Cool and. Fun I love it .........
.................. Thanks
This review is from Home Mini (1st Generation) - Smart Speaker with Google Assistant - Charcoal
I would recommend this to a friend
Rated 1 out of 5 stars
Broken before install
|
|
Posted .
This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.
Product was defected upon purchase and had to be returned.
No, I would not recommend this to a friend
Pros mentioned:
Sound quality
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Great product, great price!
Posted .
This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.
I love my Google Home Mini. I have purchased several devices and at a low price I am able to speak to and control my whole house. I control my lights, my TV, some of my appliances and even my fan with it. I can play/pause music everywhere in my house. I can play Stranger Things on my TV through voice! It also provides great answers to all my questions, I believe it must give the same answers as Google.com. Overall - great purchase.
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
Almost perfect
Posted .
This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.
The Home Mini is a great addition to Google's line of Google Assistent-powered products. The speaker is better than its nearest competitor, the Amazon Echo Dot. Voice responses are loud and clear. Music sounds fine at lower levels, but the quality drops as the volume increases (typical of speakers in this price range). It makes a great desk speaker. The only thing keeping it from a 5-star rating is the lack of an audio-out option, like what the Echo Dot has.
I would recommend this to a friend
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Skeptical at First, Amazing Shortly After!
Posted .
This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.
Going into my purchase of the Google Home Mini, I initially did not think it was something that I would use. I was so wrong after seeing the capability of the devices. Given that I already had several smart home devices in the house, this was the piece that connected it all together. I can continue working on what I am doing without having to pick up my phone. Additionally, it syncs with my phone. Perfect!
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
Better than expected
Posted .
This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.
After using a Google Home Mini for a month, I found it as functional as an Amazon Echo, but for a much more palatable price. Wished there was better G Suite integration (like seeing your calendar for the day), but there's plenty that works. Regular Gmail users (that's you, probably) won't have any missing features.
Does the Mini sound good? Not as good as a full Echo, and won't impress audiophiles, but it sure sounds better than most notebook speakers. I use it to play music in a small room and it's fine.
I would recommend this to a friend
Pros mentioned:
Sound quality
Rated 4 out of 5 stars
Not bad, but could be better
Posted .
This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.
Google home doesn't quite have the same product compatibility that Amazon's Alexa devices do. Hopefully this will only get better. The sound from the device is reasonably good and is very comparable to the echo dot. Apparently the top was designed to be a button, but google has disabled that. It would be great to see them re-enable that or give some sort of compensation to the owners who are left without that functionality. That was a very useful way to turn off alarms and timers that has been removed.
I would recommend this to a friend
Pros mentioned:
Sound quality
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Perfect
Posted .
This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.
I bought this 2 days ago and i love it, its sound is great for its size, picks up my voice and my voice only(bc i set it to mine). I got it to use in my bedroom and i have no regrets. It will even pick up my voice when i slur the words or talk with a southern accent. It’s an overall good product and I recommend to all!
This review is from Home Mini (1st Generation) - Smart Speaker with Google Assistant - Charcoal
I would recommend this to a friend
Pros mentioned:
Size, Sound quality
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Fun Little Device
Posted .
This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.
Google Home is a nice little device that works well. It has a wide host of things it can do, from the simplest questions to what's the weather, to controlling your smart home. This device can do it all.
The design is quite nice, the device is pretty small in footprint and sits nicely on top of anything or on the corner of a desk/table.
The sound quality is pretty good for a smaller device. On a scale of 1-10 ten being the best possible sound, this would be about an 8. Very good sound quality for the price.
All in all, this is a cool little device that can help you stay organized, entertain you, or help answer simple questions. Definitely recommend.
I would recommend this to a friend
Pros mentioned:
Sound quality
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Very satisfied with the Google Home Mini
Posted .
This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.
I've bought both the Google Home Mini and Echo Dot and after a day of comparison, Google H Mini seemed way better in terms of sound quality at max volume and answers. Google H Mini is definitely the winner! Great discounted price as well, got three of them!
I would recommend this to a friend
Pros mentioned:
Sound quality
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
best home device for the price
Posted .
This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.
The item blends in into any room. The sound quality is surprisingly nice too. Its currently on sale $29.99. For the price its the best you can get. I highly recommend this product.
I would recommend this to a friend
Pros mentioned:
Size
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Loving my mini
Posted .
This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.
I debated between the mini and the dot and decided to go with the mini and so glad I did. I've only had it for a few hours and am already so obsessed with it!
I would recommend this to a friend
Pros mentioned:
Ease of use, Sound quality
Rated 4 out of 5 stars
Great to Have at home
Posted .
This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.
I got the Google Home mini for Christmas and I love it. I have one in my basement and one in my living room/kitchen area. I love using it to play my music while I'm cooking or to turn on a show using my ChromeCast, without ever having to pick up my phone and wasting my phone's charge. The only downside is that it is still "learning" so if I ask it questions, it often cannot answer. But it's a minor downfall when you think about the great quality speakers and other components.
I would recommend this to a friend
Pros mentioned:
Sound quality
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
LOVE MY GOOGLE
Posted .
This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.
This thing is WAY better than Alexa. Compared to google, the Alexa is useless. I love my google. I have a Beats Pill speaker and I still use my google instead of that. The speaker on the google is pretty awesome. It can do anything I ask. It linked seamlessly to my Spotify account and can play/do whatever I ask! I would highly recommend!!!
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 5 out of 5 stars
Great mini assistant; surprisingly useful
Posted .
This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.
I bought on it sale to see what it could do. Having had experience only with Apple’s fairly ignorant Siri, I was initially skeptical. Well, I’m not anymore. This sets up so easily with the Google Home app on your smartphone. It connects easily to your WiFi network. It’s voice recognition rarely fails. Questions you ask it usually produce useful results, though it will occasionally go off on a slightly unrelated tangent. It controls my Philips Smart TV quite well, with the frustration being that it can’t turn it on or off. It won’t play YouTube music to itself since I don’t have a paymium account but it will to the TV. That’s a slight bummer since I have to use a remote to turn the TV on or off. I bought a second one after being pleased with the first. It can’t control a Samsung UHD TV without a ChromeCast 4K that I haven’t got yet. That makes the nice smart features of the TV redundant, but is probably worth it so this little device can control it that way.
After seeing how nice this is, I’ll probably be getting more smart devices for my home so this can control them. My only concern might be how vulnerable ones home might become to external hacking.
This review is from Home Mini (1st Generation) - Smart Speaker with Google Assistant - Coral
I would recommend this to a friend
Pros mentioned:
Sound quality
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Made the echo dot look like a joke
Posted .
This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.
I had bought a Google Home Mini as a entirely experimental gift along with a amazon echo dot just to play around with them and have some fun. I absolutely love the minis smooth round hockey puck design and I barely had to raise my voice for it to hear me over music. It also was compatible with all my existing smart home devices. The sound quality was also so much better than the echo dots so I feel that there is no need to have the mini connected to a external speaker. Also the google home app is much more user friendly than the Alexa app. The Google assistants second voice sounds better and more natural then Alexa's voice. It is also smarter. The only thing I wish the Google Home Mini had is when the four LED's on the top would come on they would be blue, red, green, and yellow like they are when you plug it in and like the full sized Google Home and not white but it doesn't matter that much to me. All in all I think the Google Home is a wonderful device to have and is certainly worth the $50. However the same cannot be said about the echo dot. To me it seems like it is worth $20 and not $50
I would recommend this to a friend
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Perfect addition to the family.
Posted .
This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.
Was excited when this was announced at the beginning of this month but buying it was worth the money. I have two full size Google Homes one in my living room one in the bedroom, we also use phillips hue lights i bought this for my daughters room so she can control the lights and tv as well perfect purchase, ive caught my 8 year old playing trivia totally worth it!! Will be buying a few this Christmas for in-laws and parents.
This review is from Home Mini (1st Generation) - Smart Speaker with Google Assistant - Charcoal
I would recommend this to a friend
Rated 4 out of 5 stars
Music pauses/ Can’t hear me
Posted .
This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.
We replaced our Alexa with google home mini because we thought it was better suited for our needs. We love our Google home but so far have had a lot of trouble with playing music through Spotify. (Not sure who’s at fault) Songs pause (buffer) constantly which makes it very annoying when trying to listen to music. Our google home is only 10 ft away from our couch and in a silent room it cannot hear me when speaking in a normal tone. We have to yell. So far we have plugged our Alexa back in to play music through. Hoping either Spotify or google resolve this issue.
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 5 out of 5 stars
Great product
Posted .
This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.
Gave my Amazon Echo & Dots away. Easier to use and the minis sound better than the dots....