Customer Ratings & Reviews

The 2nd generation Google Nest Hub is a great device that provides access to your smart home and can also give insights into personal wellness using the new sleep tracking feature. The great thing about this device is that it comes with a host of features built all into one device. It provides all the functionality of a Google Nest Mini or Nest Audio being a smart speaker that you can control with your voice and has all that Google Assistant goodness. With that, you can also play music through this device (Spotify, Pandora, YouTube, Deezer, Apple Music) and what’s really cool is that if you have more than one Google Nest Smart Speaker device, you can group them together to play music on numerous devices at once. As a smart display, you can watch Netflix, Disney+, Hulu, and a host of other video streaming apps on its 7 inch display, as well as display photos through Google Photos. It also provides access to your home video cameras if you have those set up, and these don’t necessarily need to be Nest cameras. I use Arlo cameras and they integrate perfectly fine using the Google Home app. It has a touchscreen display but this is probably the only area where there could be some improvement…and I’m being a little nit-picky with this but it’s really the only thing I noticed that wasn’t amazing. Touches are responsive and tapping areas of the display work well but with swipe gestures, which generally switch screens, the display doesn’t keep up as well. When you swipe, it may take a moment before the interface actually changes screens. In general it’s not a big deal and it’s not like I use this device for lengthy amounts of time like an iPad but just don’t expect something as responsive as a tablet. The newest feature which comes with this device is Sleep Sensing and this works very well. You’ll go through a short setup process providing some details about your sleep schedule which takes a couple minutes. And that’s it. It just automatically tracks your sleep from there providing you with how long you’ve slept, the time when you went to bed as well as how long you were in bed before you fell asleep, what time you woke up, if you woke up in the middle of the night, and then even more advanced stuff like respiratory rate, how many times you coughed, minutes snored, and the room temperature and how much light there was in the room. I compared these stats with a watch that has sleep tracking and it was astoundingly accurate. Very cool stuff and this information will also be synced over to Google Fit if you happen to use that app for tracking health and wellness. For $99, I think this device is easily worth it since it packs in so many features all in one.

Google home works great. Great picture and love the fact that you can make video calls. And look at vidoes.

I definitely needed a good alarm cock but this gadget is so much more. I have integrated the hub into my google home system. Really handy!!

I bought this as for the bedroom to add to a couple 1st gen Hubs around the house. The sound was improved, new colors are nice. But Sleep Sense feature was a fail. It would claim I only slept for 1 hour or so, when was more like 7.5. I think if you sleep on your side, or you have a comforter covering you, then the radar sensor often can’t detect your presence. So had to return it, since that was my main reason for getting it.

It is a really helpful tool to have in the common area of our apartment. I really like the digital photo album that you can set up. If it is on sale, I think it is worth it.

This is a great assistant that can be used as a music speaker, digital photo frame or to watch TV/movies.

Got this for my mom and she watches the weather frog all day everyday! Doesn’t use it for any other function

Love this little hub. Haven’t used it to it’s full capabilities but looking forward to exploring in 2023

It’s ok but the lack of lt being able to install more apps on the device is absolutely ridiculous. Google needs to add the ability to install more apps.

Easy to set up. Google Assistant maintains its superiority to all other voice recognition technologies.

This device work perfectly with my other device. Easy Voice recog/command. Broadcast feature awesome

Works way less functionaly than the 1st Generation, too bad that 1st generation stopped working. Seems the old one listened and did what I told it the 1st time!

This is a great gift that you can give anyone who is looking to understand how smart devices work.

I think they’re neat. I use it for casting YouTube and music, alarms, productivity, etc. The only thing that sucks is that it doesn’t have sleep sense on this one.

Great product I love it and I highly recommend it and i bought another one because I love so much a

Great product I have to at this point and love the integration between them and the smart products.

Absolutely the best digital picture frame and music player around, especially if you use Google apps.

I switched from the echo show 5 to this and I want amazon back this thing isn’t loud enough I just can’t get myself to like it as much as the amazon devices

Lacking the opportunity to customize it as needed. Google should hire me for a better product

I use it all the time for telling me the time when I don’t have a watch on me! It’s great for bedrooms.