Still the world's most popular smart speaker (by a landslide), the original Amazon Echo can be yours (likely for a limited time) at the low price of $130.
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We still have no name, price, release date or real-life pics for HP's upcoming smart Cortana speaker, but we know it connects to Windows 10 PCs.
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Priced at £129 a pop, the previously US-only Google Home smart speaker and Google Wifi router are officially launching on British shores next week.
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Okay, Google is now outright making fools of those who rushed to purchase the Mountain View search giant’s Amazon Echo “killer” at its $129 introductory price.
Not only is the Google Assistant-powered Google Home slated to cost just $99 at Best Buy starting tomorrow, November 23, but the actual Google Store, plus Target and Walmart, are today confirmed to be prepping $30 “limited-time” discounts of their own.
This way, you can be sure there will be more than a few hundred smart speakers on sale nationwide, though it’s probably still wise to hurry and get your online or offline order in before the major retail quartet runs out of marked-down inventory.
Remember, you’re looking at a voice-activated, two-way conversational home automation hub here, capable of commanding audio services like Google Play Music, Spotify or Pandora, as well as browsing the web for quick answers to your hands-free questions, retrieving flight information, setting alarms and timers, alerting you of unusual traffic on the way to work, and of course, controlling smart light bulbs, plugs, switches, thermostats and so on.
Even at $100, Google Home also comes with six complimentary months of YouTube Red ad-free video streaming. But is all that enough to contend the soon-to-be-$140 Amazon Echo this “gift giving” season?
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When Google introduced the aptly named voice-enabled Google Home wireless speaker to the world at the I/O developers’ conference back in May, we only got a general idea of how the Amazon Echo rival would eventually work.And while it sounded largely familiar and thus easy enough to grasp for anyone that’s ever heard of or interacted ...
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Talk about perfect timing. Just as we were trying to make heads or tails of one of the FCC’s most enigmatic Apple product filings in recent history, the always knowledgeable Bloomberg was quoting “people familiar with the matter” as suggesting the Cupertino development of an “Echo-like smart-home device” is nearing completion.So, yeah, what we assumed to be the fifth-generation Apple TV with 4K support receiving regulatohry approval may actually materialize as a home automation hub “based on ...
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Google wants a piece of the Amazon-controlled smart speaker action, the latter in turn plans to go after Apple and Spotify in the uber-challenging, jam-packed music streaming ...
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Whether your house is rocking a smart thermostat, lighting control, or any number of other connected-home technologies, you’re likely using your smartphone to interact with all this gear. And while that’s a pretty ideal fit, you don’t always want to tie your phone up with that kind of remote-control duty. For users looking to enhance their collection of connected-home tech with an easy, central control solution, or maybe get started for the first time with a ready-to-use-out-of-the-box kit, the Sevenhugs Smart Remote might be right up their alley. This week we checked in ...
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We have smart phones. We have smart cars. Some of us even have smart homes – but the smart homes of yesterday usually have to be professionally wired and programmed. Thanks to modern technology, the capabilities of smart homes are changing, and the interoperability of devices with each other, and controllability from our smartphones and tablets is finally within reach of the average person.Unfortunately, all these different components that go into a smart home are fairly disconnected from each other. We rely on services like IF (formerly IFTTT) and apps like Tasker to build recipes ...
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