Overall Rating:

8/10

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Just before we jump straight into the deep end of our Google Home Mini Hands-Free Smart Speaker review, we thought you might like to have a quick read of how the seller, John Lewis chooses to describe this item in the description: Keeps you informed and up to date: Instant news, weather and commute updates without lifting a finger. Master the kitchen: Helps you with timers, step-by-step recipes, and conversions and substitutes. Start your smart home: Always improving with seamless connections to the latest compatible smart lights and thermostats.* Bring the power of Google and the convenience of voice-interaction into the living room with the Google Home Mini hands-free smart speaker. Powered by Google Assistant, you can ask it questions, and tell it to do things. And with support for multiple users, it can distinguish your voice from others in your home so you get a more personalised experience**. It’s your own Google, always ready to help. Just start by saying Ok Google. Built-in far-field microphones ensure it will always hear and respond. Get Answers from Google Just by using your voice, get the latest weather, traffic, finance, news, sports and more. Ask for things like translations, calculations, nutrition information and unit conversions. Or find other information that you’re curious about with the power of Google Search, Maps, and more, built right in. Hey Google, will I need an umbrella today? No, rain is not expected today. Manage Your Day Get personalised help managing your schedule, commute and more whenever Google Home Mini recognises your voice** (with your permission, of course). Plus, use it to set alarms, timers and reminders and listen to news and radio stations. Hey Google, wake me up at 6AM tomorrow. Got it, your alarm’s set for 6AM. Hey Google, what time’s my first meeting? Play, Pause and Rewind, Hands-free Control compatible entertainment hands-free from the comfort of your sofa. Google Home Mini works with your Chromecast so that you can start streaming shows, movies and music from compatible content providers on your TV or speakers with just your voice.*** Hey Google, play The Crown from Netflix. Control Your Smart Home Use your voice to control compatible smart lights, thermostats, switches and more from your favourite home automation systems like Philips Hue, Nest and Samsung SmartThings. Hey Google, dim the lights in the kitchen. You got it, turning off kitchen lights. Google Home App Download the free Google Home App (available on iOS and Android) onto your smart device for easy set-up and control. Please note this app is required to operate Google Home Mini. Google Home Mini is compatible with Nest, Philips Hue, Hive, Samsung SmartThings, IFTTT, TP-Link, Spotify, Google Play, TuneIn, Youtube, Netflix, Google Photos, Google Chromecast, Philips, Sony and more.*** *Controlling your thermostat requires a compatible smart thermostat and controlling your lights requires compatible smart lights. **Even if you’re using Multi-user and Google Home Mini is meant to recognise your voice, keep in mind that a voice similar to yours, or a recording of your voice, could result in Google incorrectly recognising someone else as you. ***Google Home Mini is optimised for selected compatible music and video services only. Subscriptions/payments may be required. Controlling your TV requires a Chromecast. Please note: A Smart Speaker is a platform that can run 3rd party Apps. 3rd party content providers may remove Apps from the Smart platform or stop supporting them at any time, and we cannot guarantee an App’s availability. When new Smart products are launched, there may also be a delay before certain Apps become available. Availability of Apps is not included within the terms of the manufacturer’s warranty, or the John Lewis 2-year Guarantee for audio visual products, or the 5-year Guarantee for TVs.. As you will have undoubtedly come to expect of products from John Lewis, you can certainly rely on the fact that you will be getting a high quality product, that will offer a very decent shelf life, why not visit John Lewis’s website for details of their own product warranty, these are usually offered with all of their wide range of items available to buy online.

Google Home Mini Hands-Free Smart Speaker detailed review

We have a rigid process in place for all of our reviews and we always make sure that we search the web to find the lowest possible price for items like the Google Home Mini Hands-Free Smart Speaker, what that means is that we are saving you lots of time, so you don’t need to be searching around the internet for the best deal. Our research found the best online price available for the Google Home Mini Hands-Free Smart Speaker was the insanely low 49, and the online retailer that offers this bargain price was the infamous John Lewis, this also means that you buy it confidently in the knowledge that you are getting a fantastic product from perhaps the best known online retailer that the UK has to offer.

Getting started with our top to bottom product review for the Google Home Mini Hands-Free Smart Speaker, which can be identified by John Lewis’s following unique code 237166745. This individual product is suited to a massive range of consumers, and as part of our patented product trial, we can confirm a very high performance against all of our Audio Equipment tests. If you’re checking this review out from a location outside of the United Kingdom then you will need to know the European article number, a unique identifying number which is sometimes called the EAN, for this item it is 21198778413. Why not use this unique number to look up product ratings in your local area to ensure it is compatible before you purchase it.

Of course, with so many customer reviews readily available for this item, we recognise that you came to us because you wanted to hear an expert opinion in the category of Audio Equipment, so before you make up your mind and commit to purchasing this item, have a read of the following information. In addition to some of our helpful opinions given in this product review, we thought it might be useful to collate some some real world user reviews from different areas in the UK. We are thrilled to let you know that we found a massive 33 reviews for the Google Home Mini Hands-Free Smart Speaker and out of a wide range of people that bought the item and tested it out for themselves, the average rating was a hugely impressive 8 out of 10.

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Summary review of the Google Home Mini Hands-Free Smart Speaker

Following quite a few hours and 315 Audio Equipment reviews undertaken by The Review Shop over the last few months, we really enjoyed getting to test and live with the Google Home Mini Hands-Free Smart Speaker. In actual fact, this could well be one of our favourite products to come from John Lewis in recent times, and that is even more impressive when you consider that we have tested over 25 of their products over the last few months! If you are not convinced already that this is the right bit of kit to suit your needs, then we recommend the ‘See all reviews’ button at the top of the page to get a bit of validation from some like minded buyers and once you have seen first hand some of the best features of this product, we think you will be pretty keen to visit John Lewis’s website and order it before they run out of stock.

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Google Home Mini Hands-Free Smart SpeakerWritten by: The Review Shop
Rating: 8 out of 10