Hands-on: Google Home Mini and Max sound like good ideas

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by Sindy Cator on October 5, 2017 at 12:33 am

Posted In: Around the Web, Gadgets, Google, Insider

On the same day that Sonos announces a speaker with Alexa and (in 2018) Google Assistant support, Google announces a speaker that behaves a lot like a Sonos. Go figure. I had the chance to try out Google’s new Home Mini (a tiny Echo Dot competitor) and Max (the Sonos-like hi-fi speaker) during today’s Pixel 2 event. They’re the clearest signs Google is serious about getting the Assistant in your home, whatever way it can. Let’s start with the Mini. It costs just $49, is unobtrusively small, and comes in charcoal, grey, and coral fabric-lined colors. It’s meant to be…