Google has finally launched its Google Home and Google Home Mini speakers in India. Google had introduced it’s Google Home smart speaker back in October 2016 and mini last year, and as promised Google has finally launched them in India.
Google Home is a speaker that works on Google assistance and can do a number of things right from playing music, managing task and answering questions asked through voice commands. The only thing expected to activate this is by just saying “Ok Google”.
The hardware on the Home comes with a speaker featuring a 2-inch driver and dual passive radiators on the sides. On the top, there is a touch panel with LED’s which can help in adjusting different settings and call up the Assistant.
Google Home Mini, is the compact version of its larger brother Google Home which sports fabric speaker grill and the plastic thing at its base. The Mini also comes with LED lights on the top. Coming with a price tag of Rs. 9999 and Rs. 4499, will be exclusively available on Flipkart and chain of offline retailers including Reliance Digital, Croma, Vijay Sales, Poorvika and Sangeetha. Home will be made available in Chalk colour now and will come in Coral soon, while the Home Mini is available in Chalk and Charcoal colours.
Both Google Assistance comes with a bunch of offers
•The device purchased on Flipkart will come with free JioFi router
•Six months of free Google Play Music
•Gaana Plus and Saavn Pro subscription for 18 months
•The device purchased from MyJio stores or Reliance Digital will get a free JioFi router with 100GB of free high-speed 4G data ( Offer valid till 30th April 2018 )
•Google Home Mini will come with Philips Hue if brought from Croma outlets at a special bundled price.
•ACT Fibernet clients buying into a year of propelling rental designs of 90MBPS or more will get a Google Home Mini.
•10% cashback when purchased using HDFC credit cards.
Stay tuned as we review the Google Home and Google Home Mini soon.
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Finally, Alexa has got some serious competition.
Thanks for this. This was a much awaited launch.
I purchased the Google Home Mini and its Awesome.
Is it worth buying this still? There is newer variant available in market.
Great AI devices from Google. Good to see them in India.