Google Home, Home Mini smart speakers were unveiled on the last Tuesday at an event in New Delhi, India. The larger of the two Google Assistant-powered smart speakers was launched at the Google’s first hardware event in October 2016.
Google Home & Home Mini smart speakers Launched in India
On the other side, the smaller of the two was launched at the Mountain View Company’s second hardware occurrence and event in the last October of 2017.
The Google Home and Google Home Mini are all set to available in order to buy online in the nation exclusively via Flipkart, and this can also make available via offline stores.
In India, Google Home speakers can also support Google Play Music, YouTube, Netflix, Saavn, and Gaana. Hindi support can be added to Google Home speakers afterward and eventually in this 2018.
There are no instant plans to convey the overweight Google Home Max speaker to India at this time.
Google Home, Home Mini price in India, availability, launch offers
The Google Home price in India is set around the Rs. 9,999, a price which witness it competes directly with the Amazon Echo smart speaker – powered by the Alexa voice-based virtual assistant – in the nation.
The Google Home can arrive in a Chalk fabric base, and Coral can arrive very soon. To bring to mind, the Amazon Echo is priced at Rs. 9,999 also.
Similarly, the Google Home Mini takes on the Amazon Echo Dot, which features an Rs. 4,499 price – the same as the Echo Dot.
The Google Home Mini is obtainable in Chalk and Charcoal fabric colors.
Flipkart can be at the first time will be exclusively available on the online sales partner, and the speakers will also be made available via different offline channels, including Reliance Digital, Croma, Bajaj Electronics, Vijay Sales, Sangeetha, and Poorvika. Sales via Flipkart and the offline stores can be started from this week or today.
Customers buying the Google Home or Google Home Mini from Flipkart that can be available at the JioFi router and at the time people will be buying a Google Home from a Reliance Digital or MyJio stores, a JioFi router that can be included of with 100GB of 4G data worth Rs. 2,499.
On a recharge of Rs. 149 or above (Rs. 99 Jio Prime membership purchased separately), customers and consumers can get 100GB of additional data, make available in the form of 10 vouchers with 10GB data each; validity of the vouchers can be around 1 year from the date of credit. The offers will last until this 30th April.
At select Philips Hue and Croma outlets, buyers can have the Philips Hue and Google Home Mini at a special bundled price. In addition, ACT Fibernet retail customers subscribing to 12-month advance rental plans of 90Mbps and this can receive a Google Home Mini.
People who make the purchase via HDFC Bank credit cards can have 10 percent cash back. Buyers will also get the free subscription to Gaana up to 31st October 2018; paying Re. 1 will endow with them an ad-free subscription to the service for an additional 1.5 years.
Very akin to this, Saavn subscription can be free probably until this 31st October, and an ad-free subscription for another 1.5 years will be given at around Re. 1.
Speaking at the launch event, Rishi Chandra, VP of Product Management and General Manager of Home Products, Google stated and throw light on the same; “We are delighted to bring our best-in-class Home products to India. These products have been customized to match the needs of the Indian consumer and you will see that Google Home is true ‘desi’. It understands Indian accents and will respond to you with uniquely Indian contexts. Another unmatched feature of our product is that the Google Assistant can work across all your devices – giving you a personalized Assistant experience in its truest sense.”
Google Home specifications
The Google Home features a touch surface on top that is worth to be used to control playback, volume, and also activate the Google Assistant.
Its mic – which proposes far-field voice recognition and identifies diverse kinds of voices with Voice Match technology – is also placed on the top panel.
Whereas its mic mute button and power status light are situated at the back.
The top panel also having the characteristics of the lights which alters the patterns and colors depending on the action which will be performed and formed.
Google Home sports a high-excursion speaker which is consists of the 2-inch driver and dual 2-inch passive radiators. This can be available with a White body, but arrives with a different-colored speaker material – the default it ships with is Slate fabric.
This supports devices running Android 4.4 KitKat and higher, and iOS 9.1 and higher.
In order connectivity, the Google Home offers just dual-band (2.4GHz and 5GHz) Wi-Fi 802.11ac, that can be used as a Wi-Fi connected speaker with no Bluetooth capabilities.
This also needs to be powered by a wall socket, that arrives with an AC power adapter. As for supported audio formats, the Google Home supports HE-AAC, LC-AAC+, MP3, Vorbis, WAV (LPCM), and FLAC.
This speaker also supports Chromecast, letting users stream movies, shows, and music onto their connected TVs or Google Cast speakers.
This will be also working with over 1,000 smart home devices from over 150 brands. It measures 142.8mm in height and has a diameter of 96.4mm. This is a weight of 477 grams, and its power cable measures 1.8 meters.
Google Home Mini specifications
The Google Home Mini has 4 lights on top, which show the speaker is working which can be seen orange when the mic is muted – there is a mic mute switch near the power (Micro-USB) port on the back.
Control mechanisms are placed on the left and right of the Google Home Mini’s lights, which can be used to alter the volume and start or stop alarms, timers, and calls or anything.
The speaker will be only available with fabric-based designs. It sports a non-skid silicone base also.
Its speaker is said to deliver 360-degree sound and bears a 40mm driver, at the same time as it mic supports far-field voice recognition.
This supports the devices running Android 4.4 KitKat and higher, and iOS 9.1 and higher.
In order to develop the connectivity, the Google Home Mini offers dual-band (2.4GHz and 5GHz) Wi-Fi 802.11ac and also the Bluetooth v4.1, letting it be used as both a Wi-Fi connected speaker and a Bluetooth speaker.
This can be required to be powered by the wall socket, that can arrive with an AC power adapter. As for supported audio formats, the Google Home supports HE-AAC, LC-AAC+, MP3, Vorbis, WAV (LPCM), and FLAC.
The speaker also supports Chromecast, which allows users stream movies, shows, and music onto their connected TVs or Google Cast speakers.
This can also work with over 1,000 smart home devices from over 150 brands.
This is going to be measures 42mm in height and has a diameter of 98mm. It has a weight of 173 grams, and its power cable measures 1.5 meters.
