Google Home Hub Is Coming To India and Renamed As Nest Hub

Google has decided to rebrand its smart assistant Google Home Hub as Nest Hub. At the Google I/O 2019, it is announced that the device would be coming to India as well as 11 other countries but in English language only. Google launched its smart display Google Home Hub in April last year together with the Pixel 3 smartphones lineup. In the US, the price tag for the Nest Hub is going to be $129. However, there is no official pricing for the India market yet.

The Nest Hub or Google Home Hub is introduced to take on Amazon Echo Show. The device has a cylindrical-shape speaker and a 7-inch touch display with no camera, thankfully. But, Google also introduced Nest Hub Max, a bigger version with a 10-inch display with mics, camera and a price tag of $229.

According to the company’s claim, the Google Home Hub can work well with 200 mil smart devices belonging to 1000 different brands. Besides being used as a smart display, with Google Photo integration, users can utilize the device as a digital photo frame.

The Google Home Hub features a cleaner and easier-to-use UI Home View dashboard which let users take full control of all the smart devices present in their houses remotely. For example, you can sit in the living room and adjust your bedroom’s temperature or change the sound system’s volume in the other room.

The device also offers Google Voice Match feature with which the device is able to detect a registered voice and switch to the personalized profile matching that voice. With this feature, parents can filter out the profile as well as monitoring the content that they want their kids to get access to in the device.