The Google Home Mini is here to get you hooked on Google Assistant

If last year's Google Home was the speaker that proved Google Assistant is worthy Amazon competitor, the Google Home Mini is the one that will get people hooked.

The smaller Google Home has all the same smarts as its larger counterparts, but at less than half the price. It's difficult to see how that doesn't shake out as a win for Google.

Functionally, the $49 Google Home Mini is very similar to the original Google Home. The disc-shaped speaker is covered in cloth similar to what's on the base of the larger model.

The Home Mini comes in just three colors: chalk, charcoal, and coral. And, unlike the bigger Google Home speakers, there's no way to swap out the color, which would have been nice, but at less than fifty bucks it's hard to complain. Even with the limited colors, I still very much prefer Google's unassuming design to Amazon's hunks of black plastic. Read more...