L. Glass
Reviewed in the United States on September 5, 2024
Google should be ashamed of themselves for producing such a limited product. Worse yet I believe that the limitations are all Google Software imposed limitations. A device called a HUB (either Google or Nest) should provide at a MINIMUM the same functionality that one gets from the Google Home app on their phone. This provides much less and is very limited in it's usability. They could improve it by making one of the Built In Apps Google Home with all the same functionality. They should also have Play Store access for this device to allow installation of apps such as TuneIn Radio. Instead they choose to leave choices for radio streaming up to a random choice of their choice. Defaults seem to be YouTube music, Global Player followed by TuneIn sometimes. Behavior is highly erratic. Grouping of speakers functionality is also highly erratic and very difficult to manage and set up. Audio streaming of YouTube seems to be blocked thus disallowing streaming of Audio from a Chromecast Google TV device to other in-home speakers. International functionality seems to be very inconsistent with vastly different behavior in different countries. Amazon Alexa is far ahead of Google with respect of international functionality. While TuneIn can be forced when added to the audio command stream rigorously following the "Dialect" imposed by Google for each country / Language, without direct access to TuneIn there is no way to use your subscribed TuneIn application. This could be easily overcome by allowing installation of apps like TuneIn directly. We deserve much more than this product has been limited to provide. Recommend DO NOT BUY. Your phone or a tablet has better functionality and probably costs less mostly because you can install Google Home and other Apps (like TuneIn) directly. Google should be able to fix this with a software update that provides - 1) Google Home as a built in APP 2) Playstore access to install other apps, 3) the ability to customize the GUI and home screens like on a phone or tablet.
charlene obrien
Reviewed in the United States on September 1, 2024
Love to stream and access information, weather, listen to music and see my security cameras displayed. Easy to use, connect, install. I like the appearance. Works well in my kitchen, if it was in my bedroom I could even use it as a sleep status check. Size is just right
ingridplasencia
Reviewed in the United States on August 25, 2024
El artículo llegó un día antes muy bueno me facilita cuando estoy en la cocina puedo ver Netflix o ordenar reproducir alguna música de mi preferencia lo ame muy fácil de instalar te va diciendo como y es muy sencillo seguir los pasos de la instalación lo recomiendo 100%
Doris
Reviewed in the United States on May 24, 2024
The Cantonese (Hong Kong) speaking option in the language menu does not work. Apparently it's not supported but is an option in the settings.When I tried making it the primary language, another menu popped up for me to select the Smart Display language. It showed Mandarin (China) only as an option only for the smart display. So I selected that since the traditional writing system is the same for both just a dialect difference.The device would then spit out everything in Mandarin. This is so disappointing when there's such a huge population of Cantonese speakers worldwide. Instead the Mandarin dialect gets imposed on us everywhere and everything.The only reason I purchased this device and now I have to return it.
Gary Kortas Sr
Reviewed in the United States on December 3, 2024
I needed a video Cam for medical services.Return to AmazonNo problem, good people
JB37743
Reviewed in the United States on November 5, 2024
I have used both this unit and the Alexa Echo Show. The capabilities of this unit are much more limited than the Amazon counterpart. I was not able to connect my TuneIn Premium account and some other services that I pay for. The unit is also very slow to respond to commands and many of the basic commands such as resume just don't work at all. There is not the same library of skills that Amazon offers. I really wanted this to work better but, even after 4 months of using it, it just isn't working out well enough.
Tiera Sadé
Reviewed in the United States on November 17, 2024
Wish I could connect more things but it gets the job done!
Brian D. Zepf
Reviewed in the United States on December 14, 2023
This was a great deal and I didn't be put off by anyone who complains about the foreign text. It's over stock from overseas. Same device! All you need to do is download the Google home app and which it shows PICTURES of on the screen. Plus there's a giant QR code on the screen. You just scan the image with it and it all changes to English and auto sets it up and done. They should not bash a seller for something they could Google really easily. Just Google how to set up a Google display if your desperate. Believe it or not it will give you a step by step answer. Lol