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04-06-2017, 01:11 AM
Next-gen Google Home could control your lights and fix your bad Wi-Fi
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It's barely been five months since Google Home (http://mashable.com/2016/11/03/google-home-review/) arrived to take over homes and there are already whispers of version 2.0.
According to a report from The Information (https://www.theinformation.com/google-plots-new-hardware-to-take-on-echo?shared=aa6165), Google's working on an upgraded version of Home that'll also double as a Wi-Fi router and mesh network.
SEE ALSO: How to order a pizza with Amazon Alexa or Google Home (http://mashable.com/2017/02/07/how-to-order-pizza-with-amazon-alexa-google-home/)
To put it in simpler terms, the next-gen Google Home could be half speaker/Google Assistant (what it currently is) and half Google Wifi (http://mashable.com/2016/12/06/google-wifi-review/). Instead of buying and setting up two devices, you'd only need one.
By including Wi-Fi router capabilities, Google would be able to "make its Assistant service faster" the report claims. It's unclear if faster means more responsive; I had ** issues with using Google Assistant on Home when I reviewed it, and didn't find it to be slow at all (at least on decent Wi-Fi connections). Read more... (http://mashable.com/2017/04/05/google-home-2-wifi-mesh-router/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
More about Amazon Echo (http://mashable.com/category/amazon-echo/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), Routers (http://mashable.com/category/routers/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), Mesh (http://mashable.com/category/mesh/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), Wi Fi (http://mashable.com/category/wi-fi/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), and Smart Home (http://mashable.com/category/smart-home/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Mashable/~4/WKvbOA-V-n0
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It's barely been five months since Google Home (http://mashable.com/2016/11/03/google-home-review/) arrived to take over homes and there are already whispers of version 2.0.
According to a report from The Information (https://www.theinformation.com/google-plots-new-hardware-to-take-on-echo?shared=aa6165), Google's working on an upgraded version of Home that'll also double as a Wi-Fi router and mesh network.
SEE ALSO: How to order a pizza with Amazon Alexa or Google Home (http://mashable.com/2017/02/07/how-to-order-pizza-with-amazon-alexa-google-home/)
To put it in simpler terms, the next-gen Google Home could be half speaker/Google Assistant (what it currently is) and half Google Wifi (http://mashable.com/2016/12/06/google-wifi-review/). Instead of buying and setting up two devices, you'd only need one.
By including Wi-Fi router capabilities, Google would be able to "make its Assistant service faster" the report claims. It's unclear if faster means more responsive; I had ** issues with using Google Assistant on Home when I reviewed it, and didn't find it to be slow at all (at least on decent Wi-Fi connections). Read more... (http://mashable.com/2017/04/05/google-home-2-wifi-mesh-router/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
More about Amazon Echo (http://mashable.com/category/amazon-echo/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), Routers (http://mashable.com/category/routers/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), Mesh (http://mashable.com/category/mesh/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), Wi Fi (http://mashable.com/category/wi-fi/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), and Smart Home (http://mashable.com/category/smart-home/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Mashable/~4/WKvbOA-V-n0