Google unveiled its latest smart speaker, the $49 Nest Mini, during its annual hardware event in New York City on Tuesday. Google began rebranding its smart home devices under the Nest moniker in ...

Ultimately, though, she gave the crown to the Nest Audio ... with lots of other smart home accessories, and its voice assistant the most knowledgeable of the bunch. ("It's Google, after all.") ...

However, the transition won't be the same for smart home devices. Google Assistant is the default voice assistant on all of ...

Let's go over a few of the best ones and see how you can have some fun with your smart speaker. Lots of consumers use Google's Nest devices — primarily the Nest Hub display — on a bedside table.

If you're after a smart speaker that has Google Assistant baked in, decent-sounding audio and the added convenience of a touchscreen, the Google Nest Hub might have everything you've been looking for.

Google Nest products have historically been low-powered, affordable smart home devices. If Google Assistant is ditched for Gemini, they'll be changed forever.