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Google Home and Chromecast Ultra make your home smarter

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Vince 04 October 2016

Google Android

The final part of the Google event today covered Google Home and the Chromecast Ultra. They'll cost $129 and $69, respectively.

Google Home

Google Home is the company's answer to Amazon Echo - a voice-powered device that's powered by the company's own Assistant.

It's a beautiful piece of hardware with the top housing four LEDs, which light up when it recognizes an "Okay, Google" command so you know it's listening. Google Home boasts a microphone system with multiple mics for an accurate far-field voice recognition.

The home assistant is capable of controlling other connected home devices from Nest, SmartThings, Philips and IFTTT. However, if you have a Chromecast you can also stream content to your TV. Music streaming is also included and supports content from YouTube, Google Music, Spotify, Pandora, Tunein and IHeart Radio.

The Google Home will cost $129 and will ship in November, but it's only going to be available in the US.

Chromecast Ultra

The latest Chromecast is called Ultra since it can stream 4K videos. It has another neat trick up its sleeve, which is HDR video content and Dolby Vision.

To do so, the Chromecast Ultra packs hardware that's 1.8x faster than the previous Chromecast. It also supports Ethernet, but through a dongle.

The Chromecast Ultra doesn't come as cheap as its predecessors at $69/€79/£69.

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  • L5x
  • 11 Oct 2017

WOW, an AMAZING deal, for the price of a decent mid-ranger phone you can instead purchase TWO incredibly useful spying devices so Google knows every detail of your private life with even MORE accuracy, all of this providing barely anything besides th...

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  • rvp
  • 04 Oct 2016

Why is the chromecast ultra advert repeated twice in the same article

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  • a04
  • 04 Oct 2016

Kind of expensive, specially you might want two, one in the bedroom and one in the kitchen, you'll have to sell your kidneys

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