{"id":30141,"date":"2017-10-04T15:12:52","date_gmt":"2017-10-04T22:12:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/?p=30141"},"modified":"2017-10-04T15:12:52","modified_gmt":"2017-10-04T22:12:52","slug":"google-announces-50-home-mini-400-home-max-160-pixel-buds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/bens-bytes\/google-announces-50-home-mini-400-home-max-160-pixel-buds\/","title":{"rendered":"Google announces $50 Home Mini, $400 Home Max, $160 Pixel Buds"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p><a href=\"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/DLT70KwUIAAuffW.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-30149\" src=\"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/DLT70KwUIAAuffW-1024x559.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"DLT70KwUIAAuffW\" width=\"620\" height=\"338\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/DLT70KwUIAAuffW-1024x559.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/DLT70KwUIAAuffW-300x164.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/DLT70KwUIAAuffW-768x419.jpg 768w, https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/DLT70KwUIAAuffW.jpg 1199w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Matching Amazon with a barrage of new product announcements, Google has released information on new Home smart devices as well as a new Chromebook, a new lifecam and headphones that translate foreign languages in real time.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to the $130 Google Home standalone device, the <a href=\"https:\/\/store.google.com\/us\/product\/google_home_mini?hl=en-US\">$50 Home Mini<\/a> is Google&#8217;s answer to the Amazon Echo Dot. Of course, it will be difficult to match sale prices on the Echo Dot since the Home Mini hardware is brand new. Expect the Home Mini to fall to a minimum of $40 during November&#8217;s Black Friday sales\u00a0while the Echo will fall to $30 to $35.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/store.google.com\/us\/product\/google_home_max?hl=en-US\">Google Home Max<\/a> is a much larger speaker designed to match up against the $500 Sonos PLAY:5. In addition to being a smart home device, users can connect to the speaker wirelessly via Wi-Fi and Bluetooth. Google is bundling it with 12-months of YouTube Music.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/store.google.com\/us\/product\/google_pixel_buds?hl=en-US\">$160\u00a0Pixel Buds<\/a> are a new device that includes Google Assistant in the earbuds. Basically, you just touch the earbud on the right and say something like &#8220;Help me speak\u00a0Spanish.&#8221; It also has one-touch controls, tapping it for play \/ pause or swiping for changing the volume.<\/p>\n<p>The other devices include a $250 lifecam called Google Clips. It includes 16GB of storage and connects directly to your smartphone to offload the photos and videos. There&#8217;s a new\u00a0high-end Chromebook, the $999\u00a0Google Pixelbook, and a new smartphone, the $650 Pixel 2.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matching Amazon with a barrage of new product announcements, Google has released information on new Home smart devices as well as a new Chromebook, a new lifecam and headphones that translate foreign languages in real time. In addition to the $130 Google Home standalone device, the $50 Home Mini is Google&#8217;s answer to the Amazon [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":30149,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[103,1956,1958,1957,1555],"class_list":["post-30141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bens-bytes","tag-google","tag-google-home","tag-pixelbook","tag-smart-devices","tag-smart-gear"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30141"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30141\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30151,"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30141\/revisions\/30151"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}