Google Nest Mini 2nd Generation Smart Speaker with Google Assistant - Charcoal

The 2nd Gen Google Nest is fantastic! I love it so much that I have one in the office, one in the bedroom, and another in the kitchen. It’s incredibly easy to set up and use, and the sound quality is impressive for its size. Whether I’m listening to music, asking for weather updates, or setting reminders, it’s always reliable and quick. The sleek design blends perfectly into any room. Highly recommend it for anyone looking to make their home (or office) smarter and more convenient!

Love this speaker. I do also have the issue with it speaking in an Asian language but it's easy to switch. My daughter who is 7 loves it also. She likes being able to just play music on a whim. Sound quality is great. Good warm sounding bass. It actually sounds better than I thought it would.

Works very well. I have others with screens and this works just as well. Sound is great also. Sits in the middle of the table and makes automation easy.

I've had 3 of the 1st Generation Google Nest Mini Speakers, and had no issues at all with them, until one spent quite some time in a humid environment and stopped working. I couldn't get a new 1st Gen, so I got this one. It was easy to set up the first time and hook up to my existing Google Home. It worked fine the first day or so. Then, a few days later, following a power outage, it said it needed to be hooked up to the Google Home app. I couldn't get this to work without doing a factory reset. and it took days to have time to find the instructions. I got it hooked up and it worked for another day or two. It had been unplugged, so I thought that was the issue. After doing another factory reset and hooking it up again, we were very careful to avoid power outages, but it again stopped working soon after an unknown number of days (hadn't used it for some time). Did the factory reset, and now it spoke Japanese until we got it hooked up. As it was past the 30 day window, we couldn't return it. Have reset once or twice since then, hoping to get it to work, but it never stays more than a day or two. I love our other two, or I'd already be replacing all with Amazon Echo Speakers. As it is, we're replacing this with one, and will do the same should the others fail.

This is clearly a grey market product sold by Amazon in the US. The box is labelled all in Japanese, and when you first plug in the unit it speaks in Japanese. Once you connect to your Google Home app, it speaks in whatever language that is configured for. Installation is not as easy as expected, before you can connect to Google home you must download and run the Device Utility app. I'm disappointed by this as I would have expected a Google product to be configured to work directly with the Google home app. Once up and running, the Google assistant works well and the sound quality is very good for such a small speaker.

Good quality and the sound is great.

Google isn't consistently reliable with smoothly connecting the first time. Took two 'factory resets' for a total of three attempts. My Nest thermostat also took one factory reset before it was successful.

Got a Japanese version of the product/instructions but was no issue changing it to English. Me and my dad got quite the laugh out of such a surprise and now that he's gone, that's one of my most cherished memories with him.10/10 would recommend.