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Google Home Being Offered for Free With the LG G6 Orders Till 30th April

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LG’s latest flagship smartphone, the LG G6 was unveiled at the Mobile World Congress 2017 event in Barcelona in late February. The launch of the phone was awaited for a very long time, and when it did come out, it was quite a good phone. It was appreciated by many users, and the early interest, as well as the numbers are good. Over 30,000 phones have been sold, while over 80,000 units have been pre-ordered. The company has now introduced a new offer in the US where users would get a free Google Home on the purchase of the LG G6.

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The Google Home was launched in the October of last year and has since been Google’s response to the Amazon Echo. The Google Home runs on the Google Assistant. Talking about the assistant, the LG G6 was the first non-Pixel device to feature the Google Assistant (before it was made available for all users running Marshmallow and above). Google and LG have a long history together. The two have worked on multiple smartphones like the Nexus 5 and Nexus 5X. The LG V20 was the first ever smartphone to release with the Android Nougat OS, and now LG G6 customers will be getting the Google Home for free!

Those interested in pre-ordering the LG G6 would need to register at this promo website from LG. As of now no details have been revealed as to how to claim the LG G6, but they are likely to be announced once the phone comes out.

In all likelihood, users would need to enter their purchase details (proof of purchase), and wait for a couple of weeks till they get their Google Home. The Google Home costs $129 if bought separately. It is indeed quite a generous discount, as well as a great device to try out. The deal is valid only for the US based customers.

Google Home Set To Be Cheaper Than Amazon Echo

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Google Home, the company’s competitor to the Amazon Echo, is now available for preorder. It will cost $129, cheaper than Amazon’s device. You can preorder it today in the US and it will start shipping November 4th. In our brief testing, it was a little smarter than Siri and a lot sharper than Alexa, able to understand context in a question and suss out information from around the web when Google’s knowledge graph didn’t have the answer.

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The top of Google Home is touch-sensitive and can be used to change the volume or pause whatever is playing. It has three speakers Google calls them “extrusion speakers” although it’s not clear what that adjective means here. The overall sound quality is a little better than the Echo, but nothing you would replace a serious home sound system with. The device is white, and its design was apparently inspired by household items like candles and wine glasses. The bottom grille can be swapped out, and comes in multiple colors.

Google Home works natively with YouTube Music and Google Play Music, and comes with six months free of YouTube Red. If Google isn’t your service of choice for music, Home integrates with Spotify, Pandora, iHeartRadio, and TuneIn. You can set the default music service for voice commands to be one of these third-party services if you prefer that to Google’s services. Home also acts as a Chromecast Audio receiver, so you can choose to cast the music to any Chromecast-connected television or speakers in the house, and you can play music in multiple rooms at once.

At this point there are a lot of devices that are listening for a prompt like “OK Google.” The company’s goal is to figure out which device is closest to you, and use that gadget to respond. It has only two microphones for listening, instead of the Echo’s seven. But in our brief testing it had a remarkable ability to pinpoint a speaker’s location, and responded on whatever Google device was closest: your Home, your phone, or your smartwatch. Right now Google Home works with a few third-party services. You can use it to call an Uber or play music from Spotify. Google says an API for third-party apps is coming soon, but at launch there will be a limited number of services that can hook into Google Home. Amazon’s Alexa has a big head start here, having already integrated with more than 3,000 services.

Google Home – Google Creates Amazon Echo Rival

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Over the last few days it was heavily speculated that Google would soon be coming out with a new voice based assistant, which was all set to take on the Amazon Echo, a product that had gone largely unchallenged in the markets for a very long time. Google, during the Google I/O 2016, was expected to show off some new technologies, and we had earlier anticipated that the Google ‘Chirp’, too would be teased in some manner. As it turns out, the company actually announced the device, and has named it Google Home.

The company showed off Google Home, a good looking device, which is basically a portable speaker, which takes voice commands. It is very clear that Google has created a competitor for the Amazon Echo here.Google Home

The device has been described by Google’s Mario Quieroz as “a voice activated remote for the home.”

It supports complete voice search features, users can perform many complex tasks such as checking for traffic, or asking the device about how many calories does a particular kind of food has. The device streams music, as well as connects with other smart-devices such as lights and Google Nest, allowing the users to control them via voice.

It also syncs with Google Calendar to set reminders and reschedule appointments. The device has just been  shown off, and won’t be seen in the markets till later this year.

Google Home is powered by Google Assistant, which is Google’s voice assistant technology. This personal assistant is similar to Siri, Cortana, Alexa and the several other assistants we’ve seen in the recent times. As of now it remains unnamed.

“We want users to have an ongoing two-way dialog with Google,” said Sundar Pichai. “[We’re] building each user their own individual Google.”

With Google Home and Google Assistant, the company is indeed progressing forward towards a positive direction in the future.

Google Will Name It’s Amazon Echo Style Product The ‘Google Home’:

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Google will be launching a new product called Google home which will be a direct answer to Amazon new product Echo.

The news of a product that would be launched to compete with the Amazon echo had been in the talk for quite some time but no concrete information on the type of design that the device would have has been launched as yet. Experts are of the opinion that it would definitely be a speak up since it is considered to be the competitor of course but since No design is available we can only guess that it would look a little different from the product in question. Google has specified that the device would be useful around the house and could accept voice command to perform task. Also have the ability to understand your questions and give relevant answers to it.

Google home will be unveiled in an events to be held tomorrow by Google. The product would be demonstrated to the public tomorrow but would not be available for purchase before the second half of the year for it apart from this we also feel that it would be an integral part of Google’s next event that is the Google i / o. It is also being contemplated that we divide would be supported by certain integration that would be figured out by third party developers which again is a good way to have the product ready for performing various activities just in time for its launch.

As for the amazons product echo, it is used to perform various tasks. IT act as a Bluetooth speakers and can also play your favourite music by getting Attitude actually from the Internet. It can also accept your voice commands to do so and perhaps if you ask in a few questions it can give you Sachin answers as well. All this behind the Echo is been performed buy Amazon voice assistant that is Alexa. A lot of effort to went in for developing the Echo and it took more than a year to have Alexa work exactly as the company Desire. Reviews of the product have also been exceedingly good and that is the reason why it was able to compile a huge Google to come up with something do it. If third party integration for also supported them be Google home will prove to be better than the Alexa enabled Echo.

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