Google Nest Mini arrives to take on Amazon Echo Dot in India: Price, features

Google on Monday launched the Nest Mini smart speaker in India after it skipped the release of its Pixel 4 smartphones. The Nest Mini is the rebranded second-generation Home Mini that comes with many upgrades, such as a refreshed interface for how you interact with it and a hook so that it can be hung on a wall. Google Nest Mini is priced at Rs 4,499 and is available to buy from Flipkart. The smart speaker comes in Chalk and Charcoal colours in India – but there are two additional Coral and Sky variants that are not available here.

Nest Mini has a more refined look than the first-generation Home Mini speaker. Nest Mini has a fabric on top that is claimed to have been manufactured using “100% recycled plastic bottles.” There is a new power adaptor, similar to the one on Nest Hub speaker. Nest Mini comes with dual-band (2.4GHz and 5GHz) Wi-Fi, Bluetooth v5.0, and Chromecast built-in. It can be paired with an Android device or an iPhone over Wi-Fi connection using Google Home app. Nest Mini is powered by a 64-bit quad-core 1.4GHz ARM CPU.