The setup process involves agreeing to a “preview of Sleep Sensing” in the Google Home app. Despite that history and experience, using Sleep Sensing on the Nest Hub was new and unexpected.
I am certainly one of those people and have been wearing sleep trackers for much longer. Wellness is a natural extension of providing assistance in the home as most users in the Google ecosystem already get help from Assistant when they’re out in the world. The brand started with thermostats and later expanded to cameras, smoke detectors, and a security system, while “Google Nest” added speakers and Smart Displays to the lineup. The other big feature made possible by Soli is “Sleep Sensing.” This new Hub marks Nest’s entrance into health, though that fact is overshadowed by Google’s broader hardware division buying a whole other company to do basically the same thing. In practice, animation performance and loading speeds are mostly unchanged. The quad-core 64-bit 1.9 GHz ARM CPU is clocked higher than the Nest Mini (1.4 GHz) or Audio (1.8 GHz) and is paired with a “high-performance ML hardware engine” that processes your most frequent commands on-device. In terms of performance, the only change I observed is that the 2nd-gen Nest Hub boots faster than the original or even the Hub Max. This action is available on the Pixel 4 but is currently only used to snooze alarms by the Nest Hub. The convenience and fact that you don’t have to be very precise - taps can start ~18 inches away in our experience - when gesturing makes it all the more frustrating that you can’t yet skip or go back to the last track with a wave. It’s been wonderful for listening to music while resting in bed with your eyes closed and just vaguely gesturing over the Smart Display to end playback. In Settings, you can disable “Motion Sense” entirely, while you also have the option to turn on/off “Quick Gestures.”Īt launch, you’re able to play/pause media by “air-tapping in front of your display.” This gesture is absolutely delightful and works much better than the camera-based feature on the Nest Hub Max. We’re told the radar component is located in the top-right, but it’s not at all visible. Following the Pixel 4 and new Nest Thermostat, Google has brought its Soli sensor to the Nest Hub. Hardware-wise, the other big change is something that you can’t see. Another change is how edge-to-edge Smart Display gestures are no longer encumbered by that perimeter, which prevented flat, smooth swiping. It’s minor but much appreciated when wiping. While minor, this makes the screen much easier to clean as there is no longer a raised lip that dust can be wedged into. The only physical change is a flat display that sees glass sit atop the rear plastic backing.
Google carried over the “floating screen attached to an oblong fabric-covered base” aesthetic.
After using Google’s 2nd-gen Nest Hub for the past week, I experienced the next level of computers passively suggesting what improvements can be made in your life, and it will take some time to get used to.Īt a glance, the Nest Hub (2nd gen), as it’s officially called, looks exactly like the 2018 Home Hub. In fact, that’s now the base level of usefulness we expect from our gadgets. Technology today is already quite assistive, from location-aware reminders to notifications telling you when to leave, factoring in live traffic conditions.
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