Gadgetory

hey this is Tom from the verge and we've seen Google assistant everywhere from your phone your TV your car even your watch now we're seeing it on these brand new smart display and the Novo is one of the first partners to create these actual devices essentially it's basically extending the Google assistant to a screen basically display so kind of similar to how we seem to the echo look something that's sort of similar to the rest of that so let's see exactly well what it does for that so I can say stuff like hey Google good morning and it's going to go through a routine which you get you all right to work information maybe the news or that sort of stuffs the sort of thing you'd expect when you wake up and ask it for a routine so other things you can do beside the routine stuff is obviously queries like you it on Google assistant hey Google show me bakeries nearby so normally on the phone you listen to get the Google assistant and you get a bunch of stuff back and you have to wait and go through every single thing and here you can also scroll through this like a card UI you can tap whichever one you want so you can also dig deeper into the experience here hey Google show me how to get then you're gonna get directions for your Google Maps what's really interesting is it's also gonna send these directions to your phone as well so you can pick up and go out and drive to wherever you need to go so you might be wondering what's this running is it Chrome is it Android it's actually Android things which boots into the Google assistant experience that we're seeing right here so we're seeing a Google geo we've seen Google Play Music we've seen Maps YouTube a lot of Google services at the moment there's any third party to support in the future and that doesn't mean via Android apps or anything like that so it's a new platform essentially that Google's created and the Nova is one of the first hardware makers to sort of launch this at CES this year there's actually two different models and there's an eighth inch and a ten inch the 8 inch has got just a regular HD display the 10 inch has got a full HD display but then over have done some kind of interesting things on the hardware and so around the back of the 8 inch model you've got a matte finish and in only 10 inch model there's actually a bamboo those aren't really being strange about just how they designed them then built kind of stand into the place that you can change whichever way you wanted to stand that's pretty neat as well they've also done a really interesting privacy feature which is the webcam has a shutter a physical shutter study you can shut off and you'll be able to see that from from from the distance we were a red dot essentially you that will show you that it's actually turned off that's a pretty good thing to see in these sort of devices we've seen device like the echo spot that's got a camera that's pointing at your bedroom and there's no control over the the actual webcam there even though there's a lot of software restrictions is still quite nice just to have that as a privacy control anyway so these are kind of like military little TVs they're kind of a retro sort of look to them and I could see that they'd sort of fit in the kitchen and you've also you'd get YouTube for your recipes you've got Google Maps for you driving directions they kind of make sense at that part of the home and they're kind of small enough just to sort of sit on the side and sort of just be there for when you need to call them I think it was really more interesting though is the actual platform and where this will go these are also limited to this 8 inch and 10 inch form factor on these devices and it's gonna be other ones obviously and but I think what's really interesting is where it goes like could it be part of your toaster could it be on it like your fridge I think that's kind of where I see this essentially going in the future in terms of when they're gonna be available when you can get your hands on one of these and Google and an over both saying missus can be sort of summertime the 8 inch model here is priced at $199 and the 10 inch one is priced at $249 so you can be able to get these in the summertime and that's when we're gonna see exactly what happens with it and we obviously seen the Amazon echo show and it's pretty early days for that particular device we're not really seen its full capabilities yet and this is obviously a major competitor to it and its kind of what we're expecting to see whether whether either device is successful or not we'll have to say but I think it's it's gonna be an interesting battle through the rest of the year ok thanks for watching and we're gonna be at CES all week so subscribe to our YouTube channel and you can really see a lot more devices just like this