 Here's a thing that everybody knows. Google is the king of search. You might not know that they were out way ahead in voice search. So Amazon brought out the Echo and Alexa and all of a sudden everybody loved it. Everybody wants smart speakers in the house. So last year, Google released this. It's the Google Home. It's a pretty good little small speaker, but it doesn't get nearly the attention that the Amazon Echo does. And since then, Amazon has started selling the really cheap Echo Dot hand over fist. And later this year, Apple is releasing a really high end speaker, the HomePod. So Google, the king of search, is doing the really obvious thing. It's releasing a cheap little smart speaker called the Google Home Mini, and it's releasing a high end speaker called the Google Home Max. Let's start with the Mini. It's a smaller $49 Google Home, basically. It comes in three colors, gray, darker gray, and coral. It's a little bit bigger than an Echo Dot, but it's covered all in fabric to help make it look nice. There are four lights on the top which you can tap. You can also adjust volume by tapping on the sides. Oh, and there's a mute switch on the back. It's, you know, really straightforward. The advantage the Google Home Mini has over the Echo Dot is that it sounds much better. Now, you're not gonna wanna listen to a ton of music on it, but you can clearly hear it from across the room. I just wish it was a little bit cheaper, even though you're getting a slightly nicer speaker for that price. I also wish it didn't use micro USB, because it's 2017 and that's just dumb. But the really interesting speaker is the Google Home Max. It is not cheap at all at $399. It's a big stereo speaker that's clearly designed to take on the likes of Sonos and Apple's upcoming HomePod. Now, you know, it's a smart speaker, so you can play stuff with the Google Assistant or Chromecast or Bluetooth, or you can plug in a plain old aux jack in the back. It also has a USB-C port for stuff like Ethernet or whatever. Now, the trick to the Google Home Max is that it has an automatic equalizer that adjusts the sound based on what it hears in a room. In a demo that I saw later at Google's headquarters, I watched an engineer take the thing and stick it in the corner, and the bass got really loud and weird, but then 10 seconds later, it was fine. Just like Apple's HomePod is supposed to do, the Google Home Max listens to itself in real time and automatically adjusts itself to the room. That was impressive, but what impressed me just as much is that when the music was blaring really, really loudly, a Google engineer muttered, "'Okay, Google,' basically under his breath, and the Home Max heard him just fine and paused to stop to listen to what he had to say. I'll definitely be testing this when it comes out. Now, as for the speaker itself, it has two 4.5-inch woofers with 22-millimeter extrusion and a couple of tweeters, too, all in an enclosure that has plenty of space and a sturdy design to enable enough bass. You can set it down horizontally or vertically. There's this clever little rubber foot that attaches via magnets on either side. You can also pair two of them as stereo speakers, and it generally supports multi-room audio with them. Now, you should know this is not a sound bar. You're not gonna attach it to your TV, and you're also not gonna hook this thing up to a high-end receiver to get your Dolby Atmos on. Honestly, you should think of it more like an iPod Hi-Fi, but designed for the modern era. Now, the Google Home Mini is available for pre-order right now, and again, it's 49 bucks. It should be shipping before the end of the month in about seven countries. The Google Home Max won't be available for pre-order until November 13th, and it's only gonna be shipping in the US and Canada, but we don't yet know when that will be. Now, of course, we have to point out that last week, Amazon announced a giant pile of new Echo speakers, showing yet again that although Google was originally ahead of the curve when it comes to voice search, it still has a lot of catching up to do compared to the Echo. But you know what? Google has made its bet, making fewer devices that the company claims are of higher quality. We're just gonna have to see how that bet plays out. I'm sure they'll get what they wanted. That is all the time we have for today guys, I hope you have a great day. Deep breath, out. Keep breathing, finish your delicious breakfast. Bye guys. Let's eat.