Who wants a free Google Home Mini?

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Email arrived :smiley:

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Thanks for the link. Had ready about this but couldnā€™t work out how to claim. Am already a Family subscriber - followed the link, got my email, ordered, BOSH!

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Enjoy! @jmoss @sfmorris :+1:

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@ndrw This is what my order details currently show:

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Iā€™ll update you if I get any news on it.

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Mine was dispatched yesterday :blush:

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I ordered it yesterday at 11:37, got confirmation it had been dispatched at 14:45 :slight_smile:

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Mines just been dispatched! :blush:

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Iā€™ll race ya! :checkered_flag:

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Delayed :weary: My order was placed yesterday lunch time for a chalk.

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Got mine this morning! :ok_hand:

Ordered 18 March @ 12:12, delivered today at 11:16 by Royal Mail.

Pretty impressed tbh

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Royal Mail attempted delivery today but I wasnā€™t home - going to pick it up tomorrow morning from the sorting office :blush:

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has anyone used a google hub before and if so what are they like?

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I havenā€™t used Google Hub but I do have an Amazon Echo Show in the Kitchen.

I particularly like having the screen in this room so I can see timers instead of relying on audio for the timers.

Also like having video news instead of audio news.

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I have 2 x Alexa but I find them letā€™s say basic so if Google Home Mini is good then I will get the Hub.

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Yep. I have the Home Hub in my Kitchen, Home Max in my Living Room, and then various Homeā€™s and Miniā€™s dotted around the rest of the place.

Home Hub is fantastic for the Kitchen, because when youā€™re cooking etc you can set your timers and see a visual of them, pull up recipes or instructional videos etc. I also have a few video news digests on it which I like to catch up when Iā€™m eating or cleaning up in there etc.

Basically what @o99 said, but with Google!

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Did you try Alexa I canā€™t remember?

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Iā€™ve used both. I use Alexa devices at the moment but actually prefer Google Home. There are probably several significant differences between the two platforms, but for me the two things I preferred about the Google devices were 1) Google Assistant seems seems better than Alexa at interpreting nuances of human speech and 2) they double as Chromecast speakers.

Reason I currently use Alexa devices is because Alexa integrates with Sonos which Google does not (yet) and I wanted to try out its integration with Ring (which Iā€™ve ended up not really making use of).

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Absolutely this. Also worth pointing out that Alexa really struggles compared to Google when it comes to different accents.

I found that with Alexa you still have to modify the way you speak when you want it to do something in sort of an over-enunciated unnatural way. Google doesnā€™t have a problem with this.

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Alexa has no issues understanding a 3 year old though :joy_cat: