![]() ![]() ![]() If you want to play audio or video, you can either request it through your voice or cast it from your phone to the display. It couldn't be easier: swipe down for smart home stuff, swipe up for hardware settings, swipe left for news and weather, swipe right to go back to the home screen. You can connect to a host of smart home accessories with ease, either with your voice or through the menus on the UI. The software for this Hub is pure Google Home, which means with few exceptions it is the same experience you get from every other Google-powered smart display. Place this display on an end table or in your kitchen, and you will have more than enough speaker to fill the room and sound damn good in the process. And it's doing so with fewer microphones, which is impressive. Google struggled for a generation to be as good as Amazon's Echo platform when it came to microphone quality, but with the Hub Max it seems to have caught up. There's a healthy amount of bass, which can of course be tuned however you prefer through the app, and even at 70% volume the microphones can pick up my voice from 10 feet away when speaking normally. In fact, it is noticeably louder and clearer than the original Google Home speaker as well. There are so few displays out there calibrated this well.Ībout 12 seconds after you plug this in for the first time, you notice the other major different between this Nest Hub Max and the original Nest Hub it is so much louder than its predecessor. I can have this on my desk while I write all day, and never be distracted by it. It fades into the background of the room when not in use, instead of constantly catching the corner of your eye like every other smart display. You could easily walk through a room with this display on and not know it was a display, thanks to the color and brightness tuning. ![]() When not in use, the screen dims to match the ambient lighting of the room, and the images you have selected to play as background look almost like photographs sitting in a large frame. The display is vivid enough to make ambient display images look like photographs. And as soon as you have this display set up and signed in to your account, the software immediately starts doing its magic. This larger model doesn't come in some of the fun colors the smaller model was available in, but since the front looks the same on all of them I didn't mind that much. The display sits at that same familiar angle out in front of the speaker, complete with a thick bezel around the outer edge. Out of the box, the Max really does look like a bigger Nest Hub. ![]()
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