It's barely been five months since Google Home arrived to take over homes and there are already whispers of version 2.0.
According to a report from The Information, Google's working on an upgraded version of Home that'll also double as a Wi-Fi router and mesh network.
To put it in simpler terms, the next-gen Google Home could be half speaker/Google Assistant (what it currently is) and half Google Wifi. Instead of buying and setting up two devices, you'd only need one.
By including Wi-Fi router capabilities, Google would be able to "make its Assistant service faster" the report claims. It's unclear if faster means more responsive; I had no issues with using Google Assistant on Home when I reviewed it, and didn't find it to be slow at all (at least on decent Wi-Fi connections). Read more...
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