Diseño elegante; Buen seguimiento del sueño; Gestos rápidos y sonido mejorado;

Cierto retardo en ocasiones puntuales; Servicio de detección de sueño en pruebas; Posible modalidad de pago por suscripción;

Google spoils an otherwise brilliant product with plans to charge for its best feature

Sleep tracking works well; Alarm clock functions are improved; Sounds better than the previous model;

Sleep tracking only free until 2022; Can’t distinguish between two partners’ coughs and snores; Better sound but still not brilliant bass;

Google Nest Hub is a control panel for your smart home. Now also with sleep sensor and (slightly) better sound.

Perfect as a dashboard for Google Home.

Navigation is not easy on the small screen. The sound is still in clock radio quality. More apps would make it far more useful.

The new Nest Hub has all of the great things that we fell in love with in the first generation, including the digital picture frame, controls for smart homes, access to cameras and doorbells, and more.

Ultimately, the new Nest Hub is an improved version of the original with one notable new feature. While Sleep Sensing is technologically impressive and could be useful for some, a potential fee would be hard to swallow.

The second-generation Google Nest Hub offers quite a few features squeezed into a compact and easy-to-live-with device. It is very similar to the first generation but the addition of radar for gestures and sleep tracking is useful.

Pros: sleep tracking without bracelet or headband, good screen, decent speaker, Google Assistant, hand gestures, Cast support for video and music, BBC radio, recycled plastic, no camera for privacy concerns.

Cons: 7in screen a bit small for video, can be a bit slow at times, no camera for video chat.

At this level and with this music and video content support, the Nest Hub is a viable smart home contender

Great streaming service support, Good-value screen, Sleep Sensing tech

Making calls requires app, Basic sound

Great for smart home control; Improved sound; Gorgeous digital photo frame; More video streaming options;

No camera;

The smart home’s roots go back far before Google Assistant ever became a virtual assistant in the home, but it wasn’t until the arrival of the Nest Hub in 2018 that we were given a true hub to control the smart home. Since then, we’ve seen countless smart displays released, including a big brother in the Nest Hub Max, which boasted a front-facing camera that diversified its functionality beyond just acting as a smart display. The new Google Nest Hub (2nd Gen) distinguishes itself from any other smart display out there with its sleep-monitoring ability. It’s an addition you wouldn’t necessarily expect, especially in a smart display, but is it enough to make it a proper successor? There was a time when I was tracking my sleep at night, with the help of either a fitness tracker or smartwatch. I found the information they gathered useful, but the reason why I stopped boiled down to two things — they needed to be recharged (daily, in the case of most smartwatches) and having something on my...

Accurate sleep tracking; Tons of data about your sleep; $100 starting price;

Few new features over previous model;

The Google Nest Hub (2nd generation) may look very similar to its predecessor, but with Soli radar technology built in, it can track your sleep, making it Google’s most innovative smart display to date. Sleep sensing works well, although you won’t get the detailed statistics a wearable sleep tracker offers, and with handy features such as the Sunrise alarm too, this is a device that will help you both wind down and wake up.

Smart display can track your sleep; Can help you wind down and wake up gently; Watch Netflix, Disney+, and cast other videos on the 7-inch screen;

No camera for video calls; Audio doesn’t have powerful bass; Sleep tracking not as accurate as a wearable