In 2016, Google showed off its first smart speaker, the Google Home. A year later, its puck-size sibling the Google Home Mini ($40 at Best Buy) arrived. Small but mighty, this speaker came with all the smarts of Google Home but at an affordable $49.
If you're a fan of the Google Home Mini, the Nest Mini offers a very similar experience with a handful of improvements and new features at the same affordable price.
Google added several new features and improved sound quality to its second-generation smart speaker.
You still can't connect the Mini to larger speakers via auxiliary cable; and there's no digital display like Amazon's newest Echo Dot has.