With its portrait mode, more impressive audio and larger screen, the Lenovo Smart Display 10" offers something different to the Google Home Hub, but the design could be a little nicer.

Great screen; Portrait mode good for video calls; Easy to converse with; Dedicated smart home controls

No Netflix; All the design flourish is at the rear; Doesn't like G Suite accounts

If you'd like visual recipe help in the kitchen, the Lenovo Smart Display performs that task exceedingly well and everything else well enough that it deserves your consideration.

The Lenovo Smart Display is a great kitchen assistant with an elegant design and a high-resolution touchscreen; It multitasks well, responds quickly to both touch and voice commands and offers a rich, personalized home screen and a customizable ambient mode.

I'd like the screen to do more when you play games or listen to music; You're limited to Google Duo for making voice calls; Scrolling through content with your voice can be tedious.

The 10-inch Lenovo Smart Display is a good-looking, decent-sounding tabletop smart speaker that lets you use Google Assistant hands-free, with visual information and streaming media support.

Bright, crisp screen; Attractive design; Google Assistant is powerful and useful; Google Cast adds media flexibility; Supports YouTube.

Relatively weak bass and low overall audio power; Voice and video chat only through Google Duo.

The Lenovo Smart Display 10 is priced at Rs 13,999 and that means it costs a lot lesser than the Amazon Echo Show (around Rs 22,999). That is a good start.

If you need a smart display, the Lenovo Smart Display is one of the best in the business – but you might be able to get by with just a smart speaker.

Large; vibrant screen; Google Assistant is excellent; Decent audio quality; Doubles up as a Chromecast

Chunky in appearance

Smart speakers have come a long way over the past few years as Amazon, Google and Apple have delivered pretty noteworthy strides in the IQs of their assistants. Where speakers haven’t advanced as much is in how they offer users choices; Google Assistant can only list out so many options before you...

New Delhi: Smart speakers and displays don’t make for a booming market yet, but that might change as more brands come into the space. If Sony and Bose are examples of that for Amazon’s Alexa, Lenovo is an example for the Google Assistant.

Lenovo’s Smart Display delivers all the smarts of the Google Home Hub, but it’s too pricey to recommend over its rival

Supports video calling; Large; sharp display; Neat; attractive design

Bulky; Disappointing sound quality

When it comes to Google’s Smart Display initiative, I love the idea; I’ve been using Google Home Hub for a while and it’s been fantastic, it’s minimalist and takes Google Assistant to a whole new level of functionality. What sets Lenovo’s Smart Display apart from the rest is its design.

Deciding on whether or not to buy the Lenovo Smart Display essentially comes down to two questions. The first thing you need to ask yourself is: do you need a display for your digital smart home assistant? My answer to this is yes, absolutely.