from a device that i might use as a bedside alarm clock anyways for no extra charge however that's probably going to change the nest hub tells you that sleep sensing is in preview for free right now but once google launches google fit premium or whatever brand it's going to slap on fitbit premium it looks like sleep sensing will be part of a paid subscription i'd rather spend my money on the fantastic products on URL_TOKEN that's just me but google's sleep sensing feature might make sense for someone who would get that subscription anyways and who's having trouble sleeping i'm not because i have a baby when i have time to sleep i sleep so while sleep sensing is nice to have now it's also one of the things that just confuses me about google's strategy with solely and smart home stuff in general like i think it's cool that google is experimenting with new technology but it's like they don't even care whether people actually need or want it like hey we made a phone that will tell you whether you need a haircut or not you need it alright time to finally talk about the rest of the stuff that's changed with the new nest hub it does have larger speakers with NUMBER_TOKEN inch audio drivers google says they give the hub NUMBER_TOKEN percent better base performance and while i didn't run the numbers on that you can definitely hear the difference this model sounds a lot better than the original it's also gotten a processor upgrade from the quad-core NUMBER_TOKEN gigahertz amlogic sNUMBER_TOKENd in the original to a NUMBER_TOKEN-bit NUMBER_TOKEN gigahertz arm cpu yeah google won't say the actual brand and model of this processor which makes me think that maybe google used an in-house design is this the first device with google silicon i certainly hope not because while this chip is supposedly faster on paper the touch screen on the second gen nest hub is just as choppy and laggy as the first gen model like i understand you got to save money somewhere but it's pretty disappointing to get a first party google device with a super clean look minimalist aesthetic and then have it perform like an uncertified android device you got off aliexpress apple wouldn't let this happen also inside is something that to me is more exciting than the project solely sensors or at least more exciting than the implementation of them that we have here it's an extra radio that will make the hub compatible with a thread smart home network protocol if you don't know what that is it's basically going to be the way that smart home devices talk to each other in the future all the cool kids on tiktok will have thread enabled rgb led lights in the background okay it's get ready so really quickly thread is backed by google apple samsung and all the other big boys and it's a mesh protocol meaning devices don't have to connect to a central hub they just connect to each other for a low latency low power setup so instead of tapping a button and waiting a second for your smart light to turn on it'll turn on right away now there are very few devices that support thread right now apple's homepod mini and nanoleaf essentials bulbs being among them so even if the nest hub's touch screen is laggy and the sleep sensing is at least you're future-proofing if you get it all in all though
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