The smart home arena is getting even more crowded, with Apple's barrel-shaped HomePod speaker on the horizon. Once the Siri-powered device lands in February, expect a three-horse race between Google Home, the Amazon Echo and the HomePod, all competing for shelf space in your living room.

I have Google home and Alexa. Prefer Google over Alexa because it is a search engine. Have more answers than Alexa. I find that Alexa speaker base is better quality.

My Google Homes and Home Minis are way more useful than I ever thought they would be. The more stuff you add like more speakers or Chromecasts or smart outlets, the more useful the system becomes. I upgraded to two full size Google Homes up from a pair of Minis and I'm very happy with them.

This is probably the most useless piece of technology I have ever owned!! I paid a heck of a lot of money for a glorified alarm/reminder. The app you need for this is hard to set up, no instructions with it, so you're navigating all sorts of places to set it up.

It was easy to install. I enjoy the music it plays for free. Didn't know you had to pay $9.99/month if you wanted added access to their library of 40 million recordings. Like the general information you can access. Quite impressive. Hope to connect this device to a home security system soon.

Google Home is pretty much neck and neck with it's biggest rival, the Amazon Echo. That doesn't mean it's not an excellent product, though - especially for those who have already bought into Google's ecosystem.

Cheaper than the Echo; Chromecast support; Easy to use

Voice recognition and speech capabilities are slightly lacking

I took a chance buying this device, because I don't own a Smart Phone, but have a Tablet with Android. That was enough, to get it working, and now it's my main source for music. It will play any song by any artist, that's within u tubes library.

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Cheaper than Echo; Wide IoT support; Easy to use

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Great device. Not much more to say. Synced with my other Google devices so I can play the same music in every room, commands are easy etc. Only thing that's difficult is getting the thing to do pop quiz with rock questions - no matter how I say rock, the thing just does not register it.

Purchased to provide cover over my whole house to around 20-22 devices. TV's, games consoles etc. Setup was as simple as it states in the instructions. Around 10-15minutes and was then a case of adding all the various devices and setting names.