Nest Hub Max With 10-Inch HD Screen Announced; Google Details New Privacy Features for Smart Home Devices

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Nest Hub Max With 10-Inch HD Screen Announced;

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Details New Privacy Features for Smart Home Devices

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is bringing its Home products under the Nest brand, the company revealed during a keynote at the ongoing

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I/O 2019 developer conference. The search giant also unveiled the new

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Nest Hub Max device, which is a smart display **** smart speaker with a camera on top. Additionally, the company stated that privacy will be a major part of its connected home devices and services, and it announced the decision to shut down “Works with Nest” developer programme.

According to

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, ever since the company folded Nest into its hardware team, it has been working to make smart homes a little less complicated for the consumers. As a part of the same endeavour, the company is bringing

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Home devices under the Nest brand. The first product to come out of the company’s newly formed (Home + Nest) team is the Nest Hub Max, which is a successor to the company’s Nest Hub that was earlier known as

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Home Hub.

The new

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Nest Hub Max is a smart speaker, smart display, and a smart camera, all rolled into one. The device sports a 10-inch HD screen and comes with wide-angle camera on top. It is powered by the company’s

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Assistant and supports features like

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TV support. The built-in camera in the Nest Hub Max can be used for video chats via Duo, surveillance, and more. Further,

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has added gesture support in the device to make it easier to pause the media or turn down volume, without the need to shout at the device during noisy situations.

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Nest Hub Max works well with multiple members of family and is capable of providing personalised experience to everyone.

“With Nest Hub, we offered you the option to enable Voice Match, so the Assistant can recognise your voice and respond specifically to you. Today with Nest Hub Max, we’re extending your options for personalised help with a feature called Face Match,”

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revealed in a

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. “For each person in your family who chooses to turn it on, the Assistant guides you through the process of creating a face model, which is encrypted and stored on the device. Face Match’s facial recognition is processed locally with on-device machine learning, so the camera data never leaves the device.”

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says that as soon as you walk in front of the Nest Hub Max’s camera, the device recognises you and shows your information, rather than someone else’s.

As privacy is a big part of

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’s new smart home commitment, the Nest Hub Max will come with a green light to show when the camera is streaming or recording. Further, there are multiple controls to disable camera and microphones, including a hardware switch.

Among other smart home privacy features,

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will now explain the sensors present in its connected home devices and how they work.

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will also list if they have been enabled or not and what type of data they are collecting. The company will also reveal how the data being captured by its smart home products is being used to provide helpful features and how the company is keeping it separate from advertising and ad personalisation. Lastly,

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will also help users in managing their data, including offering ability to access, review, and delete the audio and video data stored with

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.

The company also stated that it will offer existing Nest users an option to migrate their account to

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starting this summer.

In an effort to make things seamless and easier for the developers,

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is also shutting down its “Works with Nest” developer program and all developer related stuff will now be offered as a part of “Works with

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Assistant” program, which already supports over 30,000 devices.

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Nest Hub Max price, availability

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says Nest Hub Max will first go on ***** in the US at $229 (roughly Rs. 15,900) later this summer, followed by release in *** at GBP 219 (roughly Rs. 19,700) and Australia at AUD 349 (roughly Rs. 16,900).

The existing Nest Hub,

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Home, and

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Home Max are getting a price cut in the US and will now retail at $129 (roughly Rs. 8,900), $99 (roughly Rs. 6,900), and $299 (roughly Rs. 20,700) respectively.

The company also revealed that it will expanding the availability of Nest Hub to 12 new countries – India, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, Norway, Singapore, Spain, and Sweden. There is no word on the India pricing of the device at this point.

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