Google Home, Home Mini Listed on Flipkart, India Launch Confirmed for April 10

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Home, Home Mini Listed on Flipkart, India Launch Confirmed for April 10

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Home Mini smart speakers are set to launch in India on Tuesday. Last month, we had learnt from a communication circulated by a

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distribution partner – Redington India – to retailers, that the two new devices will launch in the country in April. Following this,

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teased the arrival of the

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Home and

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Home Mini via its

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account. Now, e-commerce website Flipkart has listed the devices on its portal revealing their features and confirming the date.

The

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Home and

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Home Mini

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comes with the tagline ‘Intelligence meets comfort’ and the hashtag #MakeGoogleDoIt.

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had unveiled these smart speakers in 2016, as a hub for the connected home. Meanwhile, the

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Home Mini, similar to the

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Echo Dot, is meant to be used in more rooms, making the services of the

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Assistant available to more people in a single house. The compact and affordable speaker was launched last year in October.

With the India launch coming a few months after

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launched its range of smart speakers – Echo, Echo Dot, and Echo Plus –

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clearly has plans to unseat its rival in the race to bringing connected devices to users’ homes.

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’s Echo line of connected speakers that are powered by its Alexa voice assistant while Home’s intelligence is powered by the

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Assistant.

Flipkart has listed out some of the features of the

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Home and Home Mini. It says that the devices make it easier to play music, cast videos, control smart home, get news updates, and more. On the page, users can register to get further updates on the launch. Notably, you can only register via the Flipkart app and not on the website.

Buyers of

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Home will be able to interact with the device by setting it up via voice recognition technology. Once the speaker becomes attuned to a user’s voice, it will be able to pick up commands. The device, apart from playing music on request, can also help users manage tasks around their house and answer queries that one would generally look for on the search engine.

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Home has interchangeable bases that come in a plethora of colours.

Notably, Flipkart has not provided any information regarding the pricing of the

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Home and Home Mini. For reference,

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Home is priced at $129 (roughly Rs. 8,400) in the US and the

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Home Mini is available for $49 (roughly Rs. 3,200). It is also not clear whether

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will sell the devices only via Flipkart, or they will be available through other online and offline stores as well.

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