 Hello everyone, this is Amit Don of amitdon.com. Today I'll have another episode of unboxing and review video and I'll be opening the Google Home Mini speaker. So this is a smart speaker powered by Google artificial intelligence part of Google Assistant devices. So there are many devices you can buy to access Google's artificial intelligence or Google assistance and this is Home Mini. So this is going to be very similar to one of the Amazon Echo dots I have. So the reason I have these two here to compare you know how does it compare with Amazon Echo Dot 2 and Amazon Echo Dot 3. So let's start with unboxing but before I do that let's go through some specs which should be on the box. So here you can see that what Google Mini can do. So you can call mom and then who is the nearest skating ring set a 13 minutes timer and turn up the thermostat. So we can do various things just like Amazon Echo Dot or Amazon Alexa and in terms of the services you can have access to. So you can use Spotify, Netflix, YouTube, Google Photos, Chromecast. So all these services you can access via Google Mini. And then here we have some other information. I've been using Amazon Alexa for a while and I'd like to also start using the Google Home Mini smart speaker system to see you know what are the differences or similarities or which one is better or which one has more features. So as I go through opening up this and getting to know Google Home Mini system in the future there will be more videos about tips and tricks on Google Mini. The same way I have tips and tricks on Amazon Alexa. So let's start with unboxing now. Okay so we have the device which I'll set it aside and then let's see what's else inside the box here. So let's get started some information brochure or information cards and get to know your Google Mini and be safe. So looks like that's all we have here. I'll put this here and then we have a micro USB card and looks like that's it. So the box is actually empty and I'll set this aside here. This is a charcoal color and it has a nice fabric wrap just like the Amazon Echo Dot third generation. Now this is very light. Let me just compare it with Amazon Echo Dot 2. Looks like they're very in terms of weight could be their same but if you take a look at Echo Dot 3 then definitely Echo Dot 3 is heavier than Google Home Mini and it's also bigger. So if you just you know put them side by side definitely Echo Dot 3 is heavier and bigger. If you compare it to Echo Dot 2 then looks like Echo Dot 2 is a little bit smaller and looks like almost same weight. Okay so I'll just set this aside here and let's go through some of the buttons here. So here there's a button which you can turn off or on the capability to listen. So if you just turn it off the device will not be able to listen to you and then here's the micro USB slot and then looks like that's all we have. And here's the rubberized surface so it doesn't slide. This is very similar like you know we have here on Amazon Echo Dot both. So it's like same thing. Okay so what I'll do I'll just power this up and then I will start setting this for the first time on the phone. Okay so I just put power on. You don't have to actually use this cable you can just use any micro USB power so I'm just using my power bank and looks like it's trying to turn it on so it should tell us. Welcome to Google Home. To get started download the Google Home app on a phone or tablet. Okay so asking to download Google Home app on the phone or tablet so I'll just you know open up my Google Home and then we'll see what happens. Okay so this is the Google Home you can download it on the Google Play Store or App Store. So I already have it on my phone so I'm going to just turn it just open up the Google Home. Okay it looks like to me that somehow it recognized that I have one device and it's giving me the message that set up one device and if I didn't have this then I'll just click here on the plus sign right here but I'll just you know click on set up and see what happens here. It's asking me to choose a home you'll be able to control the device and services in your home and it's just giving me a few options. So home meaning my home, Shiloh's home actually this is my sister's and then you can add another home so I'll just check my own home and then we click on next. Okay so it's looking for devices and we'll see what happens here. Okay so it found Google Home Mini and would you like to set up this device? Yes so connecting to Google Home Mini your phone or tablet may be disconnected may disconnect from Wi-Fi during setup which is just fine. Okay so it's connected and asking me did you hear the sound which I did so I can just go ahead and click yes and help improve Google Home Mini so you know it will share the devices stats and everything so I'm just going to say no to this and where's the device so I have to choose where's the devices I'm going to just choose living room and click on next and it's asking me to choose which Wi-Fi network I'd like to set up so here's a list of networks and I'm going to just choose my own Wi-Fi network which is one of these two so just keep choose the first one and then next you save password okay so I already have a password saved on my Google on my Android phone so looks like that you know it will use the same password and I'm going to choose that option and then I'll click next so it's trying to connect to Wi-Fi and let's see what happens here okay before using your Google Assistant here a few things you need to know okay okay so I'll just click next and activate voice match on this device so the device can recognize you by your voice so this is a safer option because then it will not give you like you know personal information from your calendar or email or you know people cannot just buy something if it's not you so I would just say yes to this so it can recognize my voice okay so here it's telling me that you know I already set up voice match with another device which is the Google Assistant on my phone so it doesn't need me to set up voice recognition again so get personal results with your voice so just using the my old voice which I already input inputted before so I'll just agree to that and it's asking the address so which I'll enter because this address uses for traffic and weather and other personalized you know results so I'll just confirm my address and add music services so it can have you can it can play music from youtube google play spotify or dessert so I'll just choose google play okay so you can link your streaming service like Netflix or others I'll just hit next okay and then here we have you're just trying to sign me up with an email and I'll just you know skip this so just say no okay here's a review of what you have set up so change your color ID add your personal number so people know who's calling choose a tv and this is for video and music and address and everything I'll just choose my color ID and choose tv and choose music services okay so I hit continue so we're almost done hi I'm your google assistant I'm here to help to learn a few things you can do continue in the google home app okay lower the volume okay to increase or decrease the volume uh you can either like you know ask to increase or decrease volume or you can just tap on the left or right so let's say if you're tapping on the right when you hear that tone that means it's at its highest volume so I'm going to just lower it a little bit because it seemed to be too high okay okay so I'll just keep it here if you want to like you know long press uh then it would play and if you want to pause uh press again so tap right volume up tap left volume down long press would be play or long press would be pause okay so let me just look if it can tell me the weather okay what is the weather now currently in Toronto it's 14 degrees and cloudy today it'll be cloudy with a forecasted high of 16 and a low of 7 and if you want to listen to today's news just ask if you ever want to know what time it is just ask like to point out a few things before I end the video um I touched my google home mini and then I connected my alexa as well now one thing you cannot do with google home mini is that you cannot connect via wire to a bluetooth speaker or to a speaker it has to be connected via bluetooth but with the amazon echo dot you have the capability to connect it to a bluetooth speaker via wire which I'm doing it here right now so it looks like the google mini doesn't have the capability and then some of the questions uh I'll give you I'll ask some of the questions to both of these devices just to give you an example so for example okay what time is it the time is 2 10 alexa what time is it it's 2 10 p.m alexa who is the nearest tim horton i found a tim hortons it is 0.4 kilometers away on brouillier musin toronto it is normally open until tonight at 11 p.m due to the holiday alternate hours may be in effect okay what is the nearest tim horton i think you've got me confused with someone else tim hortons is on 124 york boulevard in toronto it is 650 meters away and is rated 3.8 stars okay so they're giving a very similar information and some of the questions actually one does better and some of them the other does better but there's something funny uh which i'll show you right now so if you tell uh google or alexa by the other's name they get confused and they give funny answer for example okay google alexa i'm flattered but that's not me i'm your google assistant alexa okay google sorry that's not me it must be a case of mistaken ai identity okay so you see that you know they recognize each other but they don't want to talk about the others so that's very funny the setting up of the device is very easy and simple and i like that uh when i have uh when i set it up amazon echo dot this is my feeling that amazon echo dot setting up it's slightly complicated than google home mini and in terms of like you know how they compare the services and the information they're giving it then you know on those uh once i learn both of them side by side then definitely i'll do more videos on that and then i'll let you know in the future but so far the initial experience is very good and the setting was fairly simple the instructions are very well organized and simple as well so we have basically everything you need to know on these cards and they even gave you a usb cable which was not necessary so everything was okay and uh this is not a paid or affiliated review all my reviews are unaffiliated uh non-affiliated unbiased and honest and i purchased this with my own money and i'm going to have uh echo dot and alexa side by side on my shelf and then i'll see how it goes and how they do in the future so that's all for now thank you for watching forget about subscribing this channel and forget about liking this link thank you for staying this long and i'll see you shortly thank you