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I can't recall, but what are the differences between gen 1 and 2? Was it just better speakers and wave to sleep function?

Can you download play store apps on gen 2?

Anyone see this in the West yet? Just saw them still at regular price last night.

Was the $40 hub gen 1 or 2?

Don't understand the focus on someone's past deal, on the previous generation.
There must be a time machine out there that I don't know about.

E.g. "I got a previous generation for $20 and used a gift card to get it for $3."
(And that info is useful info to others looking into buying one now??)

I can't recall, but what are the differences between gen 1 and 2? Was it just better speakers and wave to sleep function?

Can you download play store apps on gen 2?

And an extra mic I believe

No. It's a slow, crappy, laggy tablet stuck to a lump of plastic.

Don't buy it.


You have a somewhat usable web browser, it's a recent chromium of some kind so modern sites work. But it often crashes or you'll get stuck with whatever unexpected behavior you've just discovered, which forces you to exit the browser and reenter it, if the whole system UI didn't do that already for you.

Which makes you lose anything as the browser doesn't keep history, and it doesn't even support bookmarks, or a homepage. It really is just a glorified WebView, and a thoroughly very broken one. Don't buy it. And often you'll be in there and when you load a new page the touch input in the browser will suddenly die. There's nothing actually frozen, just the webview won't respond to your finger. You can send pages from the hub to your phone, but not the other way. You have to speak with your voice to ask it nicely to please open the god damn **** browser. Because there's no **** way to get a shortcut or anything. And you need to tell it to open google, as asking it to open a browser doesn't work. The built in keyboard is junk, and doesn't support accents at all.

Don't Buy It.

The sleep tracking is actually a paid feature, with like a 10$ monthly fee or something ridiculous like that, if they ever have the balls to charge people money for this piece of trash glorified paperweight. It really would make a great paperweight tho honestly.

They've added weight so that it "feels good". Too bad the software DOESN'T EVEN SUPPORT CUTTING THE CORNERS OFF OF EVERYTHING ON THE MAIN SCREEN PROPERLY SO EVERYTIME YOU SCROLL ALL THE STUPID ROUND CORNERS ARE JUST FLASHING!! Like have they even used this piece of trash or what? AND WHY IS IT SO GOD DAMN SLOW AND LAGGY ALL THE TIME‽ Like dude, you're literally idling, can I just scroll through the home page at a something higher than 15 FPS‽

Don't buy it.

Now you're gonna ask me: "but what about the speaker". Welllll, let's talk about the speaker. It doesn't sound that bad. It's actually reasonably good.

However, in most situations, the default EQ is way too bassy. That does depend on where you put it, but in any case, you should never find that bass is lacking. However, if you know, it's like late or something and you're trying to listen to anything with the volume on the low side, this is where the cheapness of this thing really comes thru.

It's actually the hissiest thing I've ever heard, especially something that's actually brand new and it's actually supposed to be used as a speaker. The amp does go to sleep if no audio is used which is good as there's no hissing when it's not supposed to.


Don't buy it.



Woah there man, what mic? I mean seriously, what mics‽ This thing can't even hear you from when you're in bed, nevermind when you're across the room. I think it's a problem with the Google assistant, as my lenovo smart clock essential has the same issue. You can turn up the ok google sensitivity, but all that does is wake it up, and then hearing absolutely nothing of what you said.

And saying ok google is really long, annoying and obnoxious.

I've never had any trouble having my echo understand me when i yell alexa from across the house. Actually, just buy an echo device.

But don't buy this. Buy nothing. It'll save you some space on your night stand.

Oh yeah, and I forgot to add this: the google assistant is absolutely worthless. Alexa is great tho. At least for me, if your experience is backwards then... congratulations.

My left side neighbour purchased their house 40 years ago for $180k. My right side neighbour just purchsed a very similar one for over $2M. The houses are very similar. There are 2 Mustangs on my street. One is an original purchase from the 60s for about $2k. Another one is a new model for about $80k. If we keep chasing someone's great historic deal, we may never buy anything more.

The majority of people in a product deal thread are interested in a good deal on a product that's getable now (or soon). The Expired Deals thread is a great source for historic deals. expired-offers-f110/