Google Assistant “Smart Displays” are here: It’s an Echo Show, but Googley
by Ron Amadeo from Ars Technica - All content on (#3CRMN)
Ars at CES 2018
- The best laptop of last year adds HDR, facial recognition, and 8th-gen processors
- Lenovo's new Google Assistant smart display can play YouTube videos
- HP's new 15-inch Spectre x360 uses the hybrid Intel/AMD processor
- AMD's 2018 roadmap: Desktop APUs in February, second-generation Ryzen in April
- Powermat gives in to Qi, moves wireless charging closer to uniformity
Remember the Amazon Echo Show? This is the Google Assistant version of that. Why settle for just a voice assistant when you can slap a screen on a "smart speaker" and read some of your query results?
CES 2018 is when Google Assistant smart displays will arrive. No first-party "Google Home Show" has launched yet, but LG, Sony, JBL, and Lenovo are all signed up to produce the devices. Lenovo (and probably others, soon) will show off what the devices are going to probably look like. Google says the devices will arrive "later this year."
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