Lenovo’s Smart Clock is the Google Assistant’s answer to the Echo Spot

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  The front and back of the Lenovo Smart Clock. [credit: Lenovo ]

Google is slowly catching up to Amazon in the smart display space, and, after the release of several third-party displays and Google's own Home Hub, it's time for a new form factor. First out of the gate is the Lenovo Smart Clock, which takes all the software you'd find in a Google Smart Display and shrinks it down to a tiny form factor. It's the Google ecosystem's answer to the Echo Spot.

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View more storiesThe previously released Lenovo Smart Display comes in 10- and 8-inch form factors, and the Google Home Hub has a 7-inch display. The Lenovo Smart Clock is down to a tiny 4-inch display, and it seems positioned as a bedside alarm clock based on the press images. Unlike Lenovo's bigger smart display, which has a hard plastic back, the Smart Clock totally apes Google's cloth-based design, looking just like a Google Home product.

Lenovo was nice enough to include a real spec sheet for its smart display, so we know this has a 4-inch, 800i-480 touchscreen, a 1.5GHz MediaTek 8167S SoC (that's four Cortex A35 cores and a PowerVR GE8300 GPU), 1GB of RAM, and 8GB of onboard storage. Under the cloth back there's a 1.5-inch 3W speaker (with a peak power of 6W) and two passive radiators. There's a set of volume buttons on the top, a mute microphone switch in the back, and a power port. One nice touch is an extra USB-A port on the back, which is meant for charging your phone on a bedside table.

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