Google Home Speaker review: the $100 speaker, the company's first such device in six years, works for Gemini power users but has underwhelming music playback (Chris Welch/Bloomberg)

<a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2026-06-24/google-home-speaker-review-impressive-ai-underwhelming-audio-quality"><img align="RIGHT" border="0" hspace="4" src="http://www.techmeme.com/260624/i21.jpg" vspace="4" /></a> <p><a href="https://www.techmeme.com/260624/p21#a260624p21" title="Techmeme permalink"><img height="12" src="http://www.techmeme.com/img/pml.png" style="border: none; padding: 0; margin: 0;" width="11" /></a> Chris Welch / <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/">Bloomberg</a>:<br /> <span style="font-size: 1.3em;"><b><a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2026-06-24/google-home-speaker-review-impressive-ai-underwhelming-audio-quality">Google Home Speaker review: the $100 speaker, the company's first such device in six years, works for Gemini power users but has underwhelming music playback</a></b></span>&nbsp; &mdash;&nbsp; The Google Home Speaker is the first new device of its kind to come from Alphabet Inc. in six years.</p>