Google Is Reportedly Working On An Amazon Echo Competitor

Nest revealed that it would soon work with Amazon’s Echo speaker last month and a report from Re/code said that the Nest division while it would surely love to was not currently working on a competing product. 

Rumored details are just that at the moment, but it wouldn’t be a stretch of the imagination to think that maybe the Google OnHub team is working on a future product. 

Tony Fadell went on record saying the Google OnHub was a “collaborative effort between the two companies” ultimately using Nest’s Thread technology. The Google OnHub featured some of the same functionality that another Nest product a yet to be announced wireless hub codenamed Flintstone was supposed to provide.


Source: Google OnHub

Google OnHub Routers Get Updated

Google’s latest update for it's OnHub bringing history of your internet speeds and band steering. 

The router tests your speeds every few days and will now give you an average speed over 60 days, you can see the individual test results if you like as well.

The other improvement is called automatic band steering. The router will automatically connect devices to the faster band, either 2.4GHz or 5GHz, rather than a device being stuck on a slower band.


Source: Google OnHub