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Echo Dot vs. Nest Mini: Putting Amazon's and Google's smart speakers to the test from amazon

Can you guys help me with my decision?

I'm looking for something to keep by my bed to use as a clock and an alarm, with a good music service, and something that can answer questions for me. The one thing I won't use with it is smarthome.

Which one do you think fits me best?

My main purpose is to just play around with some smart light bulbs for now. I’ve read all the comparisons. I know Alexa has better compatibility and dot 3 has better speaker with aux. Home mini is better for being an assistant cause of Google Assistant.

Overall, which one do you recommend as my first buy? Thanks in advance!

Google's Nest Mini vs. Amazon's Echo Dot: Pick Your Assistant from gadgets

What should i buy? The nest mini is around 43$ and the echo dot is about 50$ in my area.

I got an echo dot a few days ago with intentions of making a smart dorm in the fall, but I’m feeling a bit unsatisfied since it doesn’t do what I expected it to and sucks with a lot of search queries beyond a simple fact or two. Also, I didn’t realize that the nest could play my downloaded music library through google music before. If I had known that, I would’ve leaned towards the nest.

Anyway, I just want to know if the echo dot is worth keeping or if I should make the switch, since most of the info I found online is pretty outdated (from like 2018 or 2019).

Thanks!

Completely new to HA. We’re a 100% Apple household, but we made the change to HA because i wanted to use Zigbee2MQTT with a CC2531 adapter.

But now I want to get a speaker/assistant. I want to use it for basic usage like controlling the home, checking the weather, but also maybe other things in the future. The only reason I’m not interested in the HomePod is because of the spicy price.

So what do you think? Which is best for HA integration and maybe iOS integration? Google nest mini or Amazon Echo Dot?

I mainly want to use it for music and possibly controlling lights. I am undecided on which is quicker and better.

I am conflicted on which one to get as I use google applications such as google calendar and google keep which means the nest would be better for obvious reasons. I have also heard that the accuracy of google search is better than the echo dot. But there are some appealing things about the echo dot especially the led clock and apps like google calendar are still compatible with the echo dot. I also have apple devices and I have heard that google nest works better with android. It also seems that the echo dot is more popular in general. Another minor thing is that alexa is a lot easier to say that hey google or okay google which can be more difficult to catch.

Any advice?