News Summary

• Google’s $99 Home Speaker is a pretty good little speaker.
• It pumps big, rich sound out of its mesh body, and gets plenty loud for such a small device.
• There are no visible buttons or controls, and in fact nothing marring the look other than the white USB-C cable running out the back.
• The downside of all this minimalism is that it's not remotely intuitive how to use the Home Speaker..
• Compared to something like the (also similarly sized) Amazon Echo Dot Max, there's no comparison.
• It makes the Dot Max sound like a really big phone speaker.