Google Home Mini review: a brilliant little £50 voice assistant speaker

Google Home Mini is the company's new smart speaker that shrinks down all the intelligence into a cheaper, smaller package. The Home Mini joins last year's Home and the upcoming Home Max smart speakers housing the Google Assistant, the voice assistant housed in most Android smartphones that has access to your Google profile and its various bits of information. Google Home Mini is a wifi-connected smart speaker that looks like a small fabric-covered pin cushion. It comes in a grey, black or coral with a colour-matched plastic base and rubber foot to keep it from sliding about when you prod it. There is a row of four LEDs in the top that light up when you speak to it or adjust the volume.