Lenovo Smart Display makes Google Assistant a smart home sidekick

Lenovo's Smart Display puts Google Assistant on 8- and 10-inch touchscreens. The result is a smart-home sidekick that adds a visual element to all the rich A.I. features we've already seen in the Google Home smart speaker. Announced Monday night at CES and due to ship around July, it's still too early to see how well Lenovo's Smart DIsplays will compare to Amazon's Echo Show (which earned high marks in our TechHive review). The hypervigilant Google product managers who orchestrated our briefing carefully focused the demo around what the Smart Displays could already do well, and shied away from features where the kinks were still being worked out. In short, I was allowed to try only specific, pre-vetted tasks (more on my experiences below).