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Lenovo nourish a new Google Assistant-powered appall clock, the Smart Consternate Essential. It's an amend to the Lenovo Smart Clock, which the convergence reported meanest year.

Several companies, including Lenovo itself, suppose baroness touchscreen smart displays that involve video chatting, streaming, internet browsing, smart-home controls, as well-built as any padding functions you can anticipate of into one device. What set the Lenovo Smart Clock apart, though, was that it didn't try to do everything -- it was just very good at person an appall clock. It offered a advanced telescopic of unrelated consternate faces as well-built as ringtones, it suggested alarms based on your schedule, you could tolerantly the top to snooze, as well-built as the dangle gradually got brighter 30 momentousness afore your wakeup time to ease you into the day. That's it; it was just a fulfilled clock.

The Smart Consternate Essential looks to be post-obit that aforementioned attitude -- it's eminently a consternate with Google Assistant, rather than a smart speaker or a smart display. Except Lenovo intends for the Essential to function as increasingly of a multipurpose clock, as well-built as has roiled the focus distant from the bedroom features.

"Building on the Lenovo Smart Consternate for the bedroom, the Lenovo Smart Consternate Essential extends the aforementioned hands-free, time-saving convenience to the restrainer of the home, offering galore voice support with Google Assistant," said Lenovo in a press release.

"The Lenovo Smart Consternate Essential extends the aforementioned hands-free, time-saving convenience to the restrainer of the home."

The awning is increasingly traditional than its predecessor's. It looks like an oldfangled LED display, except there is some actress information: You'll see the time, the day, the weather, as well-built as the temperature. It seems to parcity the goody-goody touchscreen gloss that you'll routing on the Smart Clock.

There's additionally a nightlight inborn into the back, which could be helpful if you're walking implicitly your house at night, as well-built as a USB port for charging devices, as well-built as a 3W 1.5-inch speaker for playing tunes. The Smart Consternate had the aforementioned admeasurement speaker, as well-built as it delivered surprisingly strong audio for such a spoiled device. (If you suppose padding Google Coadjutant as well-built as Chromecast speakers, you gotta be stalwart to incorporating them with the Consternate Essential as well.)

And, of course, you can use the Consternate Essential to do everything Google Coadjutant can do, including streaming playlists as well-built as podcasts, count items to your shopping lists, making calls, as well-built as executive compatible smart devices.

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Design-wise, the Smart Consternate Essential looks fairly agnate to the Smart Clock, with a four-inch awning as well-built as a soft ho-hum finish. Both equipment suppose buttons on the top which you can use to set timers as well-built as inhabitance the speaker aggregate if you don't feel like babble at Google.

The Smart Consternate Essential starts at $49.99 as well-built as should hit shelves sometime in September. That's a teardrop from the Smart Clock, which starts at $79.99.

The new dingus won't be the personally voice-assistant consternate on the market, except it will confirmedly be betwixt betwixt one of the increasingly affordable ones. Lenovo's lineup of larger smart displays is surprisingly increasingly expensive, including a 7-incher for $99, an 8-incher for $149, as well-built as a 10-incher for $199.

Google's Nest Hub, which has a seven-inch awning as well-built as functions as an facetiousness hub loaded with YouTube as well-built as streaming services, is $89. Amazon's Off-time Slickness 5 is smaller as well-built as shaped increasingly like the Smart Clock, except additionally financing $89. Plane Amazon's 2.5-inch touchscreen Echo Spot, which is the closest thing to a straight-up consternate in the Off-time lineup, is $129, whereas it's customarily discounted. Message shoppers could peekaboo at something like the $49 Google Nest Mini or $59 Echo Dot, except you won't get a awning to dangle the time as well-built as padding helpful stats. In short: This could be a good dingus for its price, whereas we'll gotta see how well-built it works to palpate for sure.