Tuesday, January 5, 2021

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Google's Nest Hub may be getting an update for the first time back its graduating in 2018. The convergence registered a new "interactive device" at the Federal Communications Commission that'll full-length a screen, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, and Zigbee support, furthermore with what seems to be Google's Soli radar gesture technology.

Taken together, it seems that Google has a new smart home device of some thickness on the way; as 9to5Google credibility out, that "interactive device" nomenclature is agnate to what Google uses for its other smart devices like the proleptical Nest Hub, Nest Hub Max, Nest Mini, Nest Wifi, and Nest Audio.

The enlargement of Zigbee -- a postulated smart home networking standard -- would help lend whatever the new device is plane bulkiest into smart home setups. And Soli tech has appeared in Google's smart home devices before, like the entry-level Nest Thermostat revealed last year, which uses the technology for detecting back users are nearby.

According to the FCC filing, the unknown smart device is rated for the same, broader 58-63.5 GHz range of frequencies as the Pixel 4, which, unlike the Nest Thermostat, acclimated the Soli technology for its Motion Sense gestures. It's exhaustible to noodle Google using the radar technology for motion gestures on a next-generation adaptation of its tenderize Nest Hub, which lacks the microchip camera that the limitlessness Nest Hub Max once uses for agnate gestures.

Lastly, the Nest Hub is one of Google's oldest smart home products (having launched rearmost in October 2018). It categorically predates the use of the Nest bluecoat for Google's smart home products -- the device first was revealed as the Google Home Hub -- therefore it's probably due for a refresh.

Unfortunately, the FCC filing doesn't unclose many other furnishing for the mysterious product. Except if Google is once working on superintending registration, we may not okay too long to wait.