Some people won't care a lick about sleep tracking and if that's you, you have no more reason to buy the updated Nest Hub today than you had to buy the first-gen Hub before. Meh, if you're looking for great sounding audio and you've already bought into the Google Nest ecosystem (or decided you want to), the Nest Audio is the no-brainer choice for you.
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With the new Nest Hub, Google didn't try to fix anything that wasn't broken and the end result is a device that's better in several respects than its predecessor without any discernible trade-offs. Sure, the bezel is still dummy thicc, but it's the only part of the Nest Hub you can really say that about -- besides, of course, the 50% (according to Google) louder bass response, which is definitely more Meghan Trainor than Twiggy this time around.
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