
The Nest Hub Max works through the Google Home app GearBrain Unlike the original Nest Hub, though, the Nest Hub Max has a camera, speakers, and a microphone through the 6.5 megapixel Nest camera, which allows you to both pop in to see and hear what's happening at home and use the camera and microphone to hold video calls through Google Duo. You see this in play when you launch the new Nest Hub Max, a 10-inch display seated in a fabric-covered base with a touchscreen that lets you scroll through content from YouTube, the web, and your own Google accounts. Buy Nest Hub Max at Best Buy Here for $229.99 And while a modicum of compromise was reached, Nest users are really going to need to embrace Google. There certainly have been some growing pains - Nest customers have been less than thrilled with being told their Works with Nest ecosystem was being migrated to Works with Google Assistant. Google bought Nest in 2014 for $3.2 billion and has spent the better part of 2019 figuring out how to bring the Nest smart home abilities into the Google world. The Nest Hub is the first official display that fuses the Google Home and Nest ecosystem together. We played with the Nest Hub Max and found this Google display perfect for the right user. You are the perfect person to consider this new device, especially if you're already tied to the Google ecosystem. You may think - why would I need another display? Maybe you don't even have one yet.

One of the first is the new $229 Nest Hub Max, a smart display powered by Google's smart assistant but with a Nest camera inside.

Shortly after the feature was added to the larger smart display, Google then brought the app launcher to the 2nd-generation Nest Hub. Before the end of 2021, Google surprised everyone by adding a new app launcher to the Nest Hub Max.
