Google confirms: These Nest smart speakers have ended production

Out with the outdated, in with the brand new! Change comes for us all, and proper now, Google’s lineup of smart speakers is feeling that almost all acutely. Right now, the corporate lastly begins accepting pre-orders for the brand new Google House Speaker, first introduced final yr. With this new audio answer lastly on the way in which, we’ve been very eager about studying what’s taking place to Google’s older speakers, and now we’re lastly getting some solutions.

Google tells Tech Advisor that with the arrival of the Google House Speaker, the outdated Nest Mini and Nest Audio are being put out to pasture:

As we proceed to construct the way forward for the smart house, we’re refining our portfolio of Google House and Nest units. As a part of this evolution, we have ended production of the Google Nest Mini and Google Nest Audio.

It’s not like we didn’t see this transfer coming a mile away, however that’s nonetheless unhappy information to obtain in the event you have been an ardent fan of this legacy {hardware}. Each the Nest Audio and Nest Mini had just lately began exhibiting as “out of inventory” on Google’s on-line retailer, and mixed with expectations that the House Speaker was on the brink of start gross sales, it wasn’t troublesome to kind a couple of assumptions about Google’s intentions for these units.

Even because the next-most-recent launch after our new House Speaker, the Nest Audio continues to be developing on six years outdated itself, having launched again in September of 2020.

The Nest Mini first debuted because the House Mini all the way in which again in 2017, and Google gave us the up to date second-gen Nest Mini in 2019. Contemplating how lengthy each of those speakers have been obtainable, it’s doubtless that anybody who was planning to select one up already jumped on that chance way back. That stated, we nonetheless really feel numerous love for these units — and it appears like numerous you continue to do, too.

For those who’ve obtained this {hardware} at house, go forward and hearth up your favourite playlist as we pour one out in honor of those smart speakers.