Google Home Max is coming to Australia

Jacqui Dent - Editorial Strategist

Last updated 25 June 2018

Google Australia has announced that the Google Home Max smart speaker will go on sale in Australia for the first time this August.

This is great news for Australians who've been hanging out for a smart speaker with top-notch audio. The Google Home Max is a much larger and more powerful speaker than the standard Google Home, which failed to impress WhistleOut with its audio quality.

By contrast, the Google Home Max is 20 times louder than the standard Google Home with 4.5 inch woofers for deep bass and a Smart Sound feature that can automatically adapt sound based on where the speaker is placed in the room.

As well as superior sound quality, the Google Home Max offers all the usual Google Home benefits. You can use voice commands to control your music, your smart home devices like lights (if you have them), get cooking tips, weather forceasts, calendar appointments, news briefings and more.

While Australian pricing has yet to be announced, the Google Home sells in America for USD$399. The Google Home Max comes in charcoal or chalk colour and if you want to create a stereo effect you can buy two and pair them.

Google Australia has yet to confirm an exact release date for the Home Max. But you can sign up for an alert at the Google Store.

Jacqui Dent

Editorial Strategist

Jacqui Dent is an Editorial Content Strategist at WhistleOut Australia, where she writes about mobile phone plans, NBN plans and everything in between. Over her ten-year career, she has worked to provide informed advice to the public, first in the sphere of writing and now in the world of consumer tech. Jacqui has also written about consumer telco products for Business Insider, Pedestrian and the 50Up Club.

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