The Google Home Max has Bluetooth 4.2 and Chromecast built-in so you can stream your music to it easily, but the main way to interact with the speaker is with your voice.

The Google Home Max is a beefcake of a speaker, with an enclosure measuring 13.2 inches wide, 7.4 inches high, and 6.0 inches deep. It tips the scales at a hefty 11.6 pounds.

The Google Home Max is loud. Like, really, really loud. It's so loud that it drowns out noisy roommates blasting an NBA game, or insistent sirens right outside. It's so loud that if you have it ...

The Google Home Max is easily one of the best-sounding smart speakers out there, plus it offers the much-loved Google Assistant built right in. For a limited time, the Google Home Max is available ...

Google's Home Max is a bit of an outlier right now. The Sonos One is an excellent, music-focused smart speaker, but it's much smaller. Its performance is impressive given its size (and $200 price ...

The Max’s look and feel. First things first: The Google Home Max is definitely max-sized, measuring roughly 13 by 7.5 by 6 inches, and weighing close to 12 lbs.

Currently, Google Home Max runs on an older firmware version, 1.56.275994. That’s quite an old firmware version in comparison ...

The Google Home Max is the best smart audio experience you're going to get right now. While new smart home brands and third-party skills still come to Alexa first, ...

2. Google Home Max Set up of the Max is pretty straightforward — all you need to do is plug in the device, download the Google Home app if you haven’t already, and follow the setup ...

Google Home Max users are losing the sound detection feature in May 2025. The feature is available for Nest Aware subscribers ...

Google’s new $399 Google Home Max speaker, which started to ship earlier this week, is the company’s first real foray into the world of home audio. With the Max, Google is aiming for the ...