The Lenovo Smart Clock Essential is like an Echo Dot for Android owners

For good house owners, it has been a busy few weeks of bulletins: final month, Amazon unveiled its slate of latest good assistant-equipped audio system and shows then, in early October, Google revealed its new Google Nest Audio system. Now it’s time for one other producer to observe go well with: Lenovo. 

Meet the brand new Lenovo Smart Clock Essential. 

Lenovo’s newest good product makes use of Google Assistant like the brand new Google Nest Audio but it surely’s additionally a wise show that may present you the time, the day, the surface temperature and a small icon for the climate.  

Not solely is it fairly sensible, it is also pretty low-cost – it is simply $50 (£50, AU$99), which is really a bit cheaper than the Amazon Echo Dot with Clock.

Invite Google Assistant into your bed room

While you possibly can feasibly put the Lenovo Smart Clock Essential in any room of your house, its supposed place is in your bedside desk. With a built-in nightlight and a USB port for charging one other system, it is like a extremely fancy alarm clock that is aware of all the pieces about you.

Of course, this is not Lenovo’s first bed room system – there’s the unique Lenovo Smart Clock that is nonetheless, in response to Google, fairly common.

What separates it from the unique Lenovo Smart Clock is that the Essential makes use of a black-and-white alarm clock show whereas the unique has an HD shade show. 

The unique Smart Clock will stay on sale for $79.99 / £79.99 / AU$129, however you’ll be able to anticipate to see the Lenovo Smart Clock Essential in shops quickly.