By Jon Porter
Announced at IFA 2017, the SC-GA10 is Panasonic’s first foray into the world of smart speakers.
In case you’ve been living under a rock right now, smart speakers are the latest craze right now, with manufacturers all over the world rushing to produce speakers that are capable of listening, and responding to, your every request.
Rather than building their own smart assistants to power these speakers, manufacturers are instead drawing upon the existing efforts of experts like Amazon and Google.
While others have hedged their bets as to which intelligent AI will come out ahead by supporting both of them, Panasonic has come out firmly in favor of team Google. The SC-GA10 features full support for Google Assistant, which means that it will integrate with the latest smartphones and anything that’s Google Assistant compatible – and that includes other smart speakers. More or that later.
Audio first
With most smart speakers now supporting the same small number of voice assistants, the race is on to find points of differentiation. The Panasonic SC-GA10’s unique selling point is its audio quality.
Inside this speaker you’ll find two 20mm tweeters paired with an 8cm woofer to round out the base. This dual woofer has …read more
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