Do you know that short, satisfying sound you hear when you successfully connect to a Google Smart Display or speaker? Well, Google is about to ruin everything. 9to5Google has found that the latest Nest Hub preview firmware has a much softer sound and is all kind of wrong and confusing.
Okay, so we may be exaggerating a little bit, but the new sound is legitimately less affirmative. Listen; here’s the old sound:
And here’s the new one:
This new sound appears to be only on the Nest Hub with the latest Cast v1.52 firmware. The vast majority of Smart Displays and speakers are still at v1.50, so chances are you’ll still have the old timbre for a while. As you can see, we are not fans of the new one here at AP, but tell us what you think of it.
