Where is the new Google Home?

Google Home Speaker in spring 2026

Will the Google Home smart speaker ever get a release date?

In October 2025, Google finally announced that its smart speaker ecosystem was getting a new member. The Google Home Speaker was given a vague release date of spring 2026, and it would be equipped with Gemini, the AI model from Google, to provide more advanced smart home functionality.

Well, if you haven’t checked out your calendar in the last few months, it’s currently spring 2026. In fact, we’re more than halfway through spring 2026, with only one more month to go before it’s officially summer 2026. Unfortunately, there has been no news, no release date, and no announcement of the Google Home Speaker since then.

So what is Google waiting for? Surely, Google has some kind of release date in mind if the device is actually going to release in the next month. And if not, Google should probably start ramping up the “sorry for…