For years, Google and Amazon have dominated the smart home space, with Apple largely sitting on the sidelines. While Apple offered the HomePod and HomePod mini, its lack of a dedicated smart display left Cupertino lagging behind the best smart home ecosystems. Meanwhile, Google has had plenty of runway with the Nest Hub, Nest Hub…
Lenovo’s little bedside clocks have spent years quietly doing the basics well: waking people up, answering questions, controlling smart-home devices, and showing the weather at a glance. That usefulness has survived Google’s messy transition from Assistant to Gemini, but earlier this year, owners of the standard Smart Clock lost convenient touchscreen controls for their smart…
