After a few generations (if you count the OnHub) Google Wifi has become a decent product and largish player in the home mesh networking market. Their original Google Wifi is great, and was improved on with Nest Wifi which melded a Nest Home Mini smart Speaker with the Google Wifi router. It was a more expensive option, now it appears Google is going back to basics with a new Google Wifi.
A codename, ‘Breeze’, for a new device found by 9to5Google in the Google Wifi app is also linked to the model number “GJ2CQ” in the same app. The speculation is that this is a new Google Wifi device as code in the app checks to see if the device is ‘Gale’, the codename for the original Google Wifi.
An animation for connecting the new router to a modem is also present in the app, which shows it’s a router not just an access point like the Nest Wifi access points which expand your mesh network.
While the model number matches the style of recent submissions for Google hardware to the FCC, it hasn’t quite made it there yet. But that’s not to say the router won’t be announced alongside the new Nest Smart Speaker, Android TV ‘Sabrina’ dongle and of course the Pixel 4a (5G) and Pixel 5 phones at the event on September 30th.
A new, cheaper Google Wifi? Count me in.
