The design is nicer and an improvement, even if these things matter little for a product that’s forever hidden away behind your television screen. There’s still a Micro USB port for supplying power to the device. Google designer Katie Morgenroth says it looks “like a little macaron.” To me, the 2018 Chromecast looks like an oversized piece of Mentos.īuy for $35.00 from B&H Photo Buy for $35.00 from Best Buy Buy for $30.00 from GoogleĮither way, I prefer it over the glossy, scratches-if-you-look-at-it-the-wrong-way style of the second-gen hardware. It trades the Chrome logo of older models for the same Google “G” stamp found across the Made by Google lineup of Pixel phones, Home speakers, and Chrome OS devices. The new Chromecast is still a round dongle that hangs down when plugged into your TV’s HDMI port. There are very slight improvements, but whereas the Pixel 3 is a showcase of how far Google’s hardware efforts have come, the third-generation Chromecast feels a bit stuck in place.
And it’s still a streaming gadget that is completely dependent on other devices - such as your smartphone - for telling it what content to play. The best it can do for video quality is still 1080p. And it’s not hard to understand why: the latest Chromecast is very, very similar to the prior model.
Google didn’t say a word about its newly refreshed Chromecast onstage in New York last week.
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