Rumor: Google will soon release cheap Nest thermostat with Soli radar

Google is said to be releasing its cheapest thermostat under the Nest brand to date in the coming weeks. The new Nest should cost $ 129 and rely on gesture control with the Soli radar, a technique that is also in the Pixel 4 smartphone. Soli on Pixel 4 The gestures include swiping up and down and moving towards or away from the thermostat by hand, claims Bloomberg financial news agency. The thermostat should go on sale for $ 129 sometime in the coming weeks. The Nest Thermostat-E costs 179 euros, the Nest V3 is currently in the Pricewatch for 199 euros. The lower price is said to be due to a plastic housing and is in line with Google’s strategy to put hardware in the store at lower prices. Bloomberg reasons. The Pixel 5 costs 629 considerably less than the predecessor Pixel 4, which cost 749 euros. In addition, Pixel phones were getting cheaper models, and Google said earlier that the Pixel 4’s Soli radar would be back in other products. Last month, a new Nest thermostat was featured in an FCC inspection and Droid-Life wrote that the documentation shows that it has a 60GHz transmitter and receiver. That is the frequency that Google uses for Soli. The Soli radar works with radio waves, in the case of Soli between 57 and 64GHz. Google uses two modulation architectures: frequency modulated continuous wave and direct-sequence spread spectrum. The radio signals echo back from an object or, as is the intention with the Pixels, your head or hand. It is unknown whether 3D face recognition technology, similar to Apple’s Face ID, will return to other Google products.