And is that Google has just released an update for the small speaker Google Home Mini, in which re-enable touch functionality that they took away at the beginning of its launch. We have to emphasize that this function was active in the beginning, it is not something that can be implemented to the device through a software update, what happens is that due to a major problem Google decided to deactivate it and now they have activated it again.
In this update the touch response is implemented again, but in this case you have to press for a while for the touch to work. At the beginning, simply by swiping your finger across the top you could execute a command, now you have to touch for a longer time to activate a function which in part makes it impractical.
Undoubtedly this solution is important but it does not seem to convince the users of this small Google speaker, who saw this functionality truncated a few days after its launch due to a problem that was reported in the Android Police medium, and shortly after in several Most web pages that had this feature removed by software. The problem is that the command register was activated with a ghost touch and constantly, so the company chose to eliminate this function until the problem was solved.
In this case, with the new update launched by Google, the possibility of using the upper touch part to activate and listen to a command is returned to the small speaker, but the touch has to be longer at this time which makes the experience between the that have already received the update is not the desired one. The bottom line is that they have fixed the problem and they have not needed to change any hardware.