Tech brand Sonos has become a mainstay for in-home entertainment, yet has announced a second venture outside with the new Sonos Roam.
The Sonos Roam delivers a diminutive connected speaker that packs a punch, both in sound quality and features.
Roam enables you to take the best of Sonos – best-in-class audio and connectivity to more than 100 streaming services – anywhere.
Weighing 430g and offering 10 hours of playback from a single charge, Roam seems geared to be a perfect portable companion.
Clever switching between wi-fi at home to Bluetooth 5.0 when mobile means that the Roam doesn’t miss a beat, and ‘Sound Swap’ enables it to seamlessly integrate into your Sonos ecosystem, making itself an addition to an existing speaker setup at the press of a button.
An eye-catching triangular matte design evokes premium stylings of other Sonos devices, also offering IP67 rated protection from bumps, splashes and scrapes.
Equally eye-catching is the price – just £159 for the Roam makes it by far the cheapest Sonos speaker to date.
“We built Roam to give customers a way to bring the Sonos experience with them wherever they go,” said Patrick Spence, Sonos CEO. “It’s not only our smartest and most versatile speaker, it’s also our most affordable.
Roam provides the opportunity for millions of new customers to get started with Sonos, and is the right product at the right time as we begin to gather again with friends and family.”
With a focus on simplicity, streaming smarts and a sharp price point, Roam seems a keen move into the competitive portable speaker market…all that remains is to judge the aural experience.
Available in Shadow Black and Lunar White, we can all get our ears on it from April 20th at Sonos’ site and participating retailers, and on pre-order from today.
