The unit has a battery life of about 10 hours and I was impressed by the sound quality as demonstrated – Sonos’ engineers have put a lot of work into making sure the speaker and the downward-firing tweeter fit into the compact space the unit required to remain portable while still offering top-quality sound.
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Once you’ve paired, every time you hit that button and pop out of Bluetooth mode, if the device you paired it with is close to, it will find it and just keep playing,” he said. A simple button press will pop it out of Wi-Fi mode and into Bluetooth mode. Switching between Wi-Fi and Bluetooth is accomplished by the push of a buttonĪrchitectural category hardware product manager Benji Rappoport said switching between wireless and Bluetooth modes was literally as simple as pressing a button, at least once the phone or smart device was paired with the Move. I think our customers will be, too.”īeing a truly portable speaker, the Move is designed to be equally at home in the living room as it is outside, and functions with both Wi-Fi and Bluetooth connections. “Then, toss this thing around, see how it stands up. “You can imagine someone’s internal monologue being like, ‘Oh, they’re great in the home but how are they outside the home?’,” he said.
Mr Mask said the Move was a step into new territory for Sonos, but the team were proud of what they had created and were expecting a positive reception, describing the unit as “a best in class product”. “We tested it even in a myriad of ways beyond what you’ve seen in there … We’re super confident that it’s going to stand any and all elements that someone could throw into it – within reason.” The Sonos Move is designed to offer a premium sound experience no matter where the user deploys it. Red wine, mustard, lotion, anything you can think of. We actually have a synthetic sweat that we developed just to test in the product. “We find all sorts of different liquids to test it in, even above and beyond. We’ve thrown it in dust, we’ve dropped it from six feet – it actually broke a piece of concrete in one of the drop tests,” he said. Product marketing lead Allen Mask said Sonos were maniacal about quality and ran “the most ridiculous scenarios that you could think of, even in our products in the home”, adding the Move (designed to go beyond the home) required testing taken to the next level. Weighing 3kg, he Move speaker unit can also reportedly play audio at temperatures of up to 55 degrees Celsius and withstand temperatures of up to 70 degrees Celsius in storage, and have undergone a rigorous testing program encompassing everything from prolonged exposure to UV rays to having tomato sauce spilt on them to being blasted with sand and deluged with water – it has an IP56 rating as a result. The Move is being released in Australia on September 24 with an RRP of $649 and was unveiled at a special invite-only media event in New York recently, where a select group of technology journalists were able to get up close with the unit and see it in operation for the first time, along with learning more about the testing process it had been put through to ensure it would handle everything the outdoors had to throw at it. The Sonos Move is set for a September 24 release and looks ready to bridge the gap between inside and portable speakers. Speaker company Sonos may have developed something which ticks all those boxes, in the form of the Sonos Move – a wireless speaker designed to work equally well in your home or at the beach, or in the forest, or at the park, or wherever you are.
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