Sonos’ subsequent product, which is because of be formally unveiled subsequent Tuesday (ninth March), seems virtually sure to be a transportable Bluetooth speaker known as Roam.
As reported by The Verge and in accordance with a supply it states has “direct data of the Roam”, the Sonos Roam (pictured) measures 6.5 x 2.5 x 2.5 inches, making it a lot smaller than Sonos’ current Move Bluetooth speaker and extra corresponding to the scale of the favored UE Increase and JBL Cost.
Sonos hasn’t confirmed the existence of the Roam to the publication, however the leak carries a good bit of weight – not least as rumours of such a tool have been circling for months now and paperwork for a transportable speaker had been filed by Sonos with the FCC (Federal Communications Fee) within the US a month in the past. And let’s be trustworthy, from the picture above it does look very Sonos.
The report does not delve into all the options however does state that the Roam will include a USB charging cable, with a wi-fi charging dock supplied as an non-compulsory additional costing $49.
The Sonos Roam itself will supposedly value $169 when it goes on sale on 20th April, making it virtually half the value of the $399 Transfer and placing it instantly within the firing line of many wonderful audio system – the Audio Pro Addon T3, Amazon Echo Studio and Ultimate Ears Megablast, to call a number of.
Thoughts you, the Roam would undoubtedly come to the market with a number of unique Sonos USPs, and if this leak proves true, as we suspect it does, all must be revealed subsequent Tuesday at 9pm GMT (4pm ET, 1pm PST) when the corporate hosts its hardware launch event.
This all means that the model’s different closely rumoured product, Sonos wireless headphones, may properly be the second of the 2 merchandise it plans to launch this yr. In mild of right now’s leak, it’d simply be a while earlier than we all know that for positive.
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