Sonos one the latest addition to the Sonos range is getting a colourful makeover.

From September 2018 Sonos One will be available in red, yellow and green. This is thanks to a partnership with Danish design company HAY. The range is limited edition and aptly called ‘HAY for Sonos Limited Edition collection’.

Sonos One is Sonos’s smart speaker with integrated Alexa voice assistant. The new limited edition One will also feature this smart functionality.

Sonos commented the new speaker will also be compatible with Air Play 2. This will allow users to easily stream music from any Apple device to their Sonos speaker or any grouped Sonos speaker.

The price for the new colourful Sonos One will be £229, compared to the standard price of £199. It will be available at its flagship store in London as well as online on Sonos.com

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Sonos, the speaker experts, are about to open their first new store outside USA and yes you guessed it right its coming to London!!

The store is going to be located in Covent Garden, just 5 minutes’ walk from the hugely popular Apple shop.

(Map showing exactly where the shop is in relation to the Apple Store)

The store opens just in time for Christmas, 16 November 2017.

It is 2,500 Square meters and boasts two ‘listening rooms’ where the public can take the speakers for a test drive. This is a tried and tested concept and something competitor Bang & Olufsen have been doing for a while with their stores. The concept is simple, make a room with an optimal acoustic and tech setup to immersive the potential customer in the amazing sound and solution. Something normally impossible in a busy retail environment.

Sonos have commented in interviews the store is designed to be “minimalistic” and really allow the public to discover and experience Sonos.

This is a very important time for Sonos with more and more companies trying to muscle in on the speaker market. For example, Amazon with its whole house audio Alexa solution.
Recently Sonos released Sonos One with an integrated Amazon Alexa assistant. The speaker allows you to control it via your voice as well as the normal application or remote.

This is probably the product they will be trying to push the most with its new retail store and the vast growth in voice controlled tech.

We will visit the store soon and let you all know what it is like and if it it is worth a special trip!
For more information on Sonos, read our Sonos Review.

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Recently launched in the UK, Google Home uses Google Assistant to access Googles endless services as well as other connected smart gadgets. All you need to do is talk to it.

This week Google has advertised a job at its London office for a writer to help give this Google Assistant a human touch and personality.

In the advert they state:

“Google Assistant Personality team is dedicated to bringing a bit of fun and human touch to people interacting with the Google Assistant through chat, phones, TVs, watches, Google Home and other devices we haven’t even thought of yet”

This highlights how seriously Google are taking it’s virtual assistant and in turn Home. The advert also gives insight into how they want people to interact with Google Home by asking for a specific type of person to write it’s Assistant:

“You might have previously written for a character for film, TV, video game, or comic book who can deliver a joke that can make anyone smile or you’re the person at the party who wins the trivia contest because you can finish the fun film quote or recite obscure music lyrics.”

This indicates they plan on making Google Assistant fun and engaging, much like how Apple have tried with Siri. After all everyone loves asking voice assistants silly questions – just to see the reply!

Here is a link to the full job advert if this sounds like it could be for you.

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