Tag archive: Sonos

If you’re looking for another source of music in the crowed sea of internet radio providers, you might do well to take a listen to what Sonos and Slacker Radio have to say. Both companies have teamed up and as of today Slacker Radio services are now available on Sonos wireless music systems. Of course with so many internet radio options to choose from, why should Sonos customers and internet music lovers care? Put simply, Sonos and Slacker Radio… Read More

Running apps on a smartphone is one thing – you can jot down notes, play Angry Birds, and send instant messages to a co-worker. When your phone connects to a gadget like the Sonos Play:3 or a toy like the Griffin Helo TC, everything changes: Your phone communicates with material objects, becoming a central hub for your home entertainment system, RC cars, and even as a baby monitor. Here are eight cool smartphone-controlled gadgets that let you… Read More

Details on RIM's BlackBerry music app leaked out today from CrackBerry. According to their report, the music service is priced at $5 a month. However, BlackBerry owners will be able to activate a free trial of the application after downloading the BlackBerry music app. After activation, the user can download up to 50 songs at a time onto the phone. While the amount is extremely minuscule compared to Spotify's offline caching of up… Read More

Imagine a set of speakers in every room that can play different sound, link together, or perform whatever audio wizardry your heart has so long desired. Well, we don't promote magic, but Sonos may have already figured it out. Today, the company introduces the new Sonos Play:3 line of speakers, a $299 speaker powerful enough to fill a room by itself, but smart enough to play a small part in a massive speaker network, if that's what… Read More

Something interesting is happening in the tech market. Companies that generally might compete with Apple are choosing instead to partner with them. Both Sonos and Pioneer are becoming Apple partners to leverage the iPad, iPhone, and iPod products, while companies like Sony and Samsung are competing with the company. Sony is putting a lot of effort into its new S1 and S1 tablets to run against the iPad, while Panasonic and Sonos use the tablets… Read More

Sonos is known for its multi-room speaker systems, but today it introduced some major upgrades that let Apple and Android users better listen to music all around their homes. These new features make Sonos's speaker systems some of the most flexible we've seen. AirPlay access Those who have Sonos speaker systems can now download a firmware update that enables instant support of AirPlay, Apple's wireless technology for streaming… Read More

With a controller app for the iPhone and iPad, it was only a matter of time before Sonos expanded its way onto Android, and that day has finally come. Audiophile Android owners everywhere can now give up Adronos (the unofficial controller app for Sonos) and pick up the real version, which allows a smartphone or tablet to serve as a multimedia controller for Sonos systems. As with the iPhone and iPad versions, listeners can queue up songs from… Read More

I’m looking back at all of the products I’ve reviewed and used in 2010, and 10 favorites clearly stood out. Each has earned a place in my heart as particularly great. To get on this list, the product had to be something I use regularly and enjoy.

Adding yet another accessory to its streaming music system, Sonos announced the WD100 wireless iPod Dock on Thursday at CEDIA 2010. The slim white dock charges the iPod Touch just like any other, but also pipes music from it – and even the audio from apps like Pandora – to any Sonos-equipped room in the house.

As amazing as Sonos’ dedicated CR200 home theater controller is, the company just keeps giving us more and more great alternatives to buying it. Besides being able to control your music from an iPhone, iPod, Mac or PC, the now the company has set its eyes on even bigger turf with an iPad-specific app scheduled for August. The new app will take advantage of the iPad’s generous screen with a multi-pane view that fits more information on the screen… Read More

A new free update to the Sonos system will introduce the iheartradio service, new alarm settings, and more languages. The update will allow users to tune in to over 750 radio stations in all genres, from rock, to rap, to talk radio. The Sonos system that we recently reviewed and gave a 9.5 out of 10 to, seamlessly allows you to access music on your iPhone, iPod Touch, and now iPad from anywhere in your house and stream it to the Sonos stereo.… Read More

Home music gear maker Sonos has long offered multi-room digital music systems that hook together via a wireless mesh network to make entire digital music libraries—plus Internet streaming—available in any room and controllable with wireless remotes. But the systems haven't exactly been inexpensive, especially considering users still need to hook up speakers of some sort to each wireless ZonePlayer unit. Sonos looks remove some barriers to… Read More

The Sonos Digital Music System by Sonos is designed to bring your digital music files from your PC or Mac to other areas of your home. At the heart of the Sonos system are two components which interact together to provide a wireless entertainment experience no matter what room you may be in. The Digital Music Network?s primary purpose is to be able to bring simultaneous, or different if you so desire, streams of your computer music to remote… Read More