I heard a Charge five and the sound was awesome! Unfortunately, it did not have Alexa integration. I decided to go for a Marshall Alexa powered speaker with Blue Tooth. For those using sonos, do you wish you could use it with Alexa?
Kelly On 2/10/23, 'Mervin Keck III' via VIPhone <[email protected]> wrote: > I thought about grabbing a Sonos Move this week as I have a coupon for a > discount that expires Sunday. But now I am going to wait and see if they > will refresh that model. I bought a roam last year and gave it to Nicki, my > wife, who had a specific need for it and it serves her well. The > accessibility of the Sonos system is very good except on the Mac. I made > several requests to have their Mac app as accessible as the PC and iPhone > app. > Regarding the battery status, however, I have several Sony Headphones that > will give me the battery status with the push of a button. I have two > WH1000-XM4 which still sell on Amazon for around $250 even though the XN5 > model is available for around $350. The right side of the headphones are > touch but very accessible. The left side has push buttons. One button speaks > the battery status when pushed while the headphones are in operation. > If I didn’t already own the WH1000-XM4 I would have the XM5 because of the > greater noise reduction for making calls in a crowded room. But the XN4 are > my go to headphones on the iPhone and totally accessible. > Getting back to Sonos, I have never been disappointed with their quality or > their committment to accessibility. If I lived in a house rather than an > apartment, I would own a lot more than the ten Sonos speakers that I > currently do own. > Merv > > _____ > If you have questions regarding Sonos, Fire TV, Fire Stick, Fire Cube, Echo > or other Lady A powered device, we are the oldest and largest group > dedicated to blind users: > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > > If you own an Apple Watch, let’s get uncomplicated together. We are a group > of blind users that have been around for a few years and support any ad all > models of the Apple Watch. > [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]> > > >> On Feb 10, 2023, at 11:50 AM, Angie Nutt <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Thanks for that: am interested in what the Era models will be like. >> >> While on the subject of Sonos: I was wondering recently whether there are >> any other brands who have speakers which one can speak to and get the >> information about the battery spoken back. When I discovered I had access >> to Sonos Voice I quickly got it set up and was blown away by the fact that >> I could do that. To my mind, that makes them eminently accessible. There >> are other bluetooth speakers and headphones on which one can press a >> button and get that information but this is the first time I’ve seen >> anything quite like what I can do with my Roam and Move. >> >> All the best >> Angie >> >> >>> On 9 Feb 2023, at 17:52, Sieghard Weitzel <[email protected] >>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >>> >>> Here the other article from The Verge: >>> >>> Sonos CEO says Amazon, Google aren’t "doing anything interesting" in >>> audio >>> And he doesn’t sound particularly impressed by Apple’s second-generation >>> HomePod, either. >>> By CHRIS WELCH/ Feb 8, 2023, 3:53 PM PST >>> >>> During Sonos’ Q1 2023 earnings call, CEO Patrick Spence expressed the >>> usual optimism about his company’s financial performance, sales momentum, >>> and upcoming product roadmap. This man really loves the word “flywheel,” >>> folks. But he also took clear jabs at Big Tech competitors, including >>> Amazon, Google, and Apple, for barely putting up a fight in recent >>> months. With Amazon rumored to be taking a hard look at its ambitions >>> surrounding Alexa and Echo products and Google largely focused on all >>> things Pixel, Spence said that Sonos faced no serious competition during >>> the crucial holiday quarter. “We’ve gone through fiscal Q1, which is the >>> height of the consumer electronics and audio season and we’ve seen some >>> of the traditional players go heavy discounting and, kind of like a >>> traditional playbook for consumer electronics that we’ve always fought >>> against and don’t really believe in,” he said. “And then, the big tech >>> players, we just haven’t seen them active and we haven’t seen them doing >>> anything interesting.” >>> Neither of Sonos’ primary smart speaker rivals launched any new audio >>> hardware during the holiday quarter. And Apple’s second-generation >>> HomePod arrived after it had already ended. But Sonos doesn’t seem all >>> that impressed with or concerned about Apple’s resurrected $299 device. >>> “We never want to get overconfident in these things, but you know, even >>> seeing what’s emerged recently, from Apple, I could not be more excited >>> or confident about the product roadmap we have and our ability to take >>> more and more of that $96 billion global audio market,” Spence said. >>> Google’s most recent home audio product is the aging Nest Audio, and >>> Amazon’s fall 2022 hardware event went light on smart speakers: the >>> company introduced a refreshed Echo Dot and added a new white color >>> option for the top-of-the-line Echo Studio. The regular Echo speaker was >>> last refreshed in 2020. >>> I just feel like there’s others that are probably questioning their >>> investments in this area, and we are investing in four new categories. We >>> are going >>> to raise the bar in our existing categories. I mean, we’ve got a lot >>> going on,” Spence added. >>> Sonos has said it will release a product in the first of those new >>> categories sometime in 2023. In the nearer term, Sonos will be >>> revitalizing its high-end home audio lineup with new speakers, including >>> the Era 300 and Era 100. Both are designed to showcase spatial audio and >>> Dolby Atmos. A second-generation Sonos Move portable speaker is also >>> under development, The Verge has learned. >>> Discounts on Sonos products over the holidays helped the company deliver >>> strong earnings and beat Wall Street expectations for the Q1 fiscal >>> quarter. This was the first time that Sonos had been able to offer those >>> promotions in three years; the multi-room audio leader struggled to keep >>> its speakers and soundbars in stock during the covid pandemic, facing the >>> same supply chain woes that reverberated across the tech industry But the >>> deals were back this time — even if some of them just returned Sonos >>> products to their former pricing. >>> Either way, the company put greater emphasis on bundles that boost its >>> percentage of multi-product customer households. The average number of >>> products for each Sonos household is currently 2.98. 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