As we head into the craziest holiday shopping weekend of the year, we wanted to give the Droid Life community a chance to start things off with a bang, a melodic bang. The folks at SONOS are running a holiday promotion this year that involves a Wireless HiFi Bundle for $299. The bundle includes a PLAY:3 speaker and Bridge. It’s like the ultimate starter kit for anyone who has been needing a reason to turn their house into a wireless musical haven. The bundle will be available at Target, Best Buy, Amazon and Sonos.com. 

Sonos is one of those tech companies that seems to get it. When they made their initial push into your living rooms, they put their Hi-Fi sound systems into the hands of as many tech minds as possible to help spread the word. It seems to have paid off, because their products have seemingly blown up over the last year. But rather than ignore them like so many other companies and focus on new goods, they continue to work on improvements that will benefit current customers. While the speakers themselves can’t really be updated once a customer purchase them, they are choosing to focus on the software used to run them.

The latest example is the update for the Sonos Controller that came out today on Android, iPhone and iPad. For Android, they released a tablet-optimized version, that when in landscape, mimics the desktop version. It’s as fully-featured an app as you’ll find anywhere. It also looks beautiful now that they have included much larger album art pictures. For the iPad version has even been built to take advantage of the new retina display. Keep at it, Sonos.

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The Sonos Controller app for Android found itself a much needed update this morning, bringing it to version 3.6. Included in the update is support for more tablets like the Kindle Fire, more Spotify features (new releases and top tracks), and the addition of Slacker Radio to its music services.

If you own any of their HiFi speaker systems, be sure to update the software on all of your portable devices, but on your PC and Macs as well.

Our Sonos review.  

The folks at Sonos have been doing a great job at keeping up support for the Android app that powers all of their wireless HiFi systems.  Today, they introduced the next version of their controller app (Android only) to include support for SD installs and other languages, but the biggest piece has to do with the fact that it supports their brand new PLAY:3 speaker unit.

This new all-in-one unit produces all of the same “Big Sonos sound” that we saw in our review of their PLAY:5 units (formerly S5), only in a smaller package.  Looks like they are weighing in at $299, making it a little easier to convince that special someone in your life that you need one.  You can find out more at the links and video below.  

The folks at Sonos are doing everything they can to make sure you are all aware of their new Sonos Controller app on Android and how it can turn your wireless home sound system into something really special.  The app is now available for free and can power your entire Sonos setup from any room in your house as long as you are connected to your WiFi network.  Multi-room control is something I hadn’t imagined before receiving a bundle of products from Sonos, but I’m now trying to imagine how I could ever live without it.  

If you are a music lover and happen to own a Sonos wireless music player like the S5, then news of a controller app for your Android device should make your day.  Sonos produces award winning wireless music systems for your home and their new app will allow you to control it from anywhere in your house using your phone.  The app brings you access to internet radio stations, services like Pandora or Spotify, and of course, lets you stream your entire music library.

The app will be officially announced next week at MWC and available for free in the Android Market by late March.  A video intro is waiting for you after the break.