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Sonos Cyber Monday Deals are Here: One is $50 Off, Five is $100 Off, and More

Kellen November 30, 2020 2

Sonos expanded its set of devices with discounts for Cyber Monday, dropping the Sonos One, One SL, and Five for the day. They are still discounting Move, Beam, and Sub at Black Friday levels. The Sonos One, their smallest smart speaker, is $149 today ($50 off)...

Sonos Black Friday Deals Arrive Early: $100 Off Move, Beam, and Sub

Kellen November 25, 2020

Sonos is one of those companies that has seemingly gone out of its way to host deals on its premium smart speakers. That has changed some in recent years as Google and Amazon introduced competitors that are almost always on sale, but it's still a big deal when...

Lack of Sonos Casting in YouTube Music is a Dealbreaker

Kellen November 14, 2020 24

We are in the final days of Google Play Music and (unsurprisingly) YouTube Music still lacks features to put it on equal footing with its outgoing music relative. There's one missing feature in particular that is going to be a dealbreaker for many, though....

Sonos and Google are Going to Battle Over Audio Patents (Updated: Google Countersues)

Kellen June 12, 2020

Sonos, maker of high-end audio that kicked off the multi-room media industry years before everyone else caught on to the brilliant concept, is suing Google over patents it holds on that very technology. You probably don't need me to explain this, but Sonos is...

Google Brings Assistant’s Voice Match, Other Features to 3rd Party Smart Speakers

Kellen June 11, 2020 4

Today I learned that some of the best features of Google Home units have long been missing from 3rd party smart speakers made by companies like Bose and Sonos. This week, Google is going to try and address that. The features I'm referring to are Voice Match,...

New Sonos S2 App Arrives, Time to Make Some Decisions

Kellen June 8, 2020 5

The new Sonos app (dubbed "Sonos S2") is here, so if you own Sonos products, depending on the level of support they have been given going forward, you have some decisions to make. We talked at length about the new Sonos S2 app in early May and you will want to...

Sonos’ New S2 App is Coming and Your System Might be Impacted

Kellen May 6, 2020

To kick off 2020, Sonos pissed off a lot of people who own some of their original products. They tried to explain at the time that support for select older products would soon come to an end because they lacked the modern parts that could help the company...

Set Sonos Speakers as Your Default Speaker for Google Assistant Devices

Tim February 17, 2020

Sonos has been in the news a bit recently, not always for the best of reasons, but this particular news is good for Sonos and Google Assistant users. Detailed by 9to5Google and various reddit users, Google Assistant users can now set select Sonos speakers as...