hey guys it's Chris from tech advisor here at IFA 2019 and we're taking a
look at the latest sonos speaker and this is one of the ones we've been
waiting a long time for many years because this is the company's first
portable and movable speaker which is aptly named the Sonos move let's take a
look so of course you can use the Sonos move when you're indoors on your Wi-Fi
network just like all of your other Sonos speakers there's a little charging
base that you just drop it on and now keep it charged while it's plugged into
the power but as soon as you need to you can just pick it up by the handle take
it wherever you're going now obviously if you're coming outside and you're
quite close to your house it's gonna stay on Wi-Fi but this is actually the
first Sonos speaker to come with Bluetooth so when you do go too far away
from your router you can actually just switch over to bluetooth with this button if
you come in and we'll take a closer look at the design it's quite interesting
because this has got a silicone base so it's actually so it's been dropped
tested you can drop this from quite a height sonos said that in its drop test
they even broke the concrete and it's also IP 56 rated so it's gonna stay
resistant from dust sand it's also been tested with various things that you
might accidentally spill on it around the home like olive oil and ketchup all
that kind of stuff and it's waterproof as well so it can get splashed and you
can just give it a good wipe down now the battery's in the bottom here that's
good for 900 charges and each charge will give you 10 hours of playback so
that's quite a long time before it needs charging and when the battery does
eventually die you can get it replaced so the Sonos move doesn't just become one
of your normal indoor speakers because the battery's dead now on the back we've
as well as the Bluetooth button we've got a power button because obviously
this isn't going to be always plugged in so you can put it in a standby mode and
then you've also got the join button to get it as part of your network on the
top we've got the usual set of buttons we've got play/pause and and your volume
buttons as well as an LED so that will change blue
in Bluetooth mode and we've got a set of six far-field
mics so you can use your voice to control the speaker with assistants like
Alexa and Google assistant and possibly more in the future so let's talk about
the sound what does what's the Sonos Move got
inside it well it's got a front-facing mid woofer that covers most of the
frequencies and then we've actually got an interesting downward facing tweeter
which is the the sound from that tweeters guided by something called a
waveguide so that the sound comes out of the front as well as the sides at the
same time now obviously a speaker that you move around a lot is going to sound
different depending on where you put it because the room is going to be
different surfaces change acoustics and actually outdoors is a really tricky
place to have a speaker because there You've just got so much space to
fill with sound so an existing sonos feature that you might know is true play
where the speaker can auto-tune itself to the environment that it's in and
normally you'd have to do this by walking around the room with your phone
using the mics on that to tune the device but the move actually does
that by itself so there's an accelerometer in there so it knows when
it's been picked up and moved around and then it would tune itself depending on
where you've put it so if I put it on the ground
if I go back indoors put it somewhere else it's going to auto tune so that the
sound is consistent basically the moves going to come on September the 24th and
it's going to cost 399 pounds dollars and euros so there we go a quick look at
the Sonos move the first Bluetooth and portable speaker from Sonos