New Sonos and Ikea Wi-Fi speakers are coming — what you need to know

New Sonos and Ikea Wi-Fi speakers are coming — what yous demand to know

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Information technology looks similar Sonos and Ikea have collaborated on a new range of Symfonisk speakers. Per PocketLint, Sonos teased a Symfonisk update on its Instagram page, while the Verge reported that two new speakers are on the fashion: a refreshed Symfonisk Table Lamp, and an all-new wireless speaker disguised equally a piece of wall art.

Every bit both the Table Lamp and the Symfonisk Bookshelf Speaker demonstrated, Sonos and Ikea's speaker range is designed to blend in with your home furnishings. A wall fine art speaker would certainly be the epitome of hiding in plain sight.

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PocketLint highlighted an FCC filing, applied for past Sonos and Ikea, for an unnamed "wireless device." This could very well be the wall fine art speaker revealed by The Verge, though the latter is unclear about whether the speaker is function of the frame or the art print itself. This is pure speculation on our part, but since Ikea sells a huge range of art prints it might make sense to build the Symfonisk speaker into the frame then you tin can choose your own prints to hang up.

The new Tabular array Lamp, meanwhile, will use a new design merely price around the same as the current model: $179. It's a shame there'due south seemingly no new version of the Bookshelf Speaker, since at $99 this has essentially been the most affordable Sonos-made speaker you tin can buy. Still, the Table Lamp isn't hugely expensive by Sonos standards either, and you can expect any new Symfonisk speaker to share the same compatibility with Sonos multi-room speaker systems.

Sonos is gearing up for a busy 2021 in general. In addition to these new Ikea Symfonisk speakers, it's launching the Sonos Roam — its showtime ultraportable wireless speaker — this month. We've heard whispers of a pair of Sonos headphones too, though judging from Sonos' Instagram post — and the aforementioned FCC filing being dated yesterday (April half dozen) — any new Symfonisk speaker is probable much closer to release.

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James is currently Hardware Editor at Rock Paper Shotgun, merely before that was Audio Editor at Tom's Guide, where he covered headphones, speakers, soundbars and anything else that intentionally makes noise. A PC enthusiast, he besides wrote computing and gaming news for TG, unremarkably relating to how hard information technology is to find graphics card stock.