Sonos Move review: brilliant sound now portable

Wireless smart speaker with 10-hour battery, room-filling sound, wifi and Bluetooth is not your ordinary portable speaker

Sonos has finally made a portable wifi and Bluetooth speaker that sounds great – but it’s not quite what most will have imagined.

For years Sonos has made some of the very best wifi speakers, recently adding optional voice assistants from Google and Amazon. But they have never been truly wireless, needing to be plugged in and on your home wifi network.

Dimensions: 240 x 160 x 126mm

Weigh: 3kg

Connectivity: wifi b/g/n/a, Bluetooth, USB-C, AirPlay 2, Spotify Connect

Battery: 2,500mAh for 10 hours playback, 120 hours standby, three hours to charge (900 cycles/three-year lifespan, replaceable)

USB-C charging: USB-PD 36W at 12V/3A or 15V/2.4A or 45W at 15V/3A or 20V/2.25A

Water resistance: IP56 (heavy rain/snow/fine dust), UV, extreme temperature, shocks

Slide your finger from one volume button to the other to skip track

The USB-C socket takes up to 45W for fast charging

You can pair two Moves for stereo sound but they cannot be linked to a Sub or Beam/Playbar as surround speakers

There is no analogue line-in

Voice assistants only work on wifi

The rubber base is very good at preventing vibrations passing through the speaker to the surface, even at high volumes

Pros: wifi and Bluetooth, IP56 weather resistance, durable, 10-hour battery (can be replaced), USB-C, Alexa or Google Assistant, very wide music service compatibility, Spotify Connect, AirPlay 2, Sonos multi-room audio, long expected support life

Cons: heavy, expensive, only available in black, no 3.5mm line-in, cannot be used as part of Sonos 5.1 system

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