The Sonos Five is $100 cheaper today at Amazon and Best Buy

If you’re looking for a quality smart speaker for yourself or as a gift for an audiophile in your life, you could do much worse than the Sonos Five. The company rebranded the speaker, which was previously called Play:5, earlier this year and it upgra...

Upcoming Google Nest smart speaker emerges in regulatory filing

Google appeared to discontinue the original Home speaker when it recently marked the product as “no longer available” in its store. That move suggested a replacement smart speaker is on the way, and now we’ve gotten what’s likely our first proper loo...

Amazon Music HD expands 3D audio library with Warner Music Group tracks

Echo Studio, one of Amazon's latest smart speakers, might sound great, but until now it offered a limited library of 3D audio through Amazon Music HD. However, if you picked up the speaker and signed up for the hi-res streaming plan, you now have mor...

Sonos offers its early adopters a 30 percent trade-in offer on new speakers

If you've been hanging onto an old Sonos speaker for forever but have been interested in switching to a recent model such as Move, One or Port, the company might tempt you further with its Trade Up program. If you have an eligible speaker, you can cl...

Samsung’s Galaxy Home smart speaker is still alive, somehow

While Samsung's Unpacked event was mostly about the Galaxy Note 10 and Note 10+, a new S Pen and a Galaxy Book S laptop, plenty of observers expected some news on the fate of Galaxy Home. Samsung announced the smart speaker a year ago, but it's been...

Samsung delays its Galaxy Home smart speaker to Q3

Samsung has delayed the release of its Galaxy Home speaker. The Bixby-powered device should be on shelves sometime between July and September. Official confirmation of the delay shouldn't be too much of a surprise, as Samsung previously told Engadget...

Qualcomm’s new chips power ‘smarter’ AI-connected speakers

Smart speakers still have a lot of room for improvement. How often have you had to shout a command over your music, or had to endure mediocre sound for the convenience of using your voice? Qualcomm believes it can do better. It's unveiling chips t...

Sonos One speaker now packs more powerful internals

How do you improve the Sonos One speaker when there aren't too many qualms about the basic design? If you ask Sonos, it's all about future-proofing. The company is rolling out a Gen 2 version of the One that shares the same design, but includes Blu...