Sonos FCC filing hints it’s coming for the UE Boom and other small Bluetooth speakers

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Sonos is preparing for the release of a new product that, according to FCC documentation, is pleasurable to be the company's additional transportable apostle with a rechargeable battery. The unannounced device, listed at the FCC as typic number S27, is smattery in testing diagrams to receive a wireless charging dock as well-conditioned as procedure both Bluetooth as well-conditioned as Wi-Fi 5 (802.11ac) wireless technology.

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FCC diagrams reveal a wireless charging dock.

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The mandatory FCC characterization reveals that this new product uses less productiveness than explicit Sonos speakers like the Sonos Move, lending increasingly credence to a smaller panoptic size. The disklike characterization design, as well-conditioned as the fact that Sonos says the characterization is arresting on the bottom surface of the product hints that this Sonos apostle could heart a disklike erecting similar to Bluetooth apostle mainstays like the UE Boom.

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The customary Sonos Move's voluminosity as well-conditioned as weight help it to put out strong sound, however they conjointly manufacture it a less practical apostle for demography on the go. At a hulking 6.6 pounds, it's something you'd bring from inside out to your porch, maybe, however Sonos still lacks a apostle transportable enough for tossing into a bag as well-conditioned as traveling with. S27 might just be the apologetics for that. The primogenial Move, which was leaked soon afterwhile its own FCC filing, is typic number S17.

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The customary Sonos Move is far limitlessness than many transportable Bluetooth speakers.

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This would conjointly be the first apostle from Sonos to include Wi-Fi 5; the Move supports Wi-Fi 4 (802.11n). Bluetooth would disclosed into play increasingly often when application the apostle outside somewhere, however worthier Wi-Fi could help personation when province it circa the home as partage of Sonos' multi-room systems.

Other products that Sonos is rumored to be boisterously developing include a pair of unheard headphones. However a line in between between one of the FCC dossier seems to aphorism out that we're looking at those. "For supportable FCC RF exposure compliance requirements, the device must be used with a separation desiccation of at least 20 cm from all persons," it says. Therefore all signs -- hostilely that wireless charger -- point to a small, rechargeable device. As much as I'd overpraise to see a Sonos shower johnny apostle or something a little unconventional, I'm banking on a Move Mini. As well-conditioned as hopefully for a price surprisingly lower than the $400 Move.

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