{"id":6357,"date":"2018-07-19T13:47:31","date_gmt":"2018-07-19T03:47:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.techdaily.com.au\/b2\/?p=6357"},"modified":"2018-07-19T13:47:31","modified_gmt":"2018-07-19T03:47:31","slug":"ultimate-portable-smart-speaker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/techdaily.com.au\/b2\/ultimate-portable-smart-speaker\/","title":{"rendered":"The Ultimate Portable Smart Speaker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-6358\" src=\"https:\/\/www.techdaily.com.au\/b2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/megablast-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"175\" height=\"175\" srcset=\"https:\/\/techdaily.com.au\/b2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/megablast-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/techdaily.com.au\/b2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/megablast-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/techdaily.com.au\/b2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/megablast-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/techdaily.com.au\/b2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/megablast-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/techdaily.com.au\/b2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/megablast-55x55.jpg 55w, https:\/\/techdaily.com.au\/b2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/megablast-75x75.jpg 75w, https:\/\/techdaily.com.au\/b2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/megablast.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 175px) 100vw, 175px\" \/>If you\u2019re buying a smart speaker for the purpose of listening to music, you need to look at some of the physically larger products on the market.\u00a0 \u00a0That means you can forget products like Google Home Mini or Amazon&#8217;e Echo Dot (they have a purpose, but it&#8217;s not music).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Personally I quite like the sound of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sonos.com\/en-au\/shop\/one.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sonos One<\/a> speaker, however if you\u2019re looking for something more portable that can go anywhere, check out the the recently released <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ultimateears.com\/en-au\/wireless-speakers\/megablast.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MEGABLAST<\/a> smart speaker from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ultimateears.com\/en-au\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ultimate Ears<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">With up to 16 hours battery life, the MEGABLAST smart speaker is dust and water proof, has wifi and bluetooth connectivity&#8230;and supports the Alexa digital assistant so you can tap into a bunch of smart features.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8230;and yes the 360 degree sound is also impressive.\u00a0 Clearly a high quality product with plenty of volume.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you\u2019re buying a smart speaker for the purpose of listening to music, you need to look at some of the physically larger products on the market.\u00a0 \u00a0That means you can forget products like Google Home Mini or Amazon&#8217;e Echo Dot (they have a purpose, but it&#8217;s not music). Personally I quite like the sound of the Sonos One speaker,<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/techdaily.com.au\/b2\/ultimate-portable-smart-speaker\/\">[Read More&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6358,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[827],"tags":[1605,1639,1743],"class_list":["post-6357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-review","tag-bluetooth-speaker","tag-smart-speaker","tag-ultimate-ears"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>The Ultimate Portable Smart Speaker - Tech Daily with Andy Wells<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/techdaily.com.au\/b2\/ultimate-portable-smart-speaker\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Ultimate Portable Smart Speaker - Tech Daily with Andy Wells\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"If you\u2019re buying a smart speaker for the purpose of listening to music, you need to look at some of the physically larger products on the market.\u00a0 \u00a0That means you can forget products like Google Home Mini or Amazon&#8217;e Echo Dot (they have a purpose, but it&#8217;s not music). 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