Sonos One: Voice control for Sonos is not supported in your country, yet

I mean, the only location restricted feature on alexa is what is the weather, and you can just say "alexa what is the weather in Rotterdam, Netherlands" and it works. Amazon restrictions are simply retarded, there is no better way to put it.
They will support the Netherlands and Sweden maybe in 5 years. I mean they don't even support all english speaking countries!!!
Who cares about dutch and swedish, together it's less than 30 million people. Just let us use the damn thing in english AMAZON!!!!!!

There are more features like traffic, uber. I do not live in a big city in Sweden but honestly I don't need to ask the weather I just look outside the window hehe 🙂. But I agree that Amazon should let us use it in English. You and me might not be their most common user. I guess that The Netherlands just like Sweden is very slow on the home automation concept. I might be wrong but in Sweden people that I show Alexa+Philips hue thinks they are in the future. I'm like: - "why live in the 90's when you can live in 2017". My grandma almost got herself a heartattack when I turned the lights on by voice and shutting of the tv the second after haha. Amazon are pioneers but will soon be passed by Google and Apple if they do not step ut. I like Amazon but the Echo have already been out in the U.S for several years and Sweden doesn't even know what it is.

To finish of this thread I will buy the Sonos One and keep build my Sonos network of speakers and keep amaze my friends.

There are more features like traffic, uber. I do not live in a big city in Sweden but honestly I don't need to ask the weather I just look outside the window hehe 🙂. But I agree that Amazon should let us use it in English. You and me might not be their most common user. I guess that The Netherlands just like Sweden is very slow on the home automation concept. I might be wrong but in Sweden people that I show Alexa+Philips hue thinks they are in the future. I'm like: - "why live in the 90's when you can live in 2017". My grandma almost got herself a heartattack when I turned the lights on by voice and shutting of the tv the second after haha. Amazon are pioneers but will soon be passed by Google and Apple if they do not step ut. I like Amazon but the Echo have already been out in the U.S for several years and Sweden doesn't even know what it is.

To finish of this thread I will buy the Sonos One and keep build my Sonos network of speakers and keep amaze my friends.

Ahaha dude. I dont need to ask the weather in NL because 1) it's always raining 2) weathercast over 3 hours is completely unpredictable

Well that is the weird part then, The Netherlands is very advanced in this regards.
Philips is a dutch company and lots of houses have their smart light bulbs!
Same goes for adoption of Nests and Electric cars.

There are two main reasons why amazon is not investing in the netherlands:
1) When amazon was still expanding the dutch were smart and came up with their own online stores like coolblue or bol.com
I'm originally from Italy and was shocked when asking around I realised that nobody here uses amazon. Then I checked amazon.nl and there is literally nothing there! Amazon lost the war in this country by not showing up in time. You can use amazon.de, but no prime or any of those things
2) Dutch is a language spoken by a ridicule minority of people in the world. Makes no sense for them to invest in it. English and german were solid first, next will likely be spanish and french, maybe Italian next? I don't see them trying to enter the chinese market. I guess Japan also is in the plans.

In any case you are right in saying that they will be eaten alive by the other big guys.
I would not worry about Google since they are the slowest on earth in selling their stuff world wide. But apple, oh boi.
Apple will sell their homepod in half the world in less than a year. The only defense google and amazon have is apple pricing.

In any case, glad to have found some sort of an answer to the original question. Enjoy guys! Looking forward to October 24

Anyone can shine a light on the Sonos One being sold in China?

I am an expat living in Shanghai with my family and see the Sonos One being announced in the official Sonos e-shop on Tmall. But no mention of the Alexa skill, if I guess the description correctly.

Would I be able to buy this device locally (vs. importing from e.g. USA) and use it with Alexa in English? My home network is routed over a VPN to access certain pages otherwise not available in China, if that matters (unlike google, amazon is not blocked in China).

I'm fine with not being able to get an Uber (Chinese DiDi pretty good anyway), but controlling my music and the lights would surely be nice...

Hi captain_alex. You are in the same boat as the rest of us.
Sonos does not want to clearly say if it will be possible or not, but we can be optimistic it will work.
Their position is understandable, since they are collaborating with amazon on this project and they can't publicly endorse workarounds that would make amazon unhappy.
Amazon stance is pretty incomprehensible, anyways.
If you route your entire home network to a supported country, have an amazon account supported in an alexa supported country (germany, usa, uk) and speak english/german YOU SHOULD BE GOOD.

SONOS has not confirmed or denied so far, and I expect it to stay this way. Maybe it's wise to wait for release so that other user can test it, if alexa is the main reason you want to purchase one.

I would imagine that a number of things factor into whether it will work or not.

1. Country the device is registered to - If you register your Sonos device as being in China, you won't have access to US services, music and likely voice as well.

2. IP address - If Sonos and/or Amazon see your IP address as being in China, they may prevent access to their services from those IP addresses. Shouldn't be a problem with a VPN, unless (like Netflix) they block VPN services as well.

3. Country your Amazon account is based in - If your Amazon account isn't based in the US, UK, or Germany, Amazon may not permit you to access Alexa services. I believe those are the only countries at the moment that support Alexa.

I would imagine that Sonos will only sell the Sonos One where services are available. If Google Assistant is available in more countries than Alexa, then maybe they'll open up sales of the speaker to those countries as well once Google Assistant becomes available through it.

That is such a shame. I am feeling that Sonos wasn’t just frank with users. This is a letdown that will be remembered. 😠

That is such a shame. I am feeling that Sonos wasn’t just frank with users. This is a letdown that will be remembered. :@
It's a little unfair to blame Sonos. I wouldn't blame Samsung if HBO wasn't available in my region. Sonos is enabling you the ability to access Amazon's Alexa through their device. It isn't really logical to think that would somehow change what restrictions Alexa has.

Sonos is calling the 'Sonos One' "future-ready" or other similar terms for the markets where Alexa isn't currently supported. It's difficult because the coverage of these "digital assistants" is so much more limited than we're used to seeing. Hopefully, with their rapid growth we'll also see rapid expansion to more places.

I just care about what’s promised. What we get is just one eu country (not counting brexiters).

Remember, the limitation is Amazon supporting Alexa in your country, not Sonos supporting their speakers in your country.