Meet Sonos Roam, the ultra-portable smart speaker

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We’re happy to introduce you all to Sonos Roam, the ultra-portable smart speaker built to deliver great sound at home and on any adventure. Fully connected to your Sonos system on WiFi at home and automatically switching to Bluetooth when you’re on the go, Roam’s powerful, adaptable sound defies expectations for a speaker of its size. Effortless set-up and control and new smart features make it easier than ever to enjoy music and more from anywhere. Weighing less than a pound (450g), Roam’s elegant yet durable design is perfect for your home, the backyard, and wherever you go.

Get to know Sonos Roam

A simultaneous connection to both WiFi and Bluetooth makes streaming wherever you are seamless. When you’re listening at home Roam connects to your system and streams on WiFi, and when you leave it intuitively switches to Bluetooth and automatically re-pairs with your mobile device.

With an all-new feature called Sound Swap, you can hold the play/pause button on the speaker to switch the music to the nearest speaker on your system, making it easy to move music from room-to-room.

Sonos Roam (left) and Sonos Move (right)

Seamless connectivity also unlocks Bluetooth streaming for your entire system, with the Sonos app allowing you to group any of your Sonos speakers to Roam when streaming with Bluetooth. Roam works with more than 100 streaming services, including Sonos Radio, and is easily controlled with the Sonos app, your voice with Amazon Alexa or Google Assistant, Apple AirPlay 2, or directly from your favorite music service app.

Roam was created to deliver an incredible sound experience no matter where you are. Like all Sonos products, Roam was tuned by industry leaders across music and film to ensure the speaker reproduces content exactly how the creator intended. A carefully designed acoustic architecture delivers rich, detailed sound with the clarity, depth, and fullness you’d expect from a larger speaker.

Automatic Trueplay is now available when streaming via Bluetooth as well as Wi-Fi, and means Roam is always tuned for the best listening experience in any environment.

Available in shadow black or lunar white, Roam’s tactile triangular shape and soft profile is comfortable to pick up and looks great inside the home. Combining elegance and durability, Roam is dust proof and fully waterproof with a rigorously tested IP67 rating, and features silicone end caps and physical buttons to protect against drops or bumps.

Roam is ready for any adventure with up to 10 hours of continuous playback on a single charge and up to 10 days of battery life when not in use.

To recharge, Roam connects to a custom magnetic wireless charger from Sonos sold separately, any Qi wireless charger, or with the USB-C cable included in the box.

Roam’s compact size will fit into any bag or the smallest corner of your living space. Listeners can place Roam vertically for a smaller footprint or horizontally to provide added stability on uneven surfaces outdoors. Even the packaging leaves a light footprint, with a structure that is made of 100% sustainably-sourced paper, minimizes the use of inks, and includes no single-use plastics.

Roam is available starting April 20 for $169, €179, £159, NOK1799, SEK1999, DKK1349. You can pre-order today on sonos.com.

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Gordon Carson

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I am looking at Roam. It says it hooks up automatically to Bluetooh or WiFi. If we have two phones with buletooth enabled, can I control which one in connects to? If so how. I am thinking of a situation where we are in the car with both phones on and would like to play the music on the Roam.

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melvimbe

I am looking at Roam. It says it hooks up automatically to Bluetooh or WiFi. If we have two phones with buletooth enabled, can I control which one in connects to? If so how. I am thinking of a situation where we are in the car with both phones on and would like to play the music on the Roam.

Gordon

Using the phone you want to connect to, go to the list of available bluetooth devices you can connect to, then connect it. I don’t think the auto bluetooth pairing will work for a speaker that is already paired to a different device.

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Arefkay

Enthusiast I

I suspect if you pair multiple devices it will pair up with whichever device it ‘sees’ first. When I got my first Roam I tried Bluetooth pairing with my phone and then my laptop. It seemed to want to automatically connect to whichever it saw first. I had to temporarily disable Bluetooth on one device to get it to switch. Then I deleted the pairing on my phone. I forgot I had left a pairing on the laptop. When I got my second Roam a couple of days later I set the pair up as stereo on Wi-Fi. The next two days I had trouble with the stereo pair going back to individual speakers each morning. Turns out I had left the laptop BT pairing enabled. When I turned the laptop on each morning the one speaker went back to Bluetooth mode. Was very confusing until I realized what had happened.

James L.

Retired Community Staff

I suspect if you pair multiple devices it will pair up with whichever device it ‘sees’ first. When I got my first Roam I tried Bluetooth pairing with my phone and then my laptop. It seemed to want to automatically connect to whichever it saw first. I had to temporarily disable Bluetooth on one device to get it to switch. Then I deleted the pairing on my phone. I forgot I had left a pairing on the laptop. When I got my second Roam a couple of days later I set the pair up as stereo on Wi-Fi. The next two days I had trouble with the stereo pair going back to individual speakers each morning. Turns out I had left the laptop BT pairing enabled. When I turned the laptop on each morning the one speaker went back to Bluetooth mode. Was very confusing until I realized what had happened.

You’re on the right track with that assumption. Roam will actually automatically pair back to the device that it was connected to most recently. So if you have 2 devices in range of Roam when switching to Bluetooth it will establish the connection with the device it was last connected to. If that device isn’t in range, it will check through its connection table (list of up to 8 devices it’s connected to previously) to see if any are in range.

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melvimbe

Is the pull much stronger with the Sonos charger? I wished I had paid more attention in physics...wondering if a thicker/bigger piece of metal than the fridge will hold it better. Wondering if that’s why the charger works better, or perhaps the charger has a magnet with the opposite charge.

Yeah, the pull is much stronger with the Sonos charger, I can get mine to snap together by moving them around ¾” apart (horizontally) which leads me to believe that the charger also has magnets inside (still waiting on an answer for that from the product team).

Not because I don’t trust you, but I had to test the refrigerator myself. I didn’t really notice anything. Tried the refrigerator magnets as well...nothing. It didn’t really stick to metal either, so I would guess there is a corresponding magnet in the charger to make it work. And I suspect that there is maybe a magnet on each of the 3 sides, so that it aligns properly. And for that reason, I don’t think other chargers will work right, even if the polarity matches up.

Danny

melvimbe

You’re on the right track with that assumption. Roam will actually automatically pair back to the device that it was connected to most recently. So if you have 2 devices in range of Roam when switching to Bluetooth it will establish the connection with the device it was last connected to. If that device isn’t in range, it will check through its connection table (list of up to 8 devices it’s connected to previously) to see if any are in range.

For some reason, I always thought that the sending device determines the automatic connection. I am looking at my phone settings, and although I can manually select which devices to connect to, I don’t see any auto connection option. This is unlike WiFi, where I can set the phone to automatically connect when a WiFi network is present.

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Arefkay

Enthusiast I

You’re on the right track with that assumption. Roam will actually automatically pair back to the device that it was connected to most recently. So if you have 2 devices in range of Roam when switching to Bluetooth it will establish the connection with the device it was last connected to. If that device isn’t in range, it will check through its connection table (list of up to 8 devices it’s connected to previously) to see if any are in range.

For some reason, I always thought that the sending device determines the automatic connection. I am looking at my phone settings, and although I can manually select which devices to connect to, I don’t see any auto connection option. This is unlike WiFi, where I can set the phone to automatically connect when a WiFi network is present.

I have blue tooth headphones and speakers. When I turn them on they automatically connect with whatever I had then paired with before (phone or laptop). The bluetooth in my car connects with whatever phone it paired with last time (if it is there) or whatever paired phone it sees. So if my wife used my car last time and we both are in the car when I start it I think it will connect to her phone. My laptop will connect with the bluetooth mouse as soon as I turn it, or the mouse on.

Wifi is a different kind of animal. With wifi you are joining an existing network with any number of devices using the wifi at the same time. Bluetooth devices are typically a one-to-one connection. My Bose headphones seem to connect to both my phone and my laptop. But I am only able to listen to one or the other at any given time.

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Phoebebus

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Ever since we connected the roam to our system we have had endless problems with the app on various devices including i phone and i pad becoming un responsive. Constantly having to reset the router. Never had this issue before.

When we open the app the browse section just flashes numerous times and nothing happens

Anybody able to help with this issue

James L.

Retired Community Staff

Hi @Phoebebus,

What kind of router do you have? Is it a BT Smart Hub 2? If so, have a read of this article and let me know how you get on.

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