Sonos Roam incoming!!

They need to fix this bug. Speaking for myself only, if the battery drain is present with this speaker I won’t be buying it. 

I am not sure why someone would have these as rear surround home theater speakers when you can get what will be seemingly better sounding speakers in the One and One SL for just $10 more. This product has a niche of product uses and market that it is going after. This is going after UE and JBL directly with the bonus of incorporating into the Sonos ecosystem. UE has like 6 products. This product will sufficiently target in some way all 6. I think it’s a great fit. My use, replacing my bathrooms’ Amazon Alexa Echo puck speakers with this. I tried a Play 1 and it couldn’t stand up to the humidity. As a bonus, when we go to the park, out walking, or to other events and activities, these will be perfect especially if you can pair them up. I don’t know why the power/battery management issue is considered a bug; isn’t that the case with just about all similar speakers, they bleed out over time even if they don’t get used.

I suppose it depends on what you mean by ‘over time'?

Turn your phone or tablet off fully and a week later it may have lost a percent or two. Sonos Move will be flat long before that.  Sonos now no longer respond to anyone raising the issue.  It's still being investigated.  A year or so later..

I’d agree, it would be silly for Sonos to treat these any differently than the Move. If they can be easily removed from the Home theater context, either singly, or the pair, I can only imagine the support nightmare that would ensue, when household member X grabs one to use elsewhere, without the knowledge of the rest of the household. I can only see ‘permanently bonded’ speakers allowed to be surrounds. 

I guess I never knew anything about this regarding the Move. Is that why they started offering battery replacements?

Sonos understands how important brand loyalty is. This has been the key to their success. I think the Roam will be nothing more than a small, simple-to-use, and reasonably-priced portable Bluetooth speaker designed to introduce a whole new generation of younger consumers to their brand.

I agree. I dont think that Sonos would put a subpar product. I think that we should just wait on Tuesday, March 9 and see what features, details, and specifications are when they unveil the product.

Some of us enjoy speculating, as foolish as it may be.  

Because of it’s size and and power requirements.  In the same way that some people don’t have a room in which they could setup wired rear speakers, others can't easily connect rear speakers to power.  It would be rather convenient to be able to keep 2 roams charged elsewhere, then easily place them in position when you want to watch TV with surround.  Even if you did want to keep the Roam plugged in during TV watching, a low voltage USB cable is easier to deal with that 110/220V wire. That’s not even factoring in that people don’t have unlimited budgets, and getting portable speakers and surround speakers for the half the price is going to be appealing.

Again, I see the appeal, I just don’t think Sonos is going to offer this feature for the reasons others already stated.

The leaked information states they cannot be paired in bluetooth mode, which is also the case for the Move.  That doesn’t completely rule it out, but highly unlikely.  If you have an android phone, you can connect to 2 speakers in mono.

I’m surprised you can’t per order these. I definitely want one so I guess I’ll wait

They won’t officially announce it until Tuesday. Probably will be able to preorder after that.