A whole world in my bucket
Last issue we conducted a frighteningly huge survey of wireless multiroom systems, including Bose. And while we had reviewed all of the company’s original SoundTouch products, we hadn’t heard the more recent ‘Smart Home’ family, which combines wireless multiroom abilities with built-in Alexa voice control. Keen to plug the gap in our knowledge, we requested a review unit to assess, and here it is, the attractively buckety Bose Portable Smart Speaker.
Equipment
The Portable Smart Speaker delivers something that the SoundTouch family never did — a genuinely portable unit. While the SoundTouch 10 is an easily compact size to shift around the home, and has Bluetooth to play music if you step outside the home network, it is still tethered by a mains cable wherever you go. Not so the Portable, which has an internal power pack which you can keep permanently charged either by sitting it on
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