Now, Sonos, which for much of its existence had dogmatically avoided standalone speakers, has finally moved out of the house and gotten a job as a respectable Bluetooth speaker with the Sonos Move. In fairness, it has done this without compromising on its commitment to networked audio as the Move is a full-fledged Sonos speaker – albeit a larger one than the Sonos One owing in part to its integrated battery.  And while Sonos’s lateness to the Bluetooth audio segment makes its embrace of voice agents seem acrobatic in comparison, it has arrived with the thoughtfulness its customers will appreciate. Sonos has tested the Move for resilience against a hellish array of threats including heat, cold, water, dust, and gravitational acceleration. It has enabled it to transition smoothly between home and mobile via an inductive charging ring on which it sits. Sonos says it has even formulated special battery chemistry to better deal with the speaker being charged most of the time.

Sonos Move review: Hefty portable speaker brings big Sonos sound to the outdoors