Sonos Introduces New Remote Control, Bundle 220
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Today, Sonos, manufacturer of expensive-but-excellent wireless home audio systems, announced the Sonos Controller 200–the first Sonos remote control that fits in one hand and uses a touch screen. In a brief hands-on with the new controller last week, I got a look at the new easy-to-use interface. I’ll reserve most comments for our official review at PCMag.com, which should post within the next week or so, but my first impression: excellent.
It’s been a while since Sonos has made any radical improvements to its core system, the Bundle 120. Its Zone Players–the receivers that either connect to speakers or have them built in–have slowly improved, but the biggest change was last year’s iPhone and iPod touch app. What was so clever about the app? It made the iPhone into a remote with a touchscreen. It worked seamlessly, and all the sudden, the well-designed-but-aging Sonos CR100 remote control seemed more cumbersome than useful.
Enter the Sonos Controller 200.
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