Our Overall Score:
9.1/10
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Latest price search at John Lewis & Partners: £269
The most important part of buying online can be to read reviews and that’s why you’re here. We’ve scanned the internet to find as many Bose Portable Home Smart Speaker with Voice Recognition and Control reviews as we can, regardless if they’re good or bad as we want to give you the most truthful and realistic overview of just how good Bose Portable Home Smart Speaker with Voice Recognition and Control is. In finding reviews, we discovered that the best and most informative reviews were from customers over at John Lewis & Partners, to read these review just tap on the View Reviews button now.
When it comes to buying products online, whether that’s a TV, clothes, Audio Equipment or even a something like a sofa, there are a general set of guidance or advice that you can follow to help you get the best product for your needs and also the best for your budget. As you can imagine there are tons of different options in the Audio Equipment category and even loads of options of products from Bose so it’s important to take the time to find the right one for you. The four areas that we want to delve in to a little more are the quality, the price of the product, what the reviews are saying about it and then finally we’ll look at an overall score which takes into account the other factors.
Quality of Bose Portable Home Smart Speaker with Voice Recognition and Control
Bose Portable Home Smart Speaker with Voice Recognition and Control scored an incredible 8.4/10 for quality.
As you’d expect with a lot of products, quality is a very important factor for choosing products in the “Audio Equipment” category. But it’s even more important to consider and get a feel for quality when you’re buying online because you aren’t given the benefit of being able to see and try the item for yourself.
This is of course why we can’t stress enough the importance of reading lots of reviews, as it will really help you to get a good feel for how good the quality is. A top tip when reading the reviews is to use the search function on your browser and search for the word “quality” in the reviews that way you can skip straight to customers that have mentioned about the quality of Bose Portable Home Smart Speaker with Voice Recognition and Control.
Once you’ve had a good look over the reviews you’ll have a pretty good indication of how good the quality of Bose Portable Home Smart Speaker with Voice Recognition and Control is, but we also have the following factors that you should consider to get an idea of the quality of the product you’re looking at.
- Price: It probably sounds obvious, but there are links to the price you pay and the quality of a product. Try and set your expectations for the quality based on your budget. You wouldn’t expect a Rolls-Royce for the price of a Fiesta so bear this in mind when shopping.
- Specification: It’s a really good idea to look over the product description and specification section of the website, for Bose Portable Home Smart Speaker with Voice Recognition and Control you can read the full details on the John Lewis & Partners website where it will give you all the detail you need. It’s useful as you’ll probably already have a good idea of the sort of specs that make good Audio Equipment. Also compare these specs to other similar products that are in the same price bracket.
- Brand: Bose are obviously a strong and recognisable brand for making great Audio Equipment, so you’d expect Bose Portable Home Smart Speaker with Voice Recognition and Control to deliver to these expectations. But always consider the brand when you’re thinking about the quality of the product you’re going to buy, and where quality is an important factor to you, look only at those well known brands (of course only if your budget allows).
- Your experience with Audio Equipment: You’ll no doubt have some history with buying Audio Equipment, and you may have even bought products from the same brand, Bose, use this information to your advantage. You’ll probably have a good idea of how good the quality of the product was and any faults or floors you remember from it.
Price analysis of Bose Portable Home Smart Speaker with Voice Recognition and Control
Bose Portable Home Smart Speaker with Voice Recognition and Control scored highly with 9.1/10 for price in our review.
Price, a hugely important part of any purchase. Price becomes even more of a consideration when we’re shopping online because it’s so amazingly simple to compare the price of several retailers in literally just a few clicks. In fact you don’t even need to do that, we’ve run price comparisons for you in order to find the best price. The lowest price we’ve managed to find Bose Portable Home Smart Speaker with Voice Recognition and Control for is just £269 over at John Lewis & Partners.
There’s a lot of geeky analysis to be done on price, but what we find most effective and informative is to look at 3 different figures when comparing products and that is the average price, the most expensive and the cheapest. This gives you a really good feel for what the normal product would cost but also giving you an idea of just how cheap you can find it or the opposite, just how expensive some are. It’s also useful to look at the average of the products that fit in the same category as well as products from the same brand. So we’re going to look in more detail now at the price of Bose Portable Home Smart Speaker with Voice Recognition and Control.
Prices of products in the Audio Equipment category
We thought it would be useful to spend a bit of time exploring the price of Bose Portable Home Smart Speaker with Voice Recognition and Control and seeing how it compares to other similar products. And also seeing how much variance there are in prices of products in the Audio Equipment category. To do this we looked at all of the products over at John Lewis & Partners, there were a total of 74 products in the Audio Equipment, and of these 74 products the average price was £436.51, making Bose Portable Home Smart Speaker with Voice Recognition and Control below average at £269. We also looked at the cheapest option in the same category which was just £14.99 whilst the most expensive was £3499.99. So you can see there’s a huge variance in the price of products in this category, as an indication there were 178 products less expensive and 61 more expensive than Bose Portable Home Smart Speaker with Voice Recognition and Control in this category. So we thought it would be worth going into a bit more detail and looking at the prices of products from Bose.
Prices of products from Bose
So the average price of the 29 products available from Bose was £213.36, making £269 above average against the other products from the same brand. With the most expensive product from them coming in at £799.00 and the cheapest at £19.95. We thought a good next step would be to look more specifically at products from Bose that fit in to the category of Audio Equipment rather than looking at all their products.
Of the 12 products from Bose in the Audio Equipment category, the average price is £175.57 making Bose Portable Home Smart Speaker with Voice Recognition and Control above average at £269. Again we looked at how much price can vary and found that the cheapest product to fit this criteria was £24.95 and the most expensive was £299.00 so there are again a lot of varying prices with the products. In fact to be precise we found 1 products from Bose that were more expensive and 10 that were cheaper.
Reviews of Bose Portable Home Smart Speaker with Voice Recognition and Control
Bose Portable Home Smart Speaker with Voice Recognition and Control scores 9.9/10 for customer reviews.
Reviews are really the most valuable part of your online shopping, they’re giving you the next best thing to being able to actually try the product for yourself. You’re not relying on a manufacturers sales description telling you just how good their product is, you’re getting genuine feedback from actual users of the product. We can’t stress enough how important it is that you spend some time reading the reviews of Bose Portable Home Smart Speaker with Voice Recognition and Control over at John Lewis & Partners, click on the “view reviews” button now to read them.
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Overall score
Bose Portable Home Smart Speaker with Voice Recognition and Control got an amazing overall score of 9.1/10 in our review.
This figure takes into account the various criteria that we’ve covered above, the price, the quality and the customer reviews, in order to give you an overall score. This overall score of 9.1/10 then gives you a really easy figure to use for comparison purposes if you’re then going on to read any of our other reviews of Audio Equipment.
As you’ve already seen in the pricing section there are absolutely loads of different options from Bose so take your time to read the reviews, do your homework on setting a budget and seeing how the price of Bose Portable Home Smart Speaker with Voice Recognition and Control stacks up against your budget and make sure you also set yourself a list of “must-haves” so you know that this product ticks all your boxes.
More info: Bose Portable Home Smart Speaker with Voice Recognition and Control
- Brand: Bose
- Model Number: Portable Home Speaker
- EAN: 17817801829
- Description: The Bose Portable Home Speaker delivers 360¬∞ lifelike sound in a compact and durable speaker that you can take anywhere. When connected to Wi-Fi, built-in voice control from the Google Assistant and Alexa puts songs, playlists and more at the tip of your tongue. Bluetooth, a long-lasting rechargeable battery and water-resistant durability ensure it’s reliable outdoors too. And you have the freedom to control the music your way; with your voice, with a tap on the top controls, or with the Bose Music app (available on iOS and Android). Bose sound in all directions The Portable Home Speaker is crafted to emit audio in all directions. Enjoy the sound quality that Bose are renowned for in omni-directional style, creating a more natural, lifelike and realistic sound. Voice control with the Google Assistant and Alexa When connected to Wi-Fi, voice control from the Google Assistant and Alexa puts millions of songs, internet radio, playlists, and more, at your voice command. And when the music’s playing loud, it will still hear you. Just under the top is a custom-designed microphone array for superior voice pickup. But control isn’t just limited to the voice; tap the top controls to play, pause, or skip tracks, or manage it all from the Bose Music app. And you can tap the Mic-Disable button to completely disengage the microphones with one touch. A world of choice It offers a huge choice of listening options. When connected to Wi-Fi, access integrated streaming music services like Spotify and Amazon Music at the touch of a button (some services may require subscription). And with the Google Assistant and Alexa, music is just the beginning. You have access to things like weather reports and news headlines, so if you want to hear something, you can just ask.* Future software updates will add new features, and multiple users can personalise their experience and control their content with the easy-to-use Bose Music app. Brilliant Bluetooth The Portable Home speaker is a take-anywhere speaker, so when you’re out of Wi-Fi range, connect over Bluetooth to play anything from your phone or tablet. Back on the home network, it’s also designed to easily connect with a range of compatible Bose smart speakers and soundbars so you can enjoy more music in more rooms. Apple Airplay 2 compatible With Apple Airplay 2 you can control this speaker from any iOS device like your iPhone, iPad or Mac. Control it either from the Apple Home app, or directly from compatible streaming services like Apple Music, Spotify, and others. Compact, water-resistant design At just over 19cm high, the seamless design of the Bose Portable Home Speaker is space-saving, while still providing powerful bass. It’s built for confident use outdoors too. With an IPX4 rating, it’ll easily withstand splashes and sprays, so it’s fine next to the sink, by the pool, or if you get caught in a shower in the park. Rechargeable power Its internal battery lasts for up to 12 hours off a single charge. Recharge by plugging into the wall with the included cable, or by using the optional charging cradle accessory (sold separately). Of course, you can keep the music playing as it’s powering back up. *Voice assistant commands and controls may vary by country’s functional capabilities. A Smart Speaker is a platform that can run 3rd party Apps. 3rd party content providers may remove Apps from the Smart platform or stop supporting them at any time, and we cannot guarantee an App’s availability. When new Smart products are launched, there may also be a delay before certain Apps become available. Availability of Apps is not included within the terms of the manufacturer’s warranty, or the John Lewis 2-year Guarantee for audio visual products, or the 5-year Guarantee for TVs.
- Product ID: 25158520251
- Category: Electricals > Hi-Fi, Audio & Speakers > Speakers
- Colour: Black
