I received my Sonos Roam back in April since I preordered it and it's a very nice speaker, sounds great as all Sonos product does, but I am still trying to figure out what it is about the battery. If I have it fully charged and then turn it off and I check it say 2 or 3 days later the battery seems to be almost completely empty even if I never turned it on once. Not sure if mine has some sort of defect, I just noticed this and I don't think if it is turned off it should use hardly any battery. I have my Logitech Wonderboom 2 which lasts forever and I have a relatively inexpensive Sony stereo headset which when it says battery 70% still says the same if I turn it on 3 weeks later. I will call Sonos next week to discuss this, but it's definitely a very nice sounding and small speaker and you can charge it via USB-C or by placing it vertically onto any wireless charging pad. The speaker makes a sound when you turn it off, but it does not make one when you turn it on and I was also going to sugges tto Sonos to implement some sort of startup sound since the on/off button is a push button and there really is no way to tell if you pushed it long enough, to turn it on you have to push it and hold it for just a second or two whereas pressing it once briefly does turn the speaker off. The Roam has 4 buttons which are tactile, they are on the oposited end of the side where you set it on the charging pad. The speaker itself is a triangle shape so if you look at the triangle end where the buttons are, the volume up button is at the top corner of the triangle, the volume down button is in the bottom right corner and the Play/Pause button is in the middle in between volume up and down. In the botton left corner is a fourth button and it's to turn the microphone on and off and usually if I want to make sure the speaker is on I push that button since it makes a sound when you push it, but a startup sound I think would be useful. I have mine setup to work with Alexa although you can also enable Google Assistant on it, but you currently still can't have both assistants active simultaneously. I am sure Sonos would love to do this, but it is not yet possible. The on/off button is on the bottom back edge next to the USB-C charging port. The roam is water-resistant, but it's not waterproof as in where yu could throw it into the pool or the lake like the Logitech Wonderboom and it's definitely heavy compared to it's size and it would probably sink like a rock where the barrel-shaped Wonderboom 2 is designed to float. When I ordered the Roam I thought I could now maybe sell my Wonderboom 2 because I would not need two small speakers, but when I go to my woodworking shop or outside I still find myself taking the Wonderboom 2 a lot simply because it's so rugged, has such a long range and it has a sort of rubber loop to which I attached a carabiner and I can clip it to a belt loop, my backpack or whatever else is handy. The Sonos Roam has no such attachment point which I think is a mistake and at least if they didn't want to design it with something like that, they could have integrated a standard threaded tripod mount into it's base, but it has nothing like that, it's completely smooth apart from an embossed Sonos logo on the front. The triangle shape with it's rounded edges is nice, but since it's meant to be a truly portable, go-to anywhere speaker it would have been nice if you could have hung or mounted it somewhere.
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