Hands-on: The Sonos One is a smarter Play:1 with Alexa support

Enlarge / The Sonos One looks a whole lot like the Sonos Play:1. There's an all-black model, too. (credit: Jeff Dunn)

Sonos on Wednesday announced the Sonos One, its latest wireless home speaker.

As the company suggested earlier this year, the One is the first Sonos speaker to natively support voice assistants. The device will work with Amazon's Alexa platform to start; the company says an update to enable Google Assistant support will arrive sometime next year, and Sonos is open to working with more digital helpers in the future. The device costs $199/199/a229 and will ship on October 24, with pre-orders now live on Sonos' website.

The company said those who already have a Sonos speaker will gain Alexa support through an update rolling out on Wednesday as well, though you'll have to own an existing Alexa-enabled device such as Amazon's Echo Dot and use Alexa's Sonos "skill" to make that work. The Sonos One's advantage is that it has everything baked in from the get-go.

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