Sony’s LF-S50G smart home speaker has recently received a price cut down to $50. The speaker started at $200, putting it at a comparable price point to Apple’s HomePod. With its new, reduced price, though, it’s a much sweeter deal than Apple’s expensive, ecosystem locked HomePod.
Sony LF-S50G Speaker Now $50
The Speaker
The LF-S50G itself has stellar sound quality. Music, podcasts and audiobooks all sound great coming from this small, sleek speaker. Included in the device is Google Assistant, ready to help organize all of your smart home needs. In short, for only $20 than the Google Home Mini or Amazon Echo Dot, you get a speaker that’s far more powerful in sound quality.
Google Assistant
Google Assistant is helpful in a number of ways. You can ask the system basic questions, like for weather and traffic reports. If you have other smart home devices, like smart lights, locks, thermostats or the like, you can control them from your Google Assistant-enabled speaker. Most commonly, you can call out for the speaker to play your music for you.
The Right Price
If you’ve been looking to break into the smart home ecosystem, this is the speaker to do it with. The smart speaker is a small $20 more than the best budget smart speakers, and it packs way bigger, better sound into its small frame. It helps that this is all wrapped into a sleek, attractive package.
The black finish and elegant styling makes this just as appealing as a piece of eye candy as it does a piece of tech. Did we mention this speaker sports 360-degree sound, like the HomePod? Nothing makes a room feel more alive when you have guests over than huge, room-filling sound coming from all directions.
In short, this is a hard deal to pass up. For the low price of $50, it’s hard to beat the value of this smart speaker. The huge sound, small size and low price add up to make this the best deal on the smart speaker market right now.