JBL Link 20 Google Assistant smart speaker

JBL Link 20 Google Assistant smart speaker

By Andrew Willliams

The JBL Link 20 is a Google Home speaker. It gets you all the benefits of the original Google Home, but adds battery-powered portability, great water resistance and JBL’s own sound signature.

At £199/$199 it’s not cheap, though.

If you don’t care too much about portability, the Sonos One sounds significantly better. However, the JBL Link 20 is still a solid smart speaker with better sound than some, and is worth considering if you see it sold at a good price.

Design

The JBL Link 20 is a mid-size wireless speaker. It’s probably too big to just keep in your rucksack daily, “just in case” it’s needed, but is still easily small enough to carry around the house. It weighs 960g: not heavy.

This is a hybrid speaker of sorts. The Google Home assistant is its most obvious feature, something you’ll almost certainly use solely at home. But the JBL Link 20 also has the design, the Bluetooth streaming and integrated battery needed for a good all-terrain speaker.

Similar to the UE Megaboom, the JBL Link 20’s top and bottom are rubbery plastic, the sides a curved column topped with tough nylon weave.

This is more resilient than the …read more

Source:: techradar.com – PC and Mac

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