Sorry Mike, No Sonos Controller For Android Until Next Month

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Friday, March 25th, 2011

Finally! Sonos To Release Android Controller App In March, exclaimed an understandably excited Michael Arrington back in February. Alas, bad news has just come in for my boss and many other Android handset owning Sonos users.

According to the company, testing of the Sonos Controller for Android is taking a bit longer than they’d anticipated, which means they will not make that March deadline after all.

The latest addition to its free controller line-up won’t arrive until April. The horror.

“But when it does, it is going to rock”, said Andrew Schulert, VP of Quality at Sonos.

Company: Sonos
Website: sonos.com
Launch Date: June 30, 2002
Funding: $200M

Sonos is a developer of wireless multi-room music systems for the home. The Sonos Multi-Room Music System is the first, wireless multi-room music system that lets you play all the music you want all over your house — and control it all from the palm of your hand. Sonos liberates the music stored on a computer so it can be enjoyed all over the house. In addition, by partnering with audio services like Audible.com, Last.fm, Napster, Pandora, RadioTime, Rhapsody, SIRIUS...

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