Cameron Faulkner is an editor covering deals and gaming hardware. He joined in 2018, and after a two-year stint at Polygon, he rejoined The Verge in May 2025.

The smart speaker market is more or less dominated by major tech companies: Apple, Google, Sonos, and Amazon. But WiiM’s powerful 100W Sound smart speaker is an attractive alternative because it’s not locked down to play nicely with select music services.

3 and ethernet, giving you multiple ways to connect. Additionally, it taps into standards used by other speakers, including Chromecast, Spotify Connect, DLNA, Alexa Cast, and more (AirPlay 2 is off the table, though its Pro Music Streamer supports it).

In other words, it can be added to multi-room setups you may already have in the Google Home or Amazon Echo ecosystem. The black and white versions are rarely discounted, but they’re each 15 percent off at Amazon and directly through WiiM.

$254WiiM also makes the Sound Lite, which is also discounted by 15 percent. 65 at Amazon and WiiM.

8-inch touch display that can show off album art, and there’s no voice remote included — those are around $33. That said, you can wirelessly pair these speakers and other recent WiiM products to each other to build a surround sound setup.

Read more in our coverage. Other great Verge-approved dealsAll colors of Apple’s AirPods Max 2 over-ear, noise-canceling headphones are down to $429 at Best Buy as part of its 60-year anniversary sale.

Originally $549, this sale brings them down to their second-best price, only bested by Prime Day’s $399 deal. Amazon has fewer colors available at this price.

In our review, John Higgins praised their improved sound quality and noise cancellation effect, but wished certain things about it had changed. At their original price, he would have liked a proper carrying case included with purchase.

But, at least with this discount, you can get a nicer case with the cash you’ll save. Look, sometimes you just need a cheap TV, not an amazing one.

If that’s you, there might be a 58-inch Hisense 4K QLED Roku TV that’ll do. 99 at Best Buy.

It doesn’t seem particularly impressive, but it’s a feature-packed TV at a good price. Beyond having built-in Roku guts for streaming movies and TV shows, it supports Dolby Vision, HDR 10 and HLG, and its game mode supports variable refresh rate and auto low latency mode (though, it tops out at 60Hz refresh rate).