{"id":77266,"date":"2014-12-25T14:59:16","date_gmt":"2014-12-25T14:59:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=77266"},"modified":"2014-12-25T14:59:16","modified_gmt":"2014-12-25T14:59:16","slug":"lg-introduces-speakers-can-text","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=77266","title":{"rendered":"LG introduces speakers you can text"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LG has a novel idea for controlling your speakers: just send them a text message.<\/p>\n<p>The new Wi-Fi Music Flow speakers, which the company will unveil at CES 2015 in January, can accept commands from the messaging service Line. Besides the usual play and skip commands, you&#8217;ll be able to use some natural language: For instance, &#8220;play music for party&#8221; will tell the system to start a party playlist.<\/p>\n<p>Easy connectivity is also a big deal. Auto Music Play will detect a smartphone that comes within a foot of the speaker, and begin playing any music that&#8217;s playing. That way,\u00a0<span class=\"microcontent\" data-fragment=\"you-can-start-listening\" data-description=\"you can start listening on your commute, then immediately relay the playback to the speaker when you walk in the door\" data-micro=\"1\">listening on your commute, then immediately relay the playback to the speaker when you walk in the door<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>The Music Flow speakers connect via dual-band Wi-Fi, using both the 2.4GHz and 5GHz bands, giving them more robust bandwidth than your usual Bluetooth connection. A user can also network multiple speakers together for surround sound, with a soundbar up front and separate speakers in back.<\/p>\n<p>LG&#8217;s 2015 line consists of three soundbars, three standalone Wi-Fi speakers, and a new portable model, the NP8350. The accompanying Music Flow app is available on iOS and Android.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Source: Marshable.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LG has a novel idea for controlling your speakers: just send them a text message. The new Wi-Fi Music Flow speakers, which the company will unveil at CES 2015 in January, can accept commands from the messaging service Line. Besides the usual play and skip commands, you&#8217;ll be able to use some natural language: For [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":77268,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[18],"class_list":["post-77266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-dr-akwasi-osei"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=77266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77266\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/77268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}