While no further details are known about the speaker's functionality, it could potentially extend Facebook's feed of photos and videos, plus its dominant messaging platform, into the bedroom, living room or kitchen.
It's a newer smart speaker with multiroom functionality, which means you'll be able to group it with other speakers, or play and control them independently.
Amazon and Google's aggressive efforts to add third-party apps to their smart speaker's core functionality demonstrates that AI is the primary selling point in the smart speaker space.
Amazon's Tap set itself apart from its Echo brethren with better sound – positioned more as a Bluetooth speaker with Alexa functionality than an Alexa device that happened to have a speaker built in when it was introduced last year.
The fruits of that effort started to bear out at IFA in September, when companies like Sony and JBL announced premium speakers sporting the functionality — and soon after Bose announced that it was bringing Assistant to its latest headphones, the QC35 II.
That means no having to connect an Echo smart speaker, it offers Echo functionality right out of the box.
Up top you'll find a little spot to rest your media player of choice, along with your standard music controls for pause/play, volume, etc. All-in-all it looks like a sweet little speaker dock, and AirPlay functionality makes it all the more attractive.
Other features include integrated 5-watt surround sound speakers, picture-in-picture functionality, and an integrated TV tuner.
One of the most important areas of potential for smart speakers is fostering tighter functionality with users' smartphones.
