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Car Thing VS Sonos Five

Compare Car Thing VS Sonos Five and see what are their differences

Car Thing logo Car Thing

The smart player from Spotify that fills your car with music

Sonos Five logo Sonos Five

The high-fidelity speaker for superior sound.
  • Car Thing Landing page
    Landing page //
    2023-07-23
  • Sonos Five Landing page
    Landing page //
    2023-08-21

Car Thing videos

Spotify Car Thing: Unboxing + Setup + Walkthrough

More videos:

  • Review - Spotify Car Thing: I Got One!
  • Review - Spotify "Car Thing" Device Currently Free...

Sonos Five videos

Sonos Five Hands-On Review: What's New?

More videos:

  • Review - Sonos Five Review and Unboxing With Sound Test | Is It Worth It In 2021?
  • Review - SONOS Five or KEF LSX?

Category Popularity

0-100% (relative to Car Thing and Sonos Five)
Music
61 61%
39% 39
News
100 100%
0% 0
Home
0 0%
100% 100
Tech
100 100%
0% 0

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Social recommendations and mentions

Based on our record, Car Thing seems to be more popular. It has been mentiond 56 times since March 2021. We are tracking product recommendations and mentions on various public social media platforms and blogs. They can help you identify which product is more popular and what people think of it.

Car Thing mentions (56)

  • Spotify moves lyrics behind a paywall
    > why they gave that a green light After they came out with the Car Thing[1], I realized there may be a loose cannon over there at Spotify, and not in a fun, creative way, but in a "greenlights harebrained nonsense" way, like Netflix's "Qwikster" near-debacle. 1 https://carthing.spotify.com/. - Source: Hacker News / 2 days ago
  • Looking for an upgrade
    Spotify also has a device called a Car Thing. It's just a Spotify control panel. Source: 5 months ago
  • I found this small highly magnetic device thing in the back of my car, what is it???
    You'll never belive this but, well, it's a car thing. Source: 10 months ago
  • In 2018/2019, did anybody participate in the Car Thing program?
    1st Gen - https://www.businessinsider.com/spotify-car-thing-photos-details-user-manual-2020-1?amp https://www.androidpolice.com/2019/05/17/spotify-testing-voice-controlled-car-thing-but-you-may-never-see-one/?newsletter_popup=1 2nd Gen - https://carthing.spotify.com. Source: 11 months ago
  • Is there a Dashboard for navidrome, which controls playback for different devices.
    I fished out an old Android phone. For now it sits on my desk as a digital clock. I wonder is there a way to control playback for navidrome from here. (My navidrome is hosted on a different Ubuntu machine) Can I control the playback on my pc from the phone, and possibly display the artwork and current date time. Similar to Spotify carthing. Https://carthing.spotify.com/. Source: 11 months ago
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Sonos Five mentions (0)

We have not tracked any mentions of Sonos Five yet. Tracking of Sonos Five recommendations started around Mar 2021.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Car Thing and Sonos Five, you can also consider the following products

BOSEbuild Speaker Cube - Build-it-yourself Bluetooth speaker for curious kids

Sonos One - A self-contained, Alexa-connected speaker from Sonos

SOUNDBOKS - The loudest battery-powered speaker on the market.

Bose Portable Home Speaker - A new smart, portable speaker from Bose

Sonos In-Wall Speaker - A speaker made by Sonos and Sonance that sits in your wall

Apple HomePod - The new home entertainment system by Apple