Wyze opened pre-orders for its new Wyze lamp color. $ 35 (plus $ 8 for shipping) gives you four 1,100-lumen color smart bulbs, equipped with RGB and compatible. That equates to $ 10.74 each, making them one of the cheapest intelligent built-in assistant lamps you can buy, and should be shipped next month.
Although we haven’t had any time with the lamps, Wyze’s specifications make these new lamps look like a good deal. They are probably brighter than the Yeelight M2 that we reviewed recently and substantially cheaper, although they don’t appear to benefit from Google’s new uniform setup process (we contacted Wyze to confirm this). Even so, it is difficult to complain about the price.
In addition to the usual 16 million RGB color support, Wyze announces an extended Kelvin range for redder / warmer shades of white and a CRI rating of 90+ – out of a maximum of 100, this score is generally considered “excellent” and means the quality of white light produced through its constituent spectrum components is best for illuminating other objects in a way with accurate colors. In short, things like art, paint colors and furniture in your home will not look as faded compared to cheap LEDs or fluorescent lamps. They use Wi-Fi (2.4 GHz) or Bluetooth for their connection, so you don’t need a hub.
Unlike the recent Wyze Cam v3, you do not need to have a subscription to purchase these lamps, although you do have to pay a little expensive freight from the company. Still, even with that added cost, they cost just under $ 11 each, which makes them as cheap as Amazon’s cheapest smart home specials, and without that app-you-never-heard-out factor -speak.
Wyze’s non-colored smart lamps are among our favorite smart home lights, easily winning our Most Wanted Editor’s Choice award (although Wyze has incorrectly mapped some of the Assistant’s warm and cold tone labels, which still frustrates me). I hope these new colored lamps will be popular with the intelligent home audience integrated with the Assistant.