iHome makes AirPlay range 5 with iW5

Last week i wrote about the latest addition to the iHome AirPlay family, the iHome iW4 bedside alarm clock dock. Today however iHome has announced a fifth member to their iHome iW AirPlay range in smaller iHome iW5.

Last year at CES iHome present 3 AirPlay models of which one has made it to the market as per today, whilst the iW2 and iW3 has been hovering around in the twilight zone, until now. The two models have resurfaced with some improvements at CES 2012. The iHome iW2 is a smaller version of the iHome iW1, and comes without the rechargeable battery. The iHome iW3 has been re-engineered to house a rechargeable battery as well.

The iHome iW1 is also getting an upgrade in terms of availability in a white and silver chrome version. The iW2, iW3 and iW4 are also available on the two different finishes.

iHome iW5 as mentioned is the latest addition, and is a smaller and simpler Airplay speaker with interchangeable front speaker covers, giving you the ability to add some color to it. I will be back with more information on the iHome iW5 when available.

Hopefully we will see all these new iHome Airplay speakers in the market real soon.

[source: iLounge]

iHome iW4 is the first Airplay enabled alarm dock

CES 2012 is just a few days away, but already we are starting to see companies releasing information about the new products they are displaying, including iHome with their latest AirPlay speaker dock; the iHome iW4 alarm dock with AirPlay technology.

Last year it was all about the iHome iW1 AirPlay speaker, with a couple of extra side distractions in form of iHome iW2 and iW3, which are yet to hit the market and there are doubts they ever will. This year the company is bringing their latest Airplay device in the iW4, which forms part of 3 new alarm speaker docks that will be shown off at CES.

Besides being AirPlay enabled, the iHome iW4 is a bedside unit that supports docking of all iOS devices, has dual alarm settings, FM radio, SRS TruBass sound enhancement, and packs about 20W of power, which should be plenty enough for the bedroom (or at least a normal size bedroom).

U.S retail price for the iHome iW4 is expected at around $270 and i'm waiting to hear back about UK price, but would expect it to be around £200, so on the pricey side for a bedroom alarm dock. I will be back with more details as soon as available, including expected retail release dates.

[source: iLounge]