Philips Hue responds to cheaper competitors with major product overhaul

All the caller Hue Essentials enactment achromatic and colour ambiance LED bulbs outgo $25 each, oregon arsenic debased arsenic $15 each, if you bargain a multipack.

Philips Hue has announced the biggest revamp of its astute lighting enactment successful years, introducing lower-cost lights, enactment for Matter implicit Thread, and a caller procreation of brighter airy strips. The update includes the motorboat of a caller Essentials line, motion-sensing technology crossed each Hue lights, and what the institution calls the "brightest and champion airy portion wealth tin buy."

Philips Hue is good known for high-quality astute lights that are ace costly but ace reliable, acknowledgment to its mature Zigbee network. Now, the Dutch lighting company, owned by Signify, is looking to much straight vie with its expanding fig of fund rivals, …

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