Although the Facebook Portal range started life as devices for calling over Facebook Messenger or WhatsApp, the pandemic has seen…
Reviews
Welcome to The Ambient’s reviews hub page, your ultimate source for smart home product reviews. In our Reviews category, you’ll find comprehensive reviews on a wide range of smart home devices, all of which have been meticulously tested by our team of experts. From voice assistants that control your environment with a simple command, through innovative security devices designed to enhance home safety, to smart lights, smart power, smart cleaning and more, we thoroughly test each product, ensuring you make informed decisions based on performance and reliability.
While the idea of a portable projector that you can throw in a bag and use anywhere is a powerful…
Adding a proper mopping feature and self-emptying base station usually whacks up the price of a robot vacuum cleaner, but…
While a lot of robot vacuum cleaners have become smarter and more expensive, the Shark ION Robot Vacuum Cleaner is…
Most of the Ezviz cameras that I’ve reviewed have been wired, outdoor models. They’ve all shared low prices and quality…
Airthings has a depressing statistic: we spend 90% of our time indoors. There’s a good chance that the air you’re…
Mowing the lawn can be therapeutic… every once in a while at least. In late spring and summer though, when…
A compact, versatile security camera that can go indoors or out, the Abode Cam 2 is a wired surveillance cam…
Ezviz has built a good name for itself, delivering high-end features at lower prices. The Ezviz CTQ3N, on review here,…
The new Nest Doorbell (Battery) from Google is a worthy successor to the excellent Nest Hello, arguably the best smart…
Most smart lighting does roughly the same thing, giving a wider choice of color and temperature options than traditional dumb…
Rather than just delivering another me-too product, the Govee Lyra RGBIC-WW Floor Lamp is a slightly different bit of smart…
In its continuing quest to dumb down Nest, Google’s newest Google Nest Cam is an inferior upgrade to the Nest…
NEW MODEL: Amazon Echo Show 5 (3rd-gen) review The cheapest Echo with a screen, the Echo Show 5 is designed…
Ikea’s line-up of Sonos speakers has always been as much about fitting in with your decor as it has sound…
Flying cameras aside, we haven’t seen a lot of innovation from Ring recently. But with every new version of its…
Control4 has a new option for your front door. The Control4 Chime was announced last year and has been stuck…
While Amazon, Apple and Google all have their own streaming boxes, each one ties you into that company. If you…
Samsung’s SmartThings was at the centre of a massive rumor that the entire thing was about to be shut down.…
New version: Amazon Echo Show 8 3rd-gen review With the Echo Show 10 being more novelty than necessity (that rotating…