Philips Hue Go 2 White & Color Ambiance Sensible Transportable Mild Overview

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The unique Philips Hue Go was launched again in 2015, and the Go 2 was launched round three years in the past, so this overview is a bit late to the sport.

Nevertheless, it’s a cool little good gentle that compliments the Philips Hue ecosystem effectively, and I believed it was price doing a fast overview of.

Specification

• Bluetooth or Hue Bridge connectivity
• 520 lumens vs 300 lumens of Go Gen 1
• 16 million colors
• As much as 24 hours battery life (up from 3)
• On-device management by way of a contact button
• Voice management with Alexa or Google Assistant
• Can sync the sunshine with music or films by way of an app or the HDMI sync.
• The bulb shouldn’t be replaceable, however the bulb life is 20,000 h

No USB-C

By far, the worst factor about this moveable gentle is the very fact it lacks USB-C for charging. I detest proprietary chargers, and I’ve simply spent hours looking for the charger for my Philips clippers, so I used to be already feeling significantly irritated about chargers.

To be truthful, this was launched three years in the past, when USB-C wasn’t fairly as prevalent for units aside from telephones. So I’ll forgive Philips Hue for not together with it, however it’s nonetheless annoying.

In Use

I used this with the Hue bridge, however you’ll be able to optionally use it by way of Bluetooth.

I predominantly use this in my hallway. Now we have a stupidly formed home with little or no pure gentle within the halls and only one Philips Hue Edison Filament bulb trying to gentle it. The Go lamp compliments it properly, it’s not extremely brilliant, but it surely does present some helpful further lighting.

I take advantage of the Hue movement sensors to change on and off my lights, and one attainable resolution might be to arrange the Go lamp particularly for an evening lamp for when anybody will get up and goes to the bathroom or comes house late at night time. I’ve the movement sensors to set the  Edison at a dim degree, however it’s nonetheless too brilliant when you find yourself half asleep. The Go lamp ought to present an ideal degree of brightness for this situation.

Additionally, as an experiment, I’ve used this in my TV room along with the Philips Hue Play Gradient Lightstrip, Signe Gradient Flooring Lamp and the HDMI Sync Field. I discovered that it really works fairly effectively behind my audio system, shining some ambient gentle onto the partitions behind them.

I’ve beforehand reviewed the WiZ Luminaire Cellular Transportable Mild. It is a superb gentle and just like the Hue Go in some ways, each good managed moveable lights with hundreds of thousands of colors. As I’m closely invested in Philips Hue, I’m biased and suppose the Go is best, however I believe the WiZ lamp could possibly be a greater night time gentle or studying gentle in a bed room.

Portability & Battery Life

Whereas I typically use this plugged-in on a regular basis in my hallway, I do discover the moveable nature very helpful. Once I had my kitchen redone, for some silly purpose, I didn’t put plug sockets close to the eating desk, so we’re restricted to utilizing the brilliant spotlights. That is high-quality for basic use, however it’s a bit harsh later within the night when I’ve family and friends round consuming across the desk. The moveable nature of that is excellent for some temper lighting.

The 24-hour battery life claims are a contact deceptive. That’s 24 hours when used as a nightlight. Utilizing it in dimmed mode, it drops all the way down to 10h. If you would like a brilliant gentle, it’s simply 2.5h.

Utilizing one of many colored scenes, you may get 3-18h out of it. I usually go for one of many orange/crimson hues, and it has at all times lasted the few hours we’ve got sat on the desk.

Worth and Different

The Philips Hue Go 2.0 has an RRP of £79.99. It dropped to simply underneath £50 throughout Black Friday 2023 and, previous to that, was promoting for round £60 on Amazon.

Philips Hue has introduced the Go moveable desk lamp, which was purported to be accessible by now. When it does launch, it’s going to value fairly a bit extra and offers the identical brightness, but it surely has double the battery life and an IP44 ranking.

Philips Hue additionally has some non-portable options, together with the favored Iris and Bloom desk lamps, and there’s additionally the Wellness White Ambiance Sensible Desk Mild. There may be additionally a desk lamp model of the Signe gradient.

The WiZ Luminaire Cellular Transportable Mild is meant to retail for a similar worth, £79.99. Presently, the most cost effective I can discover it for is £110.

Govee has a few good lamps, that are comparable however not moveable. The brand new RGBICW Night time Mild for Children also can play white noise.

Conclusion

Though it has been out for some time now, I’ve been impressed with how good the Philips Hue Go is. It’s each a very good entry level to the world of Philips Hue and a very good addition for present customers.

It’s a versatile lamp, too, I primarily use it to enrich my corridor lights for some further lighting close to a mirror, however the moveable nature permits me to maneuver it into the kitchen after we want low-light temper lighting at night time. I’ll nearly actually use it to assist with product images too.

There may be not a lot competitors with it, the WiZ moveable gentle being the apparent alternative. Whereas I like that lamp, availability within the UK shouldn’t be nice, and it at present prices much more. WiZ can be a lot much less established than Hue.

Final replace on 2023-01-24 / Affiliate hyperlinks / Photos from Amazon Product Promoting API