#PHILIPS HUE INDOOR WALL LIGHT FULL#
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#PHILIPS HUE INDOOR WALL LIGHT SOFTWARE#

If you’ve ever wanted to take a fancy smart light outdoors, this is it. Its integration with the Hue smart light system and all its trappings is the killer feature, for which privilege you are paying roughly £40 extra. It could do with more onboard controls, too. It feels well made, but its minimalist design might not fit with everyone’s decor, and the inability to tell how much charge is left in the battery is irritating. It is very handy to be able to pick it up and add impromptu light to a table or carry it outdoors for summer evenings. It is a good small indoor table lamp, ideal for mood lighting when used on its base.

#PHILIPS HUE INDOOR WALL LIGHT PORTABLE#

The Philips Hue Go portable table lamp is a good example of a dual-use product: one that works equally well indoors and out, potentially replacing two devices with a multi-purpose one. The Philips Hue Go portable table lamp costs £139.99 ( $159.99) and is available in black or white with different-coloured grips.įor comparison, the Philips Hue Go 2 costs £79.99, rechargeable camping lights of a similar brightness start about £40, and rechargeable table lamps typically cost from £80. Signify publishes annual sustainability reports.

#PHILIPS HUE INDOOR WALL LIGHT SOFTWARE#

The company commits to a minimum of five years of software support, but has a track record of much longer.

When used on the base, the lamp is lit directly from the mains, bypassing the battery and prolonging its life. The battery can be removed, but replacement options are not yet available.

#PHILIPS HUE INDOOR WALL LIGHT FULL#

Philips Hue’s parent company, Signify, rates the battery in the lamp for at least 800 full charge cycles, with at least 80% of its original capacity and the bulb for at least 20,000 hours or at least five years of typical use. Photograph: Samuel Gibbs/The Guardian Sustainability The lamp will produce light of almost any colour and can cycle through them with presses of its top button. A full charge of the battery takes about four hours. The one thing you can’t do is see how long is left on the battery, which seems like an oversight. I put it in the middle of the table for a dinner party in winter, synced it to Spotify for some music-linked lighting effects, and used it to light a night of cards, all of which worked very well. That’s long enough for most outdoor evenings in the summer, but it isn’t the kind of lamp you’d take on a camping trip. Pick the lamp up and it switches to battery power, lasting up to 48 hours at its dimmest setting or about five at its brightest. When used on its little circular power base, the lamp draws electricity straight from the mains, bypassing the battery to avoid it wearing out.

Photograph: Samuel Gibbs/The Guardian Specificationsīattery life 5-48 hours, depending on brightness The Hue app has a range of scenes, colours and brightnesses to choose from.

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