JBL Link View, The Ultimate Smart Display Speaker for Your Modern Home

JBL Link View is a smart home hub like no other. With sound by JBL and the Google Assistant built-in, it gives you a premium audio experience and all the help of Google on a vibrant 8-inch touchscreen. It’s a new kind of smart speaker you can see and hear.

More Than Just a Speaker: A Gateway to a Smarter Home

The JBL Link View is more than a speaker: it’s the centre of your smart home. It’s more than just an audio device limited solely to sound. With its beautiful screen, the Link View is an all-round multimedia experience that feels like every Google Assistant speaker from Speckle. Pick a playlist, tune in your radio station or play any audio from Google Assistant. The Link View will enable you to experience your favourite songs in unrivalled detail, while simultaneously showing off photos or streaming videos on its screen.

Unveiling the Features: What Makes the JBL Link View Special

Photo courtesy of the author The JBL Link View is a masterpiece of design and an expression of love for a beautiful user experience. Allow us to explain the features that distinguish this device:

• From JBL’s signature sound: Legendary for its audio quality, the Link View will offer a unique home audio experience known only to avid JBL users. Quality audio comes first with this device. Listen to robust, full-bodied sound that fills the whole room, superb bass and natural, crystal-clear highs. The acoustic design of the device ensures a high-resolution sound for every single note, creating an immersive, unforgettable listening experience.
8-inch Sunlight-Visible Touchscreen Display:​​​​ With a high contrast ratio and vibrant colours, the Link View 8-inch display is the focal point of your watch. Viewing your photos and videos on Link View provides an immersive experience, and all of your apps appear crisp and visually appealing. With a beautiful design, fluid animations, and convenient features such as swiping to view notifications, the Link View display is a joy to look at, swipe, and use.
• Your Digital Assistant, Powered by Google Assistant: Control a wide range of functions with your voice – just speak, and the Link View will respond, playing your tunes and music playlists, setting alarms or timers, making hands-free calls, sending messages, navigating through maps, controlling your smart devices at home, and more, thanks to Google Assistant’s deep knowledge base and easy-to-use voice-recognition.
• ​​Connect Your JBL Link View to Your Smart Home Ecosystem – Compatible with popular smart home automation systems including Google Assistant, Amazon Alexa, Apple HomeKit and more.
  Your Full Life in a Single Glance: From your smartphone to your entertainment system, ensure convenient control of your JBL Link View smart display with these smart accessories.: • Smart charging stand • Hub • Charger • Car mount • Wall mount ​​​​​​• Hub • Tripod • Charger • TV mount​​​​​​​ • Hub • TV mount • ​​​​​​​Privacy shade • ​​​​​​​Smart charging stand • ​​​​​​​Smart charging stand Video Calling: See Who’s Beloved from Coast-to-Coast:Make a personal call to a long-distance friend or family member with the Link View’s built-in Duo app, a seamless way to video call home. Do your holidays look properly festive if you can’t show off your holiday snaps? You hold up the phone showing an out-of-focus photo, and I hold up the Link View showing the picture so clear and sharp I feel like I could reach through and touch the decorations! It allows you to have a chat while still being socially distanced and safe from COVID-19. It allows you to stay connected without having to physically be in the same room. Multi-Room Audio: Fill Your Home With SoundConnect multiple JBL Link speakers throughout your home and group them together to create the same playlist in every room. Multi-room audio provides an immersive, cohesive sound environment throughout the house so you can enjoy it wherever you are, when you are entertaining guests or just relaxing at home.
• Hands-free (The Voice Is Free): The Benefit Convenience is in Your Hands: Hands-free operation uses your voice to control your JBL Link View. With hands-free control of the web, your hands are free for other things, which makes your home a more efficient and convenient place to be. Whether you’re cooking, cleaning, or just relaxing, hands-free control adds a little convenience to your day.

Beyond the Basics: How the JBL Link View Enhances Your Everyday Life

The JBL Link View is the next evolution in a smart display speaker; it makes your life better in true and meaningful ways, transforming how you connect with your home from one simple, everyday place.

• You-centric: Learns your likes over time: The Link View adapts to your preferences and recommends more music, news or other items of interest the more you use it. You will continue to discover new content catered just to you because the more you use it, the more it learns your preferences and tailors the experience to your unique tastes and habits. It becomes a mirror of your interests and accommodates them on demand to provide a truly you-centric experience. Your Entertainment Headquarters: A World Of Content At Your Fingertips:
• Your home entertainment hub is the JBL Link View. Listen to the music services you love – Spotify, Apple Music, Pandora ­– watch videos from YouTube, browse the web, download a world of apps from the Google Play store and much more – all from a large touchscreen interface. The Link View is your entertainment center of gravity, your centre of the universe, your world of content: It’s time for you to enjoy it.
• Enhanced Security: Keep Your Home Safe Wherever You Are: Link View isn’t limited to your living room but can work with your home’s security cameras. With the Link View, you can view live footage from your camera directly onto its display and, if you’re feeling a little uneasy about being home alone, you can speak through your security camera with Link View. Information at the tip of your fingers. Need the answer to a question, the weather, a reminder or directions? The Link View lets you do all of the above and more with Google Assistant. Put everything you need to know right at your fingertips.
• Versatile and Stylish Design: Brings Home Outstanding Sound, Jan11, 2019 – The JBL Link View is sleek and modern: it mirrors your home décor. It fits perfectly on af or a main room focal point with a small footprint. Whether it is placed on a kitchen counter, nightstand or coffee table, this modest but fashionable design seamlessly blends into your home.

Comparing the JBL Link View to its Competitors

It’s not to say that other smart display speakers such as the Amazon Echo Show or the Google Home Hub don’t also make excellent smart displays, but JBL’s Link View is the better speaker by a comfortable margin. If music is your thing, you’ll get a superior, immersive sound with the JBL, which truly is the function over form in its category, quite literally. The Link View is stylish, has a good touch screen and is a breeze to navigate. It’s competitive with doubly competitive products from both Amazon and Google that serve the same market, yet it has the best audio component. Considering everything here, you get a whole lot for $249.99. The competition hews a little nearer or has one or two standout features, products that ought to get a good second look after seeing what JBL could do with its Link View smart display. We liked it a lot.

The JBL Link View: More Than Just a Smart Speaker

But the JBL Link View is much more than a smart speaker. It’s a bridge to a smarter, more connected home. It’s not enough to have a smart speaker with flawless audio and a brilliant display. In the JBL Link View, they come together for a genuinely memorable experience. This clever product is an absolute must-have for an entertaining or connected home. Use it as an upgrade to your audio experience, as a smart home management system, or to communicate with your dearest. The JBL Link View will transform your home into a safe haven of comfort and connection.

Exploring the JBL Link Family: A Range of Options to Suit Your Needs

JBL offers smart display speakers and other audio devices to complement the Link View:

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• JBL Link Duo: Small and stylish smart display speaker, with a 5-inch touchscreen display for those who want something a bit smaller or less intrusive. JBL Link 300 Speaker: A premium speaker with great sound quality, perfect for the music enthusiast looking for a speaker with the best audio reproduction. It streams because you want to have the best listening experience and to listen to your tracks in the highest possible quality. JBL Link 300 powered by the Google Assistant: outstanding HiFi sound, features direct sistema accedi comando vocale Google, Bluetooth 4.2, Spotify Connect, Chromecast Built-in, sense audio, tactile buttons, auto on/off, dimensioni: 93 x 17 x 20 mm, 1,3 kg.
• JBL Link View 2: The latest iteration of the JBL Link View. Now with a larger 10-inch full HD touchscreen display, Dolby Audio and improved styling, this generation of the Link View is perfect for those who want the ultimate visual and audio experience from Google Assistant. The larger display combines with improved audio output to provide the ultimate JBL Link experience.
• JBL Link View 8: The same functionality and features as the original JBL Link View but in a more affordable package. A good choice for someone wanting the core features of the JBL Link View at an affordable price.
• Final Verdict: How to Choose the Right JBL Link Speaker for You Above is an instruction that describes a task, paired with an input that provides further context. Write a response that appropriately completes the request. Simply put, you should figure out what features are most important to you. If you want it all, a big showy visual spectacular, the JBL Link View 2 is your ticket. If you need something that’s small and competitively inexpensive, choose the JBL Link Duo. If you want the primo sound, you can’t beat the JBL Link 300 Speaker. If you want it all for under $100, the original JBL Link View, which to my ear sounds better than the Link winner. The newer J is widely regarded as having of the Link family. To me, it doesn good as the Link 300, but it’s the right Johnny-on-one-note-it-all-sounds-good solution.

Key Takeaways: Why the JBL Link View is a Must-Have

I think that selling point – that lifestyle play – is what makes the JBL Link View such a compelling proposition as not just a good piece of hardware but also a key to unlocking a smarter, more connected, more immersive home. Yes, it’s not a requirements-checking ‘just right’ piece of hardware, it is also a shining example of what can happen when you put a superb audio-producing speaker inside something that functions more like a tablet – a gift to see and to hear. And, to control. If it’s luxury, experientialism and ease-of-use you’re after, the Link View is not merely an entry point into a smarter home experience but a bolt-on to make it feel more ambient, more delightful, more connected, easier, funnier and, to borrow a phrase from that Google Assistant saw, genuinely helpful. 5/5 a definite buy.