About this deal
The fastest recorded speed was 8.2Mbps, after using the companion Huawei HiLink phone app, which has a handy signal strength meter to find the area of strongest signal in the home. Speeds tested throughout the days dropped below 1Mbps at times, tending to hover around 2-3Mbps.
The 4G connectivity certainly gives the Huawei AI Cube a unique appeal but smart speakers with Alexa support are ten a penny these days. Its success will hinge on two far more prosaic elements: sound quality and price, neither of which I know much about right now. WLAN: WiFi 802.111a/b/g/n/ac, dual-band(2.4GHz & 5GHz), 2 x 2 MIMO, 2 x 2 DBDC(Dual-band, dual-carrier) The following table shows a side-by-side comparison of the Huawei B535 HomeFi Plus and the Huawei AI Cube B900 routers:Three previously offered a choice of two 4G-powered home broadband routers: the Huawei B535 HomeFi+ and the Huawei AICubeB900. Like the camera sliders of Echo Show speakers, Huawei makes this button stand out – as if buttons are more trustworthy than touch pads.
Nor are there any of the other common wireless speaker methods on offer. The Huawei AI Cube doesn’t have Bluetooth and doesn’t show up in the Spotify app; there’s no support for Spotify Connect.In the flesh, it is loud, making plenty of noise in a busy room. While loud is good, there was depth and roundness to the sound too, though without testing the audio quality alongside its key competitors or in a controlled environment.