IKEA's Latest Speaker Lamp Has Spotify Tap, but No Sonos, Built In

IKEA introduced a Bluetooth speaker with Spotify Tap, saying Tuesday that the Vappeby is the first speaker to offer the feature. Spotify launched Tap in September in headphones, highlighting Samsung, Microsoft Surface, Bose, Skullcandy and Jabra as brands offering the feature, which allows users to launch a listening session with one tap. Users can begin streaming from where they left off, and another touch advances the stream to the next song. Vappeby, which doubles as a rechargeable, portable lamp, is not part of Ikea’s line of Sonos-enabled Symfonisk products that include speakers ($119 each), a frame speaker ($219) and speaker-lamps ($229). The Vappeby is due in stores next month at $64.99. IKEA didn’t respond to questions on product positioning differences for the Sonos and Spotify product lines. The Vappeby has a handle and is IP65-rated for water resistance, it said.