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IKEA's Badkruka speaker wants your Spotify button
IKEA's new boxy Bluetooth speaker leans on Spotify Tap, stereo pairing and a price that undercuts the usual suspects.
In brief
IKEA's new boxy Bluetooth speaker leans on Spotify Tap, stereo pairing and a price that undercuts the usual suspects. IKEA keeps chipping at the budget Bluetooth speaker market by shipping the features people actually use, then pricing under the brands that invented them. Originally reported by TechRadar.
IKEA builds another speaker
The Badkruka is IKEA's latest Bluetooth speaker, a small boxy unit that continues the flat-pack giant's long push into home audio.
Spotify Tap, built in
One press picks your Spotify listening back up where you left it, so you never have to unlock a phone and hunt for a playlist.
Buy two, get stereo
Two Badkrukas can be linked as a left and right pair, turning a pocket-sized box into something closer to a proper stereo setup.
Priced to tempt
The pitch is the price. IKEA lands well under the audio brands that made these features standard, which is the whole reason to look.
Black or pink, that's it
Two colorways only, both leaning into IKEA's plain-object look rather than trying to pass as hi-fi gear.
“The IKEA Badkruka comes in black or pink”
The big picture
IKEA keeps chipping at the budget Bluetooth speaker market by shipping the features people actually use, then pricing under the brands that invented them.
