Google Assistant seemed to recognize more of them, at least, sort of. Ugly-looking pinks aside, stalwarts like red, blue and green come through just fine - and if you open the Wiz app, you'll find a color selector with dozens of different settings, including oddball Crayola rejects like 'Razzmatazz,' 'Free Speech Green' and 'Gorse.' What's extra odd is that Alexa and Google seem to recognize some of these settings (including a great-looking 'Deep Pink'), but not all of them. Replace a bulb like that with the Philips Wiz Connected LED, then use it for an average of three hours per day - it'll pay for itself in energy savings in about two years, then keep on shining for another 20 years.Ĭolor quality is mostly accurate, but the bulb's palette has a few weak spots. For comparison, that old-fashioned, 60-watt incandescent would add almost $60 to your bill over the same stretch.

If you turned the Philips Wiz Connected LED on at full brightness and left it on for an entire year, it'd only add a little over $8 to your energy bill. That's the same as you'll get from a standard 60-watt incandescent light bulb, but since this is an LED we're talking about, the power draw is much less - just 8.5 watts. The default setting puts out a claimed 800 lumens of brightness at a yellowy color temperature of 2,700 K. Light bulb basicsįor the most part, the Philips Wiz Connected LED works like any other light bulb - just screw it in and turn it on when you want light.

If you're interested in deeper integrations with third-party products and services, or advanced features that can sync your lights with your TV or with your music, then you'll still need to spend up on something from Philips Hue, Lifx or Nanoleaf - but for simple, voice-activated, color-changing light that you can control and program from your phone, these Wiz Connected bulbs will do the trick for a fraction of the cost. All of that makes these bulbs a terrific and worthy value pick if you're interested in changing up the colors in your home - and newly announced bulb shapes like a candelabra bulb and an outdoor-rated PAR38 bulb make it easy to expand your setup to include any fixture you like.

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