Bushnell’s New Bluetooth Speaker Has A Touchscreen And Golf Caddy Ambitions

The Wingman HD’s touchscreen includes specifications astir nan existent play people and clasp you’re playing. | Image: Bushnell

Bushnell has announced a caller type of its Wingman Bluetooth speaker that features a 3.5-inch colour touchscreen pinch elaborate metrics connected nan play people you’re playing. It’s an upgrade to nan company’s Wingman View that launched successful early 2023 pinch a monochromatic LCD display. The Wingman HD carries guardant nan aforesaid $199.99 pricing arsenic its predecessor, and is expected to motorboat successful mid-October.

The Wingman HD uses its built-in GPS to find what people you’re playing based connected your location and provides specifications astir distances and hazards displayed connected nan surface aliases announced done nan speaker. It tin besides beryllium connected to Bushnell’s mobile app, which provides further functionality specified arsenic flyovers of nan full spread and scorekeeping.

The Wingman HD’s semi-cylindrical design, which is flattened connected 1 broadside to accommodate nan screen, incorporates a brace of 15-watt drivers that activity alongside passive radiators to boost little frequencies. There’s an integrated magnetic equine truthful you tin instrumentality it to your play cart, and a caller characteristic called “Dynamic Audio Adjustment” that increases nan measurement to compensate for nan sound of your play cart while driving to nan adjacent hole. 

Indoor and outdoor EQ modes optimize nan sound according to your location. You tin besides trigger civilization sound effects, specified arsenic nan polite applause of a crowd, aliases grounds your ain connection for illustration “good shot!” And if you’re playing pinch a large crowd, up to 100 Wingman HD speakers tin beryllium connected to play simultaneously, creating immoderate genuine Caddy Shack vibes connected nan greens. (Cue Kenny Loggins’ I’m Alright.)