Govee is updating its Matter-compatible smart floor lamp line with three new options, two of which—the $170 Floor Lamp 3 and the $130 Lantern Floor Lamp—it says will have more accurate colors and zero color banding, even at their lowest brightness. The third lamp is a cheaper version of the Floor Lamp 3 called the Floor Lamp 3 Lite that the company is also asking $130 for.
Govee’s floor lamps are mostly upright sticks with a strip of RGBIC LED lights—the kind where each LED can show a different color, rather than the whole strip producing a single hue—on one side that’s meant to be aimed at a wall or corner for accent lighting. But the company, whose catalog of lighting I’ve always thought was too obnoxiously oversaturated for anything other than maybe set decoration on Batman Forever, has recently started using a new proprietary color-blending tech it calls LuminBlend+, which is in use in the Floor Lamp 3.
The Floor Lamp 3 will also feature 1,000K – 10,000K white light, which is expanded from 2,700K to 6500K in the Floor Lamp 2. The company says it can reach up to 2,100 lumens (for reference, the brightest Philips Hue smart bulb peaks at 1,521 lumens) and that it’s suitable for lighting as much as 645 square feet. Its light is spread across 144 RGB LEDS and an equal number of white LEDs, or double what the Floor Lamp 2 has. Like its predecessor, the Govee Floor Lamp 3 has a light-up RGBIC ring around its chunky, conical base, too.
Meanwhile, the Floor Lamp 3 Lite is, feature for feature, almost identical to the Floor Lamp 2. Its main differences appear to be that it’s $30 cheaper and dimmer, at 1,400 lumens, than the 1,725-lumen Floor Lamp 2.
The Govee Lantern Floor Lamp is a pretty different product, though. Instead of essentially being an upright, standalone strip light, it looks and functions closer to a normal A19 screw-in lightbulb lamp, except instead of a lampshade, it has a mushroom-like enclosure, the surface of which lights up with effects that are made up of patterned gradients of color across its surface. The Lantern Floor Lamp is 60 inches tall (5 feet) and stands on a thin stalk with a flat base at the bottom. Govee says it covers the same broad white light temperature range as the Floor Lamp 3, but only outputs 1,400 lumens.
All three of Govee’s new Floor Lamps feature Matter support, meaning they’re compatible with any of the major smart home platforms. You’ll still need Govee’s app if you want to get the most out of these effects-driven lamps, of course, since Matter doesn’t support finer control than turning the whole lamp on and off, adjusting its brightness, and switching between solid colors across all the LEDs. The lamps are available today, either on Amazon (Floor Lamp 3, Floor Lamp 3 Lite, Lantern Floor Lamp) or Govee’s own website.
