If I had to choose one at this price/form factor right now, say for a big shopping holiday coming up, I’d go with the Beats Pill XL ($270). If you are looking for high end sound, I can easily recommend any of the three above, but I have inside knowledge on a new product that will be launched at CES that will blow these away.įrankly, some of the lower-priced models below will sound 95% as good but cost about half as much and have some other great features. Moving them around the house might make sense but they aren’t on-the-go portable. The others are movable, of course, but nothing you would take on a daily basis. I’ve been lucky enough to demo all of these great speakers.Īs far as portability, three in this category can fit into a small bag: the Bose Soundlink III, Big Jambox and Beats Pill XL. The speakers in this realm include the Bose Soundlink III, Big Jambox, Beats Pill XL, Marshall Stanmore, Harman Kardon Aura, Cambridge Audio Minx and Bowers and Wilkins T7.
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Partying, gaming, enjoying portable movie sound, placing conference calls and entertaining dinner parties are all still very relevant.
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The video spelled out the variety of uses a portable Bluetooth speaker could have - still very relevant today. The first true portable Bluetooth speaker in the ‘modern sense’ was the Jawbone Jambox, which was a hit ignited by this amazing Sandwich video in 2010. Sure, many Bluetooth speakers existed previously, but no one really put it all together like Jawbone did. Lithium batteries became light enough and have an energy density high enough to give those speakers and radios hours of playing time. Phones with the ability to play lots of music over Bluetooth - like the iPhone - started to become ubiquitous. A2DP Bluetooth 2.1 allowed stereo speakers to be driven wirelessly through smartphones and computers. The portable Bluetooth speaker market was created by a combination of factors.
Read on to find out who takes our Best Portable Bluetooth Speaker award… And what about our previous champ: the Ultimate Ears Boom? Spoiler alert: a new winner has emerged. It has been a solid year and a half since our last Big “Best Portable Bluetooth speaker” competition, though we’ve done tons of updates to it in the months since.Ī lot of our favorites are still around while others have been updated and new players have emerged. (TL DR: Winner, best size, best sound, runner-up best apps, best budget, best $300)