Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “Why Is This Bluetooth Speaker So Popular?”.
So this thing is been around for a while right, Ultimate Ears: they’ve been doing this boom speaker different versions of it for a really long time. In fact, this was one of the first Bluetooth speakers I featured on the channel once upon a time. Well, not this version, not the new version of it, the original and then some of the variations that existed at that point in time. Crazy popular bluetooth, speaker, you’ve seen this brand all over the place, you’re gon na catch it at Best Buy you’re. Of course, gon na see it on Amazon and they just were able to produce a pretty nice amount of sound, given the form factor and from a design perspective they’re pretty nice-looking.
In my opinion, this is a new version from them they’re calling it my boom 3 they’re, still claiming 360-degree, true and balanced sound, so they’ve got this cylindrical design. I’M sure you’ve seen one of these things popping around a barbecue in a back yard, something along those lines. There’S one button to kind of control everything, so anyone reaching out for it can figure out what to do with it. If you need to pause it like to have a conversation, answer a phone call or something there’s this big button on the top. That’S gon na behave that way. Here’S another cool feature party up. You compare two speakers for stereo sound, so you could just sort of amplify what you’re listening to if you have more than one of these, and you can do up to a hundred and fifty plus what certainly you could imagine three or four, I don’t know you’re In a college dorm and it’s a popular speaker, you’re having a party for the whole floor and you’re like mmm, bring those ones, and now you got a bigger stereo, it’s kind of cool 15 hours of battery life. They say it’s got durable fabric, customizable drop proof.
I don’t know about proof, they also say waterproof. Ip67 I’d say resistant one more time. Let’S see what color we got cuz. Typically, these things come in different colors they’ve always had this cool artwork on the packaging as well right, oh, we got a camo pattern.
Oh baby, that’s cool gigantic buttons on here for volume. Part of the success of this product is the fact that it’s so easy to interact with got this loop on it. So you could attach it to something if you want to it, says unbox therapy on its customer. Oh, my goodness, gracious! Alright, yours is not gon na, say that this is what they’re calling the magic button play, pause and, of course, advanced tracks, and then there’s also an LED light for power as well.
So a hundred and fifty bucks or a selection of seven different colors or you can pay 30 extra bucks and customize the color to what whatever you want, thousands of colors to choose from so personalization of your Bluetooth speaker, that’s pretty cool! Now look at the size of this thing. It’S like a you know. It’S like a beverage can or something now. Unfortunately, it’s a microUSB.
It is not type C, but there is an LED indicator there now, the cables they include. I always like them. This is the one upside, even though I criticized the microUSB connector, the type of cable they give. You is foolproof, so you know this connector is somewhat flimsy, like on PlayStation controllers. I hate this connector on PlayStation controllers for this particular device. The way that it fits in there since its recessed, so it’s protected because it’s recessed and therefore if it gets yanked or something it’s not gon na, put all the pressure on the connector itself. So if you’re gon na go microUSB, you have a nice cable like this, it’s flat too, so it’s not gon na get all scrambled up. It does and of course you have trademark sound effects.
All of the features of your speaker now there’s an app that goes with it, which makes it easier to pair this thing up with other devices as a couple of other extra features. But you know in practice. In most cases, people just connect to this, like any other Bluetooth device and get to the party.
So that’s the way I’m gon na connect to it. It’S a funny thing with these speakers. It’S always a benefit drawback thing with portability versus sound. You try to figure out like what is the optimal trade-off. This, I think, for a lot of people fits right in the groove far as musics concerned.
This is where Kirk tells me to shout out is boy. You see the volume controls working on the slider into volume all the way they say. 360. Sound, of course, is a little bit less sound coming out the back if you spin it around, but like it’s most of the way 360 pretty similar volume in each direction.
I almost forgot, because I’ve used these products in the past. They do sell accessories that utilize this on the bottom here for little docking type setups where it could charge on the dock, so you always have a charge of ready to go. I mean, what’s the worst thing, you’re on your way out, you need the Bluetooth speaker, it’s not charged because you didn’t have plugged in what can I say about this particular product. I mean look, there’s a reason that you see it everywhere and it’s not just the fact that it shows up inside a Best Buy.
It has to be a decent product and it keep on sort of iterating without fully changing the thing. They’Re kind of implementing that don’t broke. Ain’T broke, don’t broke, don’t do it, don’t fix it fix it, don’t strategy. I can imagine this being very popular.
I think it does strike that balance for Portability and sound it’s loud enough for a party. It’S not gon na knock your face off it ain’t, no dvla $ 3,000 speaker. If you haven’t seen that video go check it out, but it’s not meant to be.
It’S meant to be a simple user interface that everybody can understand and a speaker that you’re willing to take with you. That’S the key. If you don’t have it with you, it ain’t much of a party .