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Hey everyone got the JBL Flip 4 from Harmon here this
speaker actually releases on July 5th and it retails at $149 at selected
retailers. So I've got a review model here still in the plastic and still new
so hopefully the opening is a bit more graceful but let's see how we go.
Got that out of the way...
Alright so opening this just show everyone what's going on
they've got this really cool festivals shot here maybe one of those running
festival where they throw paint at you and you pay like an exorbitant amount of
money for that and you've got this piece here which probably has the instruction
manual and things like that typically I wouldn't be inclined to go through any
of this and I just get into the device but I'm in the mood to tease everyone a
bit more and I obviously I need to show everyone what they're getting as well so
let's see what's going on here and then we'll get to the speaker absolutely
destroy everything alright cool so what we've got here
that looks like the main manual where gives you the main controls quite a lot
of pages I assume there's going to be the warranty card. Always good. And then
after that I think it's just a policy if you're going to throw it away which
would be unfortunate alright onto the main item so the speaker again got it
right here I've got the white colourway it comes in a few more there's also
black teal and couple of others as well so I guess what's cool about this
speaker straight off the bat is that the material feels pretty cool it comes with
the ipx7 waterproof rating so I guess with all the waterproof rating
differences ipx7 is really separated from the low ones because you can
actually submerge it underwater through a metre
for 30 minutes so pretty impressive there it's also got the cord so if you
want to hang it on the patio in the shower or something like that or just
like hold it around your hand so you don't drop it it's pretty good and yeah
they call it the Flip because you can either just stand it up or you
can put it horizontally voila okay so let's turn it on and I'll
pair it up with my phone and then let's play a song umm so yeah one of the
selling points of this speaker is that there are these external flaps which
they really push and it's supposedly supposed to increase the bass a lot more
yeah so let's pair it up and then let's listen to a song. Okay and in the app
you can see that there's a party option and there's a stereo option
I believe the stereo option allows you to select one speaker for the left and
then one speaker for the right. One of the key selling points that JBL also
mentioned is that you can pair up to 100 of these speakers in this day and age
where there's a variety of like Bluetooth wireless speakers I'm not sure
what the odds are that 100 of your friends will have the same speaker but
in the chance that maybe one does you can pair up and yeah jam to the same
song at the next party.
So let's give it a bit of Childish
So initial impressions pretty good bass pretty good balance, it's pretty clear.
Let's see how loud it goes. This is full blast.
Pretty good so I guess we have a bit of background music now and I can
just talk about some of the other features. There are the controls just from the
side here so you got increase and decrease volume, you've got pause and
you've also got the Bluetooth button if you want to connect you'll flip forward
to other compatible devices you just hit the middle and they all sync and then if
you hit it again only your speaker will play the given audio so the speaker has
up to 12 hours of playing time obviously this would depend on how loud the volume
is. So if you were blasting it at full blast then you'd expect a bit less and
the milliamp hours are 3000 so it's pretty standard in terms of the price
range of $149 having 12 hours the play time is pretty much smack in the middle
now there are some other wireless Bluetooth speakers which have 10 hours
for a bit less and some other speakers provide 15 hours for around 20 to 30
dollars more so in terms of what JBL has priced this speaker it's pretty
reasonable the sound quality is great as well solid build waterproof as well also
salt waterproof which is important feature to note into some phones are
waterproof in freshwater but saltwater you find out that the warranties not
really helping you out there so pretty solid speaker and yes thanks for watching our
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