Hello and welcome to the show!
My name is Alex and this is TechFlow!
So, if you've been with us for a long time, you'll know that, back in the day, we used
to be obsessed with, and make lots of videos on Bluetooth speakers.
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Hopefully, the editor's put three thumbnails on.
But that all stopped - that all stopped when I did the UE Boom review.
Now, I'm going to check so that I get my facts right here but it says that the UE Boom is
IPX 7 rated.
Technically, that means that we've got full splashdown accepted, right.
So, if you drop your device in up to 3 feet of water (or 1 metre of water), your device
is still going to work, right.
I did that video and I told thousands of people that the UE Boom - it passed its water test
and it passed in our tests with flying colours.
Two hours after we shot the video, it broke.
I threw away my £100 UE Boom.
Really annoyed.
Since that video, I haven't touched Bluetooth speakers or mentioned them until today.
We're breaking some ground today.
So, over here, we've got a table full of Bluetooth speakers.
Now, we've got the well represented Bose Sound Link Mini, we've got a signature series here
from LG, we've got an August one (we're doing a review on this) and we've also got an Android
Bluetooth speaker (review on this also coming soon too).
But, I'm going to be focusing on these two bad boys.
This is, this is the PH 4 from LG and this is the PH 2 from LG, right.
So, these two speakers here are IPX 4 rated, right, which, that means, in a nut-shell,
they're going to be fine with splash damage but can't be submerged.
Well, I'm just going to put these in there whilst I finish off this video.
Right, so I've just fully submerged these two things in water.
I'm going to set them down - actually I'm not, I'm going to talk about them for a second.
So LG actually gave me these when I went to CES - they were like: "Yo, Alex, do you want
to take these two speakers away and, and have a look at them?"
And I was like, you know what, I'm going to compare them to the video that I did on the
UE Boom.
So, as you can see up here, we've got a power button.
Let's turn this one on here.
Errr, and, let's turn this one on too.
Got a nice ring around there - nice LED.
Nice sound effect.
This one didn't turn on.
Both still working.
Right, so we've got a light button at the bottom on each of these speakers so we can
have the light on, we can have it flashing or we can just turn it plain and simply off.
Same with this bad boy - as you can see, it's flashing and the light button is there.
We can keep it on solid or just turn it off.
So, they're both Bluetooth speakers and underneath the flaps protecting them we have, let's have
a look, hopefully, no water.
Yep, no water - we have a 3.5 mm jack and a lightning, not a lightning, a, a, these
are micro USB's for charging, right.
Now, they also have these really cool clips so you can clip them to your shower head or
something and listen to music when you're in the shower.
That's why I really like this small one, right.
And then this big one is just a plain carbon rip-off of the UE Boom which is why I am doing
this comparison.
Again, with that same mechanism here and they're very strong, so you can strap them around
things and do as you please - strap them to the outside of your bag and listen to your
music.
Err, and they also have a bass button on each speaker, so with a single push, you can boost
the bass.
Right, so sound quality - let's test them out against the Bose Sound Link Mini, right,
because, well, this is the king of the sound, Bluetooth, Bluetooth portable sound speakers.
Sound Link Mini, number 4, number 2.
So, first you're going to here the Sound Link Mini, then you're going to hear the PH 2 and
then you're going to hear the PH 4.
PH 2.
Bose, wait a minute, Bose Mini Sound Link.
It's just the king!
Now, the PH 4 with water dripping off of it.
Press the Bass button...
Turns the bass off.
Press the Bass button...
Gives you more bass.
Let's crank it up!
OK, I'm going to round this video up by saying that my favourite Bluetooth speaker of all
time, for portability, is the Bose Sound Link Mini or the Sound Link Mini 2.
Both of them are the same - they sound exactly the same.
But these, right, I'm just super impressed with them which is why I brought you this
quick video.
Err, LG came them to me and they were like: "Look, Alex, we've got these new speakers
for 2017, erm, they're not, like, fully submergible but we think that you can submerge them so
have some fun with it.
We heard that your UE Boom broke so you can have these."
So this is like a carbon copy rip-off of the UE Boom in my opinion - the way it looks and
it has these cool lights on it.
Sounds pretty good, it's very loud, I've just submerged it in water and it's absolutely
fine even though you're not meant to.
It has a bass boost button and a flashing light, err, if you're retro like that.
Same with this one - this is probably my favourite one.
Err, for the size of it, it creates a lot of loud noise and I love these little clips
- you can literally, err, I remember when I was on holiday when I was testing it out,
I clipped it to the shower head and, err, I was listening to music when I was in the
shower.
Err, so, yes, really cool.
I'll drop a link to them in the description guys and I think that they're just, no, they're
just really cool products to be honest with you - I thought that I'd just bring you this
quick video.
My name's been Alex, this has been TechFlow.
We'll catch you in the next one.