Hello everyone
So, I've been sent something interesting Ion Party Starter to look at, this could be
quite a good Christmas gift.
It's called the Ion Party Starter and basically
it's a loudspeaker for your smartphone
but more importantly, it's a Bluetooth loudspeaker. And when I say a loudspeaker I mean
loud sound, projected sound, something you could happily listen to
at a party. Now it charges via usb, like I say
it uses Bluetooth and it also has a pulsing light on the top
so, you know, it's full of all the fun and frivolities that you would want at
Christmas. Noise, lights and charges via usb.
Let's take a look in the box which I haven't actually done yet so this is a bit
of an unboxing as well.
Now hopefully I can just grab a tab, there we go Ion Party Starter
there we go, right, let's have a look what we get.
So there's the actual unit itself. Now I don't think, let's have a look and
see if there's something in the box. Ahh! There is. A usb cable
always helpful and a small instruction manual. Like I say, because this charges
via usb
let's just lie that down there a little bit,
and bring a bit of focus on there shall we? Because this charges via usb
It's the kind of thing you can throw in your bag and take with you. It's got a battery in it. Brilliant
and certainly very solid.
Fairly weighty I would say. I'll check the exact weight on it in a little bit
but let's just see if we can turn this
on shall we? That's the light.
Ah, right there we go.
Right, so, I've got my Nexus 5 here,
the brand new Nexus 5. Let's pop it into Bluetooth
and we'll see if we can get that to start syncing.
Bearing in mind I haven't read the instructions I'm just going with it
as it were.
Let's see if we can get this Ion Party Starter going.
It's come on. How difficult was a Bluetooth thing these days
to make work?
Oh wow! That's blindingly bright. So
you'd think hold that down for a certain number seconds
let's try three. No, and if all else fails let's resort to actually looking at the manual.
Gutted. Well, I say manual, what I actually mean is a piece of
paper, but anyway, right what have we got here?
Charging it.
Controls, volume, Bluetooth, pairing light,
reset button. Turn up the volume dial to turn it on
open Bluetooth settings on your music device
connect to the Ion Party Starter speaker,
Let's just try searching then. Oh, in fact we didn't have to press that, must have been a
reset button instead. So
Ion Speaker, go on, let's turn the lights on shall we?
There we go, you can get a
a better sense for it there.
That is brilliantly bright. Looks awesome in here. I feel like a 1970s disco.
Right anyway, so we've got this speaker connected
so let's turn this
up and let's throw on
some music quickly. Now I obviously have to be careful because of copyright and
everything like that
so we'll try for
where's my music app gone. We'll just have to see how well this works
in practice. So let's have
something that hopefully won't be copyright, maybe we can just find a little
bit of abstract disco music would be good. Just go with that, start the radio.
OK, now this should be playing on the Ion Party Starter
oh, there we go, and my notifications.
We'll flick through a few of these,
just so I'm not breaking copyright. Didn't like me touching it.
There you go, and it's sound reactive as well so
that is so cool!
Yeah!
I'm going to go and play around with this a little bit more and I'll be back for a full
review
in a couple of days time most likely but I thought you might like to have a
first look at what is probably going to be one of the coolest gifts
for this Christmas for anyone with a smartphone.
The Ion Party Starter very very cool and
how awesome is that LED array on there. Very good!
That's the Ion Party Starter folks