hello I'm wanderer001 and this is my review of the JBL clip 3 portable waterproof wireless
bluetooth speaker I know that is a bit of a mouthful so short and sweet of it this is a
portable bluetooth speaker it is waterproof that is why you're looking at it you probably know the
brand JBL and you know it's a decent brand so hence you're here you're wondering about this
particular speaker well let's take a look at what we're actually getting here the front is just you
know your kind of grill for your speaker enclosure and again I say enclosure because this is a ipx7
rated device which means that it is waterproof meaning it can be submerged in up to 3 feet of
water and not hurt the device any more than that wouldn't recommend it but you know for sure it
is splash proof it is waterproof up to that depth for myself I primarily got this because I wanted
a speaker that I could listen to my podcasts while I was showering I take hot and steamy showers and
have killed several other types of speakers that weren't waterproof so I was definitely looking
for a waterproof device on the front aside from that enclosure you've got you have your volume
controls for lowering and raising the volume you also have your play icon right there so tapping
that will play whatever you have I will say that there is no skipping tracks feature on the front
as a dedicated button you do have to double tap your play button in order to skip ahead
I will say there is no skipping backwards I did originally think that it was holding down the
plus or minus which just raise the volume alright so that is the front the other reason that I like
this is it has a clip the clip makes it very easy to clip on to your backpack to your bike to your
belt loop or in my case a shower ring the clip itself is not actually made of metal as I saw a
lot of other reviewers state it is actually just a very straight plastic inside there which is where
I'm trying to focus on you will notice that it does have a little bit of a textured rubber ish
inlay there to make it easier that make it easier to grip onto things the clip itself
is really sturdy I have no problems with that and it does go on the entire device keeping it almost
like a bumper ring to help protect your overall device now if we flip the device to the back you
have this very large rubberized footprint which is kind of focusing there there are little nubs
so if you if you lay this flat it's not resting directly on the back and as you heard it just
bangs down no problems whatsoever coming across to the side you have your encase power button and
Bluetooth buttons so this is how you would power on device this is how you would pair the device
I'll do that in a moment but you'll notice that it is in completely enclosed this is why you get
that waterproof rating on the bottom here this is your well branding but also opening it up is your
housing for your micro USB your micro USB port and right over there which is a little hard to
see is your 3.5 millimeter jack so you can connect this to bluetooth which is primarily how you're
going to use this but the option is there to use headphone jack if you wanted to you'll notice that
the housing cover is nice and thick so you really don't have to worry about water seepage into here
which is great and that which you might not know is actually a microphone that you can use with
this so if you happen to have this on and a call comes in you don't want to pull your phone out of
your pocket you could use this the speaker quality I like it's great the microphone quality not the
greatest in my opinion now this does have a 1,000 milliamp battery in it which is supposed to give
you 10 hours of playtime I do say supposed to because it varies on how loud you listen to it
and what you're listening to so for myself I got fairly close to the not the 10 hours and that's
mostly just listening to podcasts not actually listening to music the charge time to charge
that one thousand milliamp battery is about two hours and 45 minutes rounding up to three hours
which is what most of the documentation says so not terrible for something like this that will
give you that length of listening time okay we're going to power the my sub so you get to hear what
that sounds like since this has no screen on it everything is done through audio cues so I
actually will pull my lapel mic and put it next to the speaker so you can hear that so that was
the device powering up and we're going to come across and we are going to push the bluetooth
pairing button now both of those cues the entire device does shake so it's got a decent amount of
bass for somebody who's not an audiophile like myself it's it's pretty good now what we're
gonna do next is we are going to pair this to my phone which I'll bring in to screen now which is
the Google pixel - so good give you a good idea what the size of this is but we also want to play
some music because well guess what yeah you talk about the size what it does the ruggedness of
it but it's worthless if you don't do sound so we're gonna do that right now alright so we're
gonna turn the device on and it will pair to my phone which has Bluetooth on I will say it uses
bluetooth 4.1 which is a little odd because I figured the device would have had bluetooth
thought but it's an older device so I can kinda see that I was just hoping for a little better but
we're gonna power it on and listen to it pair up and I will switch it around this way because you
did notice that there is a flashing light there on the front when it's in pairing mode and when
it actually connects so you saw a boot up flashes when it's actually connected that will show white
I will say this when the battery reaches 10 percent it will disconnect itself from Bluetooth
and this here will be flashing red and when you charge it it just stays a steady red and then when
it's fully charged the light just goes out all together so I kind of didn't notice it because
well the way I have this set up in my bathroom see the blinking light so I had to use my phone
but if you have this on your backpack you will notice that so as promised let's try listening
to some what I'm hoping is royalty-free music that I have set up so we'll get flagged when I do this
it's the life we chose but I don't want to do this inning hopefully that came out well I'm
hoping my might kind of pick that up and it was a variety of different types of music so again as I
said when that bass was really going I could feel this shaking on the table so it does have enough
punch for somebody like myself if you're a super audiophile you might find fault with that but for
your everyday user this is going to be perfect now in the box aside from the JBL clip 3 here you also
get a USB to microUSB cable fashionably orange so you don't lose it anywhere which is nice but
you can use any cable that you want to charge it it does also include an auto power off feature so
you don't have to worry about if you forget to turn this off after a while it will just power
itself down and you get to save battery that way now it's not all sunshine and rainbows with this
for me I didn't notice it because I don't have any other JBL products but this does not support
JBL connect which means you can't string a bunch of these together and have like your own little
entertainment system so for me again this is the only JBL product I have so did not come up as a
problem for me now the other thing that may be a deterrent is the price depending on where you get
this it can be anywhere from $70 to $40 if you can find it on sale I picked this up on a Black Friday
sale for $40 for me forty to fifty dollars for this I I can I can do that because this is a great
portable speaker that you do not have to worry about if it gets wet and grants it a nice pair of
headphones is great but if you want to share your music or if you just want to be more situationally
aware and don't want to have headphones on something like this is invaluable and
yes again I just use this to play podcasts in my shower but for you who might go outside more than
I do and you want to take your music with you the JBL clip 3 portable waterproof wireless bluetooth
speaker is is a great recommendation I would recommend this to my friends especially if you
can get it between that 50 to $40 range it's it's a no-brainer that the clip just makes it so much
easier to take with you on your person so I have been wanderer001 what if you have any questions
or comments please feel free to leave them in the area but and as always thanks for watching