Posts Tagged ‘Review’
Written on May 18th, 2013 by iPod Bloggerno shouts
We measured BlueFlame’s cable at just short of two meters from end to end, or right around six and a half feet long. For almost any household use it’s plenty, allowing you to to not have to be tethered to the wall or a computer. Despite the added length, charging speeds aren’t slowed at all. Instead of a standard rubber-coated cable, the company used a tangle-resistant grey fabric. It’s quite sturdy, and certainly nice looking.…
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Written on May 16th, 2013 by iPod Bloggerno shouts
Measuring roughly 8.6” wide by 3” deep by 2.8” tall with the handle recessed—notably larger than suggested on HMDX’s web site—Jam Party looks somewhat like a giant, colorful stick of butter from the front, only revealing gently trapezoidal tapering when viewed from the side. Coated in soft touch rubber that’s slightly metallic except in the aforementioned black zones, the speaker has a control panel on the…
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Written on May 9th, 2013 by iPod Bloggerno shouts
Hue, an accessory available exclusively in Apple stores and from Apple’s website, comes in the Starter Pack with three bulbs and a wireless bridge, while additional bulbs are available for $60 each. Also in the box are a power supply for the bridge, and an Ethernet cable to connect it to your router. Each of the bulbs is an 8.5-Watt light and puts out 600 lumens, which is roughly comparable to a traditional 50-Watt lightbulb. The capsule-shaped…
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Written on May 7th, 2013 by iPod Bloggerno shouts
FabricSkin’s exterior, at least on the black version we received for review, is listed as “matt leather.” The matte material is actually faux leather that feels like soft-touch rubber, while other colors come in other fabrics, such as cotton. The smooth, soft material wraps around the back of the case to the front, and while it won’t be mistaken for real cowhide under any circumstances, it’s still nice. Other than a hole…
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Written on May 6th, 2013 by iPod Bloggerno shouts
Originally announced as a Kickstarter campaign, Zooka ($100) is the latest tube-shaped speaker, and it’s of the horizontal variety, a choice that enabled developer Carbon Audio to include a couple of nifty features not found in vertical rivals. First is the addition of an iPad stand, which Carbon created by extending the tube with two finger-like hard rubber pinchers that can grasp bare iPads and iPad minis—sadly, not encased ones—plus…
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Written on May 4th, 2013 by iPod Bloggerno shouts
At the 2013 CES, Braven debuted a proper sequel called BRV-1 ($180), and though it hasn’t eliminated 625s from the lineup, it’s clearly positioned as a possible replacement—for some users, at least. BRV-1 measures 4.75” wide by 2.5” tall by 3.3” deep, which is to say that it’s considerably narrower and a little shorter than the 6.3” by 2.6” by 1.8” 625s, but nearly twice as deep. Part of…
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Written on May 1st, 2013 by iPod Bloggerno shouts
iHome had a mostly winning chassis with the iD50, so it hasn’t changed much for iDL45: the shape remains an extruded rounded rectangle modified with a slanted front face, such that a larger base tapers upwards to a modestly smaller top surface. Fabric still covers the front speakers, matte black plastic is used for almost all of the rest of the body, and metallic side accents give the design extra character. On iD50, the sides were bright silver…
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Written on April 29th, 2013 by iPod Bloggerno shouts
SuperTooth has made several changes to the Disco Twin speaker package. Each of the Disco Twin speakers looks nearly identical to a single Disco 2 unit: a plastic and fabric shape somewhat like an exclamation point—a boxy hourglass with dimples closer to the bottom than the middle. However, while Disco 2 was jet black, Disco Twin’s top and bottom instead use gunmetal metallic plastic, interrupted with the same six black top buttons and…
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