If you travel as much as I do, you’d appreciate that being able to pack a small external speaker in your luggage is a great benefit: between my iPhone, MacBook Pro and iPad, there are lots of devices that can produce good audio, I just need something to plug into ’em.
Ideal travel speakers are tiny but somehow have great sound and good bass response and don’t require any wires at all, since space is at a premium when I’m packing. Oh, and they should weight next to nothing and look cool. I know, dream on, there are indeed some sort of compromises that I have to make.
YUBZ (which is pronounced “why you busy?”) has an interesting entrant in this market with its rather pricey Magnum bluetooth speaker because it’s also a fully functional hands-free speakerphone device for iPhones and other bluetooth cell phones.
It’s interesting. But is it worth $90? Read on…