Amazon Australia has just announced a Father’s Day sale until 5th September midnight on their Amazon Echo range, with their top-of-the-line Echo Plus speaker on sale for $149 ($80 off), the lowest price since Prime Day two months ago. The Echo range is powered by Amazon’s Alexa voice assistant, and the …
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Logitech’s Ultimate Ears new Megablast is indisputably the largest and loudest in their range of portable Bluetooth speakers. While it does add Alexa voice commands and charging dock functionality it also loses some of the features that are present in it’s smaller siblings the Megaboom and Boom 2. At 1.2kg …
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During the summer holidays I had the chance to test the new Bang & Olufsen (B&O) Beoplay M3 and Beoplay M5 wireless multiroom compatible speakers to judge their usability, design and audio quality. While both were good I was impressed with one speaker enough to place an order for it, …
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Australian B&O PLAY fans can now add a new member to their wireless home speaker family with the Beoplay M3 available for purchase today. If you’ve been scared off previously by the premium pricing of Beoplay speakers like the M5 ($849) then at $449 RRP the M3 may just tempt …
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Bose launched their tiny new SoundLink Micro Bluetooth speaker at a Sydney event attended by Ausdroid just recently. The SoundLink Micro target market is people who want to listen to music while out and about while being active. Sturdiness Of course I had to try it playing music in a …
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There are currently no smart speakers powered by Amazon’s Alexa smart assistant on-sale here in Australia, but with an impending launch by Amazon looming, that could be about to change. Logitech Ultimate Ears (UE) currently has two Bluetooth speaker models (UE BOOM 2 and UE MEGABOOM) in Australia which support …
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The marketing photos for portable Bluetooth speakers tend to show them being used at a pool, park, packed party venue or at the beach by young good looking people. I wonder how many of them actually get used that way? My Logitech Ultimate Ears Boom 2 speaker hasn’t left home …
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B&O Play today announced the Beoplay P2, its brand new portable Bluetooth speaker, and invited us along to have a drink and a chat with them to celebrate. The Beoplay P2 is B&O Play’s smallest ever portable speaker and takes its design inspiration from a smooth pebble thats pleasant to …
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Philips has announced that their latest high-end sound bar the HTL5160B (catchy name!) is coming to Australia with Google Cast in tow. The Dolby Digital 3.1 sound system will retain for $699.95 AUD RRP. The speaker has more that GoogleCast going for it. For those into the specs of home …
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LG have announced the Freestyler, an all in one sound system that pumps an eardrum bursting 600W RMS through dual 8″ woofers and intended to be the life of your parties. The new device replaces a number of the functions that users would be familiar with in the Music Flow …
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Portable Bluetooth speaker systems are all the rage at the moment, with companies releasing many variations on the theme, but today Bose have taken a jab at their opposition in the mobile Bluetooth speaker market today with the release of the SoundLink Mini Bluetooth speaker II. For users who enjoy …
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Braven offers a distinctive line of Bluetooth speakers designed for a number of situations. Judging by their website, many of them seem ruggedised or weatherproofed in some way, and being standard Bluetooth devices they’re all Android compatible. We’ve been given a Braven 710 to review, and like what we’ve seen …
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