The IT Nerd

I got the Veho VSS-009-360BT – 360° M4 Bluetooth Wireless Speaker in the mail yesterday from the fine people at Love Cases in the UK. It’s not a case, but a portable speaker that gives you three ways to listen to your music. One is via a MicroSD card. As long as the card is 16GB or less and your music is in WMV or MP3 format, it’s good to go. The second way is to connect an 1/8″ cable (which is included by the way) to your music player and to the speaker. The third is the most interesting. You can connect via Bluetooth. Pairing it is easy. Turn it on, flip to switch on the bottom of the speaker to Bluetooth, use your phone to find the speaker, enter the passkey of 0000, connect. One note, the passkey is not listed in the manual. So when my BlackBerry prompted for the passkey of the speaker, I just used 0000 just because it’s the most common passkey used with Bluetooth devices. A less savvy user may have difficulty with that and phone for tech support or get frustrated. They may want to add that to the manual. Other than that, the controls on the speaker are logical and simple to use.

In any case, regardless of how you connect to the speaker, what you get is audio that is pretty impressive given how small this speaker is. It’s got two 2.2 Watt speakers that really deliver great audio. I was surprised by how good it was in my living room. I didn’t test this outdoors, but you’ll likely get decent results outdoors as well. One note, it does have a lithium ion battery that gives you 5 hours of battery life when you use the 1/8″ jack, 4 hours via the MicroSD card, or 2 hours via Bluetooth. It takes 2-4 hours to charge via a supplied Mini USB cable. Also included is a carrying sock to put the speaker in as it’s an easy to pack to device that will not take up a lot of space.

Gripes? Other than the passkey being missing from the manual, I really don’t have any. The price is sure right at £24.97 which is $40 USD. Thus I would recommend the VSS-009-360BT – 360° M4 Bluetooth Wireless Speaker. It’s a very nice speaker for those who travel or need a speaker for presentations that has good audio and lots of options on how you play back your audio.

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