Altec Lansing Speaker System

Top 5 portable iPhone speakers

18.08.10

A few weeks ago, a friend asked me to recommend a good speaker and rechargeable battery for their iPhone they could bring to a camping trip. It seemed like a simple request, but find strong recommendations proved more difficult than anticipated.

Maybe I'm just a snob sound, but to my ears, most portable speakers sound pretty bad. To be simple, it is not easy to coax the big sound of a loudspeaker system that fits in a backpack.Even with the best audio engineering cabbage can buy, when you take into account concerns about battery life, quality components, licensing fees Apple block portability, and affordable price tag, the result is almost always a sonically mediocre.

Fortunately, there are a few honorable exceptions. Here are five speakers iPhone pocket I think hit the sweet spot between sound quality and convenience mobile.

Logitech Rechargeable Speaker S715i for iPhone and iPod: review

18.08.10

Logitech owned the $149 price scale for portable iPhone+iPod stereo systems for years, until the company cut too many corners last year in attempting to trim down the price to $129, resulting in a compromised S315i just as Altec Lansing finally managed to nearly unequalled its own competing product. Here in 2010, Logitech’s new S715i attempts to put the company back into legitimate competition in the price cook-stove, and indeed fixes much of what went wrong with the previous model.

Despite the return to a $149 bonus tag, the S715i represents a better value over the S315i right off the at in that it sees the return of a (small, basic) slim control. The design of the S715i is smarter in that the volume buttons, which had inexplicably and awkwardly been on the back of its predecessor, are now on the front of the segment; no more blindly groping for them around back. And while the dock on top still cuts corners a bit by not using Apple’s system of universal docking inserts, turns out to be significantly more solid than what came before, as far as tilting the unit forward and such. And the kickstand, while simple, is plenty sturdy (even-handed be sure to remove that slippery yellow piece of tape first). These are all improvements that were easily manifest before I even turned the unit on.