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Not entirely new as I am told this first launched more than eighteen months ago. However at an event specifically to showoff its larger sibling I left with one of these smaller units to review. The brand new larger unit will follow later...
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With a title like Jambox you might think it was a container to store your preserves but instead it is a device for enhancing audio...
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smarthouse.com.au Updated:
2013-11-02 00:02:20
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One of the most impressive aspects of the speaker is that very physicality of the sound. If you hold the unit in your hand as music plays or as it turns on, you feel the bass punch out in deep vibrations that make the unit feel like its punching above...
Meaty bass; Multiple Bluetooth streaming; Doubles as speakerphone and speaker...
Expensive for a small unit; Unimpressive battery life...
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channelnews.com.au Updated:
2013-11-02 00:02:20
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The Jambox by Jawbone is a small but weighty Bluetooth speaker that delivers surprisingly deep sound for its size. The initial reaction from turning the Jambox on leans towards jaw-dropping, with the stylish, rectangular unit belching out a digital ble...
Meaty bass; Multiple Bluetooth streaming; Doubles as speakerphone and speaker...
Expensive for a small unit; Unimpressive battery life...
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It’s a chunky little fella, the Jambox, and when you look at it, it’s not instantly clear what it is. Jambox is the creation of Aliph, the makers of the excellent and stylish Jawbone Bluetooth headsets, and the company’s noise-cancelling smarts come in...
Small, loud and good to look at – what’s not to like? Well, this is not a cheap gadget. The sound isn’t perfect and you could buy higher quality speakers for the same or less. What you’re paying for here is great design, superb ease of use and a nice...
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We all have something we love, but may not recommend to others. A PC Engine , minidisc player, or Right Said Fred record collection, but whatever it is the universal theme is guilty pleasure. So let me introduce you to my latest guilty pleasure: the Aliph...
Buy a Jawbone Jambox and you'll be desperate to pull it out at parties and impress your friends. The problem is they'll ask you the price and you'll feel rather silly. Ultimately the Jawbone Jambox is a hugely impressive feat of engineering with admirably...
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Tweet Pocket-lint would have to admit to being a little suspicious of the Jawbone Jambox when the postie came knocking on the door, device in hand. Part of this suspicion was to do with its size in relation to the claims of its ability to "deliver suc...
Build quality, great sound, portability...
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What you get with the Jawbone Jambox is a top-notch portable device which will bang out clear audio and serve as a handy speaker phone. The build quality is there, the design is good enough to appeal to most and it's very easy to set-up and use. The pr...
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When I was packing for a trip to Las Vegas recently, however, I threw it in my bag to try out in my hotel. The room at Caesar's Palace was the size of Wales, so it was a good test ground. And guess what? The Jawbone Jambox is wonderful – far and away the...
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Jawbone may or may not be a name familiar to APC readers, but the company has been making mobile headsets and accessories for over a decade. At first sight, their new JAMBOX looks like a little black power brick, the kind you'd use to power up your not...
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Just think… a long long time ago kids where carrying huge boom boxes on their shoulders and pumping music – some not nearly as powerful as the Jawbone Jambox – a miniature, powerful and amazing wireless speaker which is capable of 10 hours of continuous p...
Small, clean design, fantastic battery life and jawdropping sound quality...
Becomes distorted at higher sound settings, a bit on the pricey side...
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The Jambox looks stylish, with its rubber top and bottom and a grill that wraps around the front, back and sides. There are three buttons on the top and a couple of controls and ports tucked away on the side. Once it's charged you can pair it, using Bl...
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The Jambox is a small travel or desktop speaker, just 15cm long and 6cm high, yet impressively wellbuilt and feeling substantial at 350g. Its creator Jawbone is better known for stylish Bluetooth ear-sets than speakers, and there's a similar injection of...
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thestar.com.my Updated:
2016-11-24 11:19:47
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If you are looking for a wireless portable speaker that packs a punch, Aliph may have something for you. BLUE BRICK: The Jawbone Jambox is a compact Bluetooth speaker that does away with the hassle of handling wires. WE HAVE tested our share of port...
Compact and portable design; decent audio quality; long battery life; great for making conference calls.
Expensive; sound quality varies depending on music; vibrates and moves a lot.
For a lightweight and compact speaker, the Jambox is a solidly-built product that exhibits great design qualities while maintaining decent audio quality. It is a great way to complement your music listening experience on any device that doesn't have a...
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The Jawbone Jambox is a popular stand-alone Bluetooth speaker with sharp style, heavy bass, and relatively rich app environment. Audio from the jawbone Jambox is pretty solid, and especially heavy on the bass. I didn't have any issues with distortion...
If you're looking for a portable and stylish Bluetooth speaker, it's hard to go wrong with the Jambox. The app support for something like this is really impressive, and adds a ton of functionality to a prodyct that would otherwise just be a dumb audio out...
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A few years back the Bluetooth portable speaker market was a small one that mainly consisted of tiny, underpowered speakers with mediocre sound. Then along came the original Jambox by Jawbone and consumers realized it was possible to get high quality s...
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Who says Bluetooth speakers have to be boring? The $199 Jawbone Jambox bucks the trend with bold colors and big sound in a travel-friendly design. Jawbone also gives users the ability to design their own custom speaker and supplies 3D audio. Does the...
Highly customizable design, Online app support, LiveAudio mode delivers clear, rich sound, Long battery life...
Sound Quality mode produces harsh audio, Can't change tracks on speaker...
The Jawbone Jambox delivers an eye-catching design, lots of customization options and solid audio in a travel-friendly package.
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Video Review: The Jambox by Jawbone is a compact portable speaker that comes with wireless connectivity, an output capacity of 85 decibels and a sleek, sophisticated design. Matt Mira and Kevin Pereira take a look at the Jambox for Gadget Pr0n...
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Subscription streaming music service MOG has just expanded its external device support to include the Jawbone Jambox. The Jawbone Jambox is a portable, Bluetooth wireless speaker designed to deliver great sound in a super tiny package. The Jawbone Jamb...
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Jawbone has made a name for themselves based on its innovative design and the Noise Assassin algorithm used to clean up sound on its Bluetooth headsets, such as the Jawbone Era and Icon. The manufacturer has now turned its attention to the wireless spe...
On the whole, the Jawbone Jambox is a well-engineered, slickly designed speaker that actually punches well above its product category when it comes to sound quality. Unfortunately, another adjective that can be thrown in to the mix to describe it would...
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If you are looking for a wireless portable speaker that packs a punch, Aliph may have something for you. BLUE BRICK: The Jawbone Jambox is a compact Bluetooth speaker that does away with the hassle of handling wires. WE HAVE tested our share of port...
Compact and portable design; decent audio quality; long battery life; great for making conference calls.
Expensive; sound quality varies depending on music; vibrates and moves a lot.
For a lightweight and compact speaker, the Jambox is a solidly-built product that exhibits great design qualities while maintaining decent audio quality. It is a great way to complement your music listening experience on any device that doesn't have a...
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On a recent visit to an Apple store, Jawbone's JAMBOX caught my eye. Could this little dynamo offer me the sound quality and convenient size I have been looking for to fill my hotel rooms with music? The Jawbone JAMBOX is priced at $199.99, which ain't...
Great sound quality, Plays loud...
Annoying low battery messages, Directional, Expensive...
by Clint DeBoer — last modified April 25, 2011In addition to sounding great, the portability is fantastic. While staying at hotel on the coast of Africa, I took it down to the beach with me, under the palm trees. My buddies and I felt that Jack John...
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Jawbone, the makers of the most stylish and popular Bluetooth headsets around have finally come out with a wireless Bluetooth portable speaker for listening to music and what would this thing be without being a speakerphone too. All of this jammed into...
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Jawbone may or may not be a name familiar to APC readers, but the company has been making mobile headsets and accessories for over a decade. At first sight, their new JAMBOX looks like a little black power brick, the kind you'd use to power up your not...
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Pros:Amazing sound for the size 10+ hour rechargeable battery Bluetooth and audio input connectivity Built-in mic for phone calls Cons:Expensive; $199.99 It’s rather surprising that in a world inundated with mobile devices the portable speaker market h...
Amazing sound for the size, 10 hour rechargeable battery, Bluetooth and audio input connectivity, Builtin mic for phone calls...
Expensive; $199.99...
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Aliph has made top-quality mono Bluetooth headsets for years, but the company has generally stayed away from the murky world of Bluetooth stereo. That changes with the Jawbone Jambox speaker set ($199.99 direct), the company's first foray into st...
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Yet when you decide whether to actually purchase one of these tiny, rubbery, and somewhat inexpensive-looking speakers, it’s impossible to ignore what $200 can buy these days. XtremeMac’s similarly wireless, better-equipped Tango TRX can be had with c...
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You may have already gathered that we're fans of the Jawbone Jambox -- seeing as how it appears in our Holiday Gift Guide -- but does a miniature portable speaker, even one that pumps out 85 decibels, deserve a $200 price? How about that battery life? We'...
Powerful sound belies tiny sizeGood battery lifeStylish, durable design...
Mild distortionIffy as speakerphonePricey...
So if the Jambox isn't going to replace a good pair of headphones, loudspeakers or speakerphone, what good is it for you? Why, it's the perfect way to augment anything you'd share that doesn't have decent speakers of its own. Plugged into a bedroom TV, co...
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pcworld.com_techhive.com Updated:
2013-11-02 00:02:28
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A Bluetooth speaker isn't the first thing you might associate with Aliph--after all, the company is better known for its Bluetooth Jawbone headsets with superb noise reduction. Think of the Jawbone Jambox ($199 as of November 9, 2010) as an extension o...
Svelte, classy design, Fullbodied audio for music and speech...
Some mild hiss is audible to call recipients, Vocal alerts are overly loud by default...
Compact, rectangular speaker is highly portable, and produces mostly impressive, good-quality sound...
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Aliph has made top-quality mono Bluetooth headsets for years, but the company has generally stayed away from the murky world of Bluetooth stereo. That changes with the Jawbone Jambox speaker set ($199.99 direct), the company's first foray into stereo...
Solid, unique design. Easy to use. Supports apps.
Poor sound quality.
The Aliph Jawbone Jambox Bluetooth speaker's great pedigree and solid feature set can't make up for the fact that it simply sounds bad...
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Jawbone is no stranger to Bluetooth and personal audio, after all their headsets have consistently impressed reviewers – ourselves included – but according to the company the new Jawbone JAMBOX is paving the way for a new category of mobile audio. Riva...
Bluetooth speakers – like headsets – can be pretty inexpensive these days, and so manufacturers need to offer something significantly more interesting if they want to charge a premium. The Jawbone JAMBOX’s RRP of $199 is no small amount, but the payof...
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wired.com Updated:
2013-11-02 00:02:28
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Travel speakers are lot like Bluetooth headsets: Just a smaller, less-satisfying approximation of the real thing. So leave it to Jawbone to design a pocket-sized Bluetooth boombox that actually kinda rocks.Sure the headset maker knows how to create cri...
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0 feels like too much. Power/pairing light doesn't always stop flashing (spoils the calm serenity of a pitchblack room). Device beeps every single time you raise or lower the volume with the topside controls. Travel case doesn't have room for the charger...
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Aliph, better known for its Jawbone line of Bluetooth headsets (including the Icon, Prime, and EarCandy), has taken the company’s first foray into the world of Bluetooth speakers with the Jawbone Jambox. I had high expectations for the Jambox, given th...
Despite the call-volume issue, I loved the Jawbone Jambox—its look, its features, its portability, and its sound are each top-notch, and the MyTALK apps offer a nice bit of extra functionality. I would recommend the Jambox to anyone in the market for...
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The 2.0 update was fairly painless, requiring a visit to the MyTalk section of the Jawbone website and then tethering the Jambox to my Mac. From there the update took about a minute. The first few tracks I listened to -- "Myxomatosis" by Radiohead, and "I...
Binaural recordings sound great, Switching LiveAudio on and off is a snap, Jambox speaker is a mighty tyke...
LiveAudio doesn't work with all music, LiveAudio softens volume and dynamic range on some tracks, No easy way to determine if a track will benefit from LiveAudio...
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The Summer Gadget Series is presented by the Galaxy Nexus from Sprint . Android 4.0, Google Wallet and Google Play make it pure Google. Truly Unlimited data from Sprint makes it unstoppable. Check it out . Product: Jawbone JamboxPrice: $199.99 / £159.99 /...
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The Jawbone JAMBOX is my favorite audio gadget of the last year and one of my favorite gadgets in general. To put it in Aladdin-esque terms, it's cosmically powerful sound... jammed into an itty bitty box.Follow on after the break for a quick review and a...
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When I first heard about the Jawbone Jambox I was skeptical about the value of a $200 bluetooth speaker and speakerphone.After using one for the better part of three months I'm sold on the value it provides, especially considering you can often find the u...
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Knowing Jawbone and how modern their headsets are, the Jambox is no different in that aspect. The design is pretty impressive and unlike anything I've seen before. Every Jambox has its own uniquely designed speaker grille and they're color coded as well...
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androidandme.com Updated:
2014-07-30 02:27:35
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Let's start off with a poll: how many of you use that trick of cupping your hand behind your phone to slightly increase the volume? I find myself doing it just about every time I watch a YouTube video or try to listen to something without headphones. Ther...
Big sound in a tiny (and awesome) package: The JAMBOX produces amazingly big sound from a form factor smaller than a can of soda. Inside, there is a pair of proprietary acoustic drivers and a bass radiator, making for nice highs and solid lows. Aside from...
Bluetooth leaves something to be desired: While the Bluetooth performs fairly well, I most often find myself playing music over the 3.5mm audio jack. While it usually works just fine, Bluetooth pairing can sometimes take a few extra seconds or can drop of...
If you're in the market for a speaker that's as loud as it is stylish and portable, the JAMBOX is for you. If portability and style aren't at the top of your list, you might find more bang with something like a Sonos system. Either way, if you've got the...
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examiner.com Updated:
2014-11-12 07:11:25
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The device is available in black, white, blue, and grey. Most stores seem to stock the black or white ones, whereas the other colors can be found online. The Jambox is small, especially for the quality of sound it puts out. It measures around 6 inches in...
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The JawBone JamBox is one impressive device. It is a Bluetooth speaker, a speakerphone and one of the best gadgets of 2011! At $199 it isn’t inexpensive but it is a quality device that is well worth the money. Spar’s Zephyr line of speakers looks to...
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I recently found myself needing nice battery-powered wireless speakers for use with my iPhone, iPad, and Mac.Airplay is great for stationary speaker systems when you are in one place and on a Wi-Fi network. However, when you want to go to the back yard...
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The 487,000th time I caught myself cupping my hand underneath my phone's speaker so my friends could hear a YouTube video, I finally came to grips with the idea that the speakers on my phone, my tablet, and my laptop are an affront to the music I listen t...
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Although there are a number of smartphones with capable speakers (Nokia 5800/X6/N8 all come to mind), many have loudspeakers which are rather weedy if we're honest. Making podcasting listening around the house somewhat of an ear-straining experience and m...
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One of the most coveted features of any gadget of mine – smartphone, iPad, iPod touch, laptop – is the bluetooth feature. What's not to love about headphones without wires!Jawbone Jambox a rechargeable speaker that brings great sound quality in a somewhat...
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Although there are a number of smartphones with capable speakers (Nokia 5800/X6/N8 all come to mind), many have loudspeakers which are rather weedy if we're honest. Making podcasting listening around the house somewhat of an ear-straining experience and m...
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