Listen up, hoodies: if your nearest and dearest are on the verge of murdering you because of your penchant for listening to music through yourmobile phone’s tinny, squealing-cat speaker, here’s a way to sort your mobile music life out.
Behold the Bluetooth beast that is the Parrot Boombox, aniPod Hi-Fi-like speaker system that blasts out tunes from your mobile,MP3 player,computerand any other gear via Bluetooth or a standard headphone jack.
Of course, it’s not portable, but it offers a handy living-room audio solution for listening to digital music from multiple sources.
We gave it a quick workout and were very impressed with the audio quality – the entire office yelled at us to turn it down.
It works as expected with the 3.5mm headphone cable provided, which plugs into any compatible gear, but we had a few teething problems with the Bluetooth connectivity.
you gotta confirm the phone or computer you want to connect it to supports the A2DP (stereo Bluetooth) profile and even though all our devices did, the sound quality played up, but Parrot told us we were sent a faulty unit.
It costs 150, which is reasonable considering the iPod Hi-Fi costs 229, and it should be out very soon.
-Andrew Lim
