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Portable Bluetooth speakers

siggy1964

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Feb 13, 2012
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My Monster Clarity HD Bluetooth has quit working. I can still use it via the 3.5mm jack but I want a wireless connection. I tried the jambox and sound matters before I got the clarity and like the clarity better. My question is do any of you have one you absolutely love at a reasonable price. I'm thinking about getting the Jabra Solemate or maybe the isound. The Bose is too big and expensive for my taste. Any other models I should look into? There are a bunch out there and would appreciate any help.
 
My gut feeling is no. I've never tried to connect to multiple BT devices at the same time so I'm only guessing. There is some wiggle room in there however. If you have two like devices there is a chance your phone would connect to the one device but both receivers might catch the stream. Interesting question.

I'm sure your phone is like mine. It will list memorized connections and you have the chance to link to one or another. There is not an option to choose multiple devices to link with. So if you could stream to multiple devices, they would have to be two of the same.

Please share if you find more information about this or can prove or disprove the theory above. I'm interested.
 
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KOLIO reports here that his bluetooth speakers and headset work simultaneously, but independently for each task, music for the speakers, phone calls to the headset.

http://androidforums.com/showthread.php?p=5681173

My rave review of the Flip is there and also a nice two-speaker setup posted by marctronixx called the Twin.
 
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I had something like that happen back when I was using my G1. I had an Axim X51v Pocket PC I was using to listen to Music from the 32GB CF card with my Bluetooth headphones when suddenly I could hear the phone ringing in the headset. I tapped the answer button and completed the call. When I hung up the music from the Axim was still playing. So the Headphones were paried with two devices and still worked. The music even paused while I was on the call. The Axim was running a Windows Mobile OS and I guess microsoft left in some phone functions even though my Axim couldn't make calls.

As to portable bluetooth speakers the best battery life I've read about is 20 hours from these handy little numbers.
 
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