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Hotspot Shield service makes your internet browsing safer more secure and

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fully private click now to learn more huge

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sound which is one of those things that manufacturers claim that often makes me

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kind of I can't really do it but whatever raise an eyebrow because huge

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sound is not the same thing as good

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sound however Ultimate Ears has enough of a reput

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for sound that isn't horrible that I was like okay normally when manufacturers

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contact me they're like wow yeah we've got this Bluetooth battery powered

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speaker you guys should totally unbox it and check it out I'm kind of

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like because who cares there's so many

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of them so I tend to focus on the ones that offer something interesting like

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the Ruckus which is solar powered uh the rugged Ruckus which is solar powered and

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is like Splash resistant and drop proof and all that kind of cool stuff so with

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Ultimate Ears I was like okay I'm interested in you because you've got a

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brand name to protect here so it better not sound bad the jam box from Jawbone

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sounds bad it was one of the first ones though so I guess it can get a bit of a

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pass but let's cover the features of the Mini Boom it has a 10hour battery it's

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Bluetooth it supports for iPod iPhone iPad and pretty much anything else

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that's Bluetooth but oh branding um it's got a 50t range it obviously has a

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built-in speaker phone just like all of them do it's available in variety of

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colors I think like four or five different colors but you can see them all on the website and uh it has kind of

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a unique shape to it it's pretty rugged looking I guess it's not actually meant

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to sit like that there you go it it knows it knows what's up get it what's

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up cuz the buttons go up so speaking of the buttons you've got volume up volume

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down these are nice little tactile buttons as well as your Bluetooth

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pairing button on the side over here you've got some ultimate ear branding on

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the bottom you've got some information that's hard to read some more ultimate

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ear branding speaker Grill power switch as well as 3 1/2 mm and micro USB for

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charging there's a port there for base presumably and then the front is yet

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another speaker Grill so we got a couple colors because they have another feature

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that we've seen before but again I'm have high expectations for something

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Ultimate Ears wants you to pay $100 for and that is that you can set them up

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using the free downloadable app how many times have we heard that before a free

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downloadable app you have got to be kidding me so you can use the free downloadable app to set them up in

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Stereo mode that they're claiming actually sounds pretty darn good so

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we're going to set that up and we'll be back in just a moment oh yeah hidden away in the little compartment here is a

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micro USB cable that you can use to charge it but they do not include an AC

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adapter so you're going to have to already have one or a computer or something in order to charge it so why

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don't I just give you guys some idea of what to expect in terms of volume with

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one of my favorite alltime songs so this is at about

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70% this is where my mic is so that should give you some idea when I'm

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talking like pretty loud it's about like someone kind of yelling at you now let's

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Crank It Up so now you probably pretty much can't

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hear me over it which should give you some idea how much volume we're talking

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here they are extremely loud we definitely give the edge to them in

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terms of that and there is a fair amount of Base the only issue that I have with

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them in terms of the bass is that it can tend to overpower the mids a little bit

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and it does make the vocal sound a little bit muddy but with that said if

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the intention is to grab one of these or a couple of them and take them with the

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at to the beach with you and create as much sound as possible with as little

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actual space taken up as possible these might be pretty much the way to go so

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let's go back to the app for a minute here here we go uh MINI BOOM and let's

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go to ah yes the the settings so I was going to show this to you guys before

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shows you the battery life you can set up the speaker name EQ settings out loud

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is the loudest vocals um personally I didn't like that much but intimate

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actually is probably the best balanced one in terms of how it sounds to me can

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set up alert sounds don't forget yes you can use it as a speaker phone and all that good stuff but ah yes this is where

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things start to get interesting double up mode so you press the Bluetooth

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button twice on another one after you click Start here we go and you can

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either run them in Stereo or just run the same sounds off both of them there

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we go in order to just get more sound and it gets pretty darn loud so

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Distortion wise there's actually not much even at maximum volume which is

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quite impressive if we had Awards around here

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we'd go ahead and probably give these an editor choice of some sort because they

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sound pretty good they get Extremely Loud as advertised and the app actually

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just works it it it was it was Flawless even while music is still playing we can

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switch between double up mode single mode stereo mode without any difficulty

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I don't know if stereo mode is what I would really use it for I think it's

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more like stack them up double them up get more sound out of it and get an

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extremely pleasing and crowd-pleasing

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experience out of a very small form factor before we were so rudely

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interrupted I was going to tell you to like the video if you liked it dislike

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it if you disliked it leave a comment if your feelings were much more complicated

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than what can be expressed with a simple thumbs up and thumbs down and don't

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