welcome to my unboxing and first look at something that's actually kind of
interesting this is the Eon Ruckus solar
portable Bluetooth sound system with solar
panel so if you guys ever saw the
episodes I did about the jam boox by
Jawbone you'll have some idea what this
thing is however the solar panel is what turns
this from a product that's sort of um
mildly interesting to something that is
far more mildly interesting so far more
interesting let's put it that way so it comes with a coupon for hold up okay
your new iton okay I don't know how to pronounce that rockas can only get
better with 3 months of free music with access toog get 15 million songs at your
fingertips download unlimited songs to your mobile device jam out to new Rel
releases and custom radio with artist only stations hear music everywhere cool
so comes with a 3mon uh 3mon voucher very neat stuff okay it also comes with
a power adapter presumably for charging if you are not near the sun which is
everywhere except at night
whoo whoa okay let's have a look at this
device I actually don't know that much about this other other than that it's
solar powered which sort of makes it inherently really cool to me I'm I'm I'm
big into things that I don't have to buy batteries for or deal with charging
because like many gamers and PC sort of
types and hopefully you guys can relate with me here and I'm not just being
insulting I'm pretty freaking lazy when
it comes to charging devices like I just I can't be bothered to do that every
device should just automatically recharge itself when I'm done using the
battery so there we go all right NE need form
factor okay so number one Bluetooth connectivity with one touch pairing and
control okay high quality stereo streaming support that's good play music
from Bluetooth enabled smartphone tablet laptop or PC comes with a little pocket
for throwing your uh your device into it so you know hopefully it won't I guess
hopefully it won't fall out I oh oh look
how smart this is look at look look look look this so there's a slight curvature
to the device here and this sticker actually adds some friction to it so
once you throw your phone in there the odds of it falling out okay
there there it goes but even then it's going to bump up against the handle so
you're actually supposed to carry it like this so that you won't run into
problems with it falling out but either way that's awesome you don't actually
have to pH no way so it doesn't include a USB cable unfortunately but if you
flip this around you can use the included USB plug right here to actually
charge your device device at the same time that you're using it so that's
that's kind of smart too it's got an auxiliary in so even if you don't have bluetooth support with the device that
you want to listen to music on or whatever else you can just use an um you
can just use a 3.5 mm cable which is good stuff and then there's the power in
so that's sort of the the ergonomics of the back of it the top is pretty
straightforward it's covered in solar panels what were you expecting
guys okay no I know that's what you were expecting so we've got a power button uh
he has an e in to display which is kind of
cool there's a button for Bluetooth button for
USB uh this will switch to your auxiliary there's base there's volume up
volume down so the controls are pretty straightforward looks like it's on so you know what the only thing to do right
now is uh try this thing out so give me a sec here guys and I'll I'll get this
going okay so I'm not a dancer but the
point is I've heard air number of these sort of Bluetooth speaker things this
one has the advantage of being a little bit bigger than the twist that we looked
at before as well as the jam boox however I can say with confidence that
it takes advantage of its larger size it delivers significantly more base it's
not super loud this is not the kind of device that you're going to take to the
beach and drive everyone else around you crazy with like you know how awesome and
Loud your Beats are or whatever else it's not like that it's very directional
sound which means that if you got your group on the sand or whatever you
position it a little bit away from yourselves and point it at yourselves
you're going to be able to hear it really well whereas the people around you are probably not going to be that
bothered pairing was quick so we were able to pair just by holding down the
Bluetooth button it's detected we pair it up no big deal I couldn't quite
figure out how the base control worked but the eink display is awesome so you
can actually see right here it's very very clear and because it's in it's
extremely power efficient um okay that
probably turns the USB charging on and off so that's kind of cool and then
that's going to again switch to your auxiliary versus your Bluetooth playback
and again I'm not I'm not quite sure how this works but the volume up and down
works and it's semi-independent from your volume control on your phone so a
lot of the time these Bluetooth devices will SN so you're controlling both of
their volumes at the same time this seems to be somewhat separate uh you get
up to eight plus hours of battery life according to them so in terms of music
playback time and charges fully in less than 6 hours indirect sunlight so so
overall very cool little device actually
let me just make sure I'm not missing anything before we uh before we wrap up
here I think that pretty much covers it so in conclusion not super loud super
easy to use it's not that heavy so it's something you can easily Chuck into you
know your bag or whatever else you know it's not going to be that heavy the bottom is rubberized so it's not going
to slip if you put it down on anything however 90% of the time you're probably
going to be using it like this it's got rubberized feet there as well so it can
be used either way and if feels pretty robust like it's not going to break
immediately or anything like that thank you for checking out this unboxing and
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