so the jam boox got a fair amount of flak when I did my video about it for
being expensive because it's a Bluetooth speaker that acts as doubles as a
speaker phone it's got like you know bass and treble
and all that stuff this is a less
expensive alternative this is the Twist speaker with rechargeable battery it is
basically a speaker and speaker phone plus like
base and treble and stuff so slick wants
me to get the packaging off it in a hurry because it's pretty shiny so we're
just going to undress this Bluetooth speaker in a big way and Slick's
apparently tired and wants to sit down cuz he's trying to move that like stool
over here uh so let's see what the manufacturer has to say for themselves
um sorry stick there's nothing I can do it is Wireless okay
a2dp Bluetooth for wireless music streaming with a 30 foot range it is a
speaker phone with a built-in microphone an advanced noise cancellation for
wireless speaker phone calls bold sound two speakers and one passive subwoofer
auxiliary input which is Handy rechargeable battery okay offers up to 5
hours of continuous play time now I can tell you guys right now that that is
significantly less than the jam boox however if you were paying like you know
if you were paying per minute of play time then um The Twist is still a better
deal however you also lose the size
advantage that something like the jam box has so here we have a fairly large
speaker that is actually apparently supposed to go this way not the other way and uh here we have a significantly
smaller one and just for good measure I
am going to do the iPhone comparison yay
here you should get the top down
view so now you know how big they all
are um I don't know slick wants me to do
this there you go so let's go through the pairing
process together and see just how uh
just how awesome the Twist speaker
is settings Bluetooth so probably you just
like press and hold the thing right a
it's not charged oh it's not on oh there we go okay well why don't we take an
actual look at the unit itself so we've got controls here bluetooth volume up
volume down power and like something pick up the phone play pause put down
the phone uh you've got what appears to be ah
there's your two speakers there's your passive subwoofer so it looks like this
is actually kind of empty space I don't feel a whole lot in there or maybe
there's the battery there whereas most of the business end of uh things is in
this particular twist so there's the twist there's the like not as Twisted
parts for when you put it on the table so it doesn't roll um has kind of a soft
touch feel to it kind of like bit Phoenix
cases so let's press on see what happens
here and it's not
charged dancing makes more sense when there's
music so the pairing process took a matter of like seconds even for slick
who had incidentally never paired anything over Bluetooth to his phone
before this is Slick's phone um mine's out of battery from tweeting too much
honestly we're both really impressed uh for a fraction of the price and like 1
over three is a fraction I think so for a fraction of the price the twist is
louder and clearer with better more
um more Punchy base than the jam boox by
Jawbone so uh it loses the compactness
okay so remember it is significantly bigger it loses the Uber battery life
so that's kind of a big deal to a lot of people if it was me I'd probably still
go with the jam boox assuming they were the same price um however they're not um
and I think he said there was another yep yeah I know the one uh wait no I
don't know the one well yes I do another
one so this isn't even as loud as it goes however that was as loud as we
could get it comfortably and maintain the clarity of the base it does start to
distort eventually but not like the jam boox
it's empty in the valley of your heart
the sun it rises slowly as you walk away
from all the fears and all the fults
you've oh there we go bit of a delay there um so thank you for checking out
my unboxing and first look at the Twist speaker don't forget to subscribe to
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wait one more thing and what's another thing that's great about it is that it
charges by mini not by stupid micro USB
which is is more fragile and less accessible there I have fewer micro
cables and I think most people probably do as well