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belon thunderstorm which they're branding as a handheld home theater and
if you check out their website they claim this is the
loudest iPad case now not the loudest
iPad Dock because obviously you can put an iPad or iPod into like any number of
massive things these days which for some reason people buy but it's inexplicable
to me but anyway docs are apparently a thing but no this is an actual iPad case
so Belin partnered up with aify to make
this particular product possible and while from what I've seen the audio
quality might not be the best thing you ever heard which makes sense because it
is extremely low profile for speakers
which have just sort of physical restraints on them in terms of you know
how much sound they can produce and how great it can be in terms of their actual
size it's uh apparently not bad either
so here is the iPad case itself this
particular one is designed for iPads gen 1 and Gen 2 and they do have a separate
option for other more different iPads so the way your iPad fits in I actually
happen to have this has been missing for a while I
just found my iPad so I'm like super stoked on that so I'm going to go ahead
and take it out of its existing case which is just a Slimline case that does
not have speakers so it is definitely quieter
than this one so all you do is throw the iPad in there don't throw gently place
then lock it in place with the dock connector down there so now it's oh you
know what I don't think I got it quite in hold on just okay well let's find out
how to pull it out then there you go so you just pull in it and then you try
again ah now it's in there so you just got to get it under the lip here so the
iPad should be reasonably well protected so there's kind of a smart covery
looking cover on it they've got apparently some information for the user
something about an FCC statement in IND industry Canada and whatnot and whatever
oh look at that they have instructions for this so there's instructions on the back that tell you everything that I
just told you you can download an app the Thunder app lets you select the
optimum audio setting maybe we should do that we'll be back in a moment all right
so we installed the app which promptly prompted us to update the firmware
actually of the device itself so the app does not too much basically
what it allows you to do is change the stereo separation so they have suggested
settings for Games music movies and voice chat and then it also allows you
to preview your settings with a built-in audio clip so they actually use sort of
airports throughout the device I shouldn't say airports like like ports
for air not like you know like planes and stuff like
that not airports but uh that's basically what allows it to achieve it
Basin and it's not bad audio quality let
me put it this way is as good or better
than those little like you know Bluetooth speakers you can get like the
jam box it destroys the jam box I can say that much I'm not a big fan of the
jam box by Jawbone uh but something like an antech sp1 I'd say it's probably
similar maybe even a touch louder than the sp1 and something I didn't cover yet
before is that the way that this folds gives you the option to have a couple of
different angles for it so you can fold it like that or you can fold it like
that and it can sort of sit in various different ways depending on what you
prefer so let's go ahead and play
it so that's maximum volume and I'm talking what I'd consider to be sort of
a louder than normal speaking voice which should give you some idea how loud
this thing is and uh yeah like I said okay audio quality not perfect but is it
more practical if you use your iPad for watching movies and listening to music
at the beach or whatever else very very frequently than something like a
Bluetooth speaker Perhaps it is bulky so
you're taking something that is Sleek and slim like the iPad and you're
turning it into a bit of a brick you do have to remember to charge it however
should be noted that you don't have to keep it open all the time so this is something I didn't notice before but the
speaker kind of pokes through the front cover here and it will at as well it
will if nothing else also keep your iPad from getting damaged so it's quite thick
on the back so that's sort of the flip side of that accessing the headphone
Port looks like it's going to be a bit of a challenge if your headphones use a
right angle connector however if they use a straight connector you should be fine you charge it here the lock button
is here your other more different rotation lock buttons here volume up and
down is there and then you can looks like you're actually going to have to
pop it out in order to access the dot connector so this is more like the kind
of thing that you'd keep in your beach bag and throw your iPad in when it's the
appropriate time this also disconnects magnetically as you would expect if
you're a smart cover user which I am not so I was not expecting that if you liked
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