I.SOUND Twist Speaker Bluetooth Speaker and Speakerphone Unboxing & First Look Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2013-05-07
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886 words · ~4 min read
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so the jam boox got a fair amount of flak when I did my video about it for
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being expensive because it's a Bluetooth speaker that acts as doubles as a
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speaker phone it's got like you know bass and treble
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and all that stuff this is a less
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expensive alternative this is the Twist speaker with rechargeable battery it is
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basically a speaker and speaker phone plus like
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base and treble and stuff so slick wants
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me to get the packaging off it in a hurry because it's pretty shiny so we're
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just going to undress this Bluetooth speaker in a big way and Slick's
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apparently tired and wants to sit down cuz he's trying to move that like stool
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over here uh so let's see what the manufacturer has to say for themselves
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um sorry stick there's nothing I can do it is Wireless okay
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a2dp Bluetooth for wireless music streaming with a 30 foot range it is a
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speaker phone with a built-in microphone an advanced noise cancellation for
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wireless speaker phone calls bold sound two speakers and one passive subwoofer
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auxiliary input which is Handy rechargeable battery okay offers up to 5
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hours of continuous play time now I can tell you guys right now that that is
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significantly less than the jam boox however if you were paying like you know
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if you were paying per minute of play time then um The Twist is still a better
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deal however you also lose the size
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advantage that something like the jam box has so here we have a fairly large
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speaker that is actually apparently supposed to go this way not the other way and uh here we have a significantly
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smaller one and just for good measure I
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am going to do the iPhone comparison yay
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here you should get the top down
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view so now you know how big they all
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are um I don't know slick wants me to do
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this there you go so let's go through the pairing
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process together and see just how uh
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just how awesome the Twist speaker
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is settings Bluetooth so probably you just
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like press and hold the thing right a
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it's not charged oh it's not on oh there we go okay well why don't we take an
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actual look at the unit itself so we've got controls here bluetooth volume up
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volume down power and like something pick up the phone play pause put down
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the phone uh you've got what appears to be ah
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there's your two speakers there's your passive subwoofer so it looks like this
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is actually kind of empty space I don't feel a whole lot in there or maybe
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there's the battery there whereas most of the business end of uh things is in
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this particular twist so there's the twist there's the like not as Twisted
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parts for when you put it on the table so it doesn't roll um has kind of a soft
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touch feel to it kind of like bit Phoenix
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cases so let's press on see what happens
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here and it's not
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charged dancing makes more sense when there's
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music so the pairing process took a matter of like seconds even for slick
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who had incidentally never paired anything over Bluetooth to his phone
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before this is Slick's phone um mine's out of battery from tweeting too much
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honestly we're both really impressed uh for a fraction of the price and like 1
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over three is a fraction I think so for a fraction of the price the twist is
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louder and clearer with better more
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um more Punchy base than the jam boox by
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Jawbone so uh it loses the compactness
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okay so remember it is significantly bigger it loses the Uber battery life
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so that's kind of a big deal to a lot of people if it was me I'd probably still
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go with the jam boox assuming they were the same price um however they're not um
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and I think he said there was another yep yeah I know the one uh wait no I
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don't know the one well yes I do another
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one so this isn't even as loud as it goes however that was as loud as we
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could get it comfortably and maintain the clarity of the base it does start to
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distort eventually but not like the jam boox
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it's empty in the valley of your heart
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the sun it rises slowly as you walk away
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from all the fears and all the fults
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you've oh there we go bit of a delay there um so thank you for checking out
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my unboxing and first look at the Twist speaker don't forget to subscribe to
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Linus techtips for more unboxings reviews and other computer videos oh
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wait one more thing and what's another thing that's great about it is that it
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charges by mini not by stupid micro USB
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which is is more fragile and less accessible there I have fewer micro
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cables and I think most people probably do as well