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Jawbone unveils Big Jambox: bigger, louder, still wireless

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Jawbone unveils Big Jambox: bigger, louder, still wireless
Jawbone's Jambox is one of the best looking and best performing wireless hi-fi speakers, but what if it was bigger and louder? Jawbone thought exactly that – pump out even louder sound out of the speaker with the new Big Jambox.

The name is straightforward – it's a Jambox on steroids, nearly four times bigger than the original speaker, and louder. It keeps the signature simple futuristic design with a couple of tweaks, and it's up for pre-order.

Back to the basics, let's make it clear that the Big Jambox, like its nephew the Jambox, connects to audio-capable device via Bluetooth, or the standard cable affair. It handles Windows PCs and Macs, but it's most impressive feature is a battery life of nearly 15 hours. The Big Jambox doubles as a speakerphone also, so you can speak directly to it on a conference call and have everyone in the room hear loudly what your callers are saying.

Jawbone unveils Big Jambox: bigger, louder, still wireless
Now, one essential feature of the Big Jambox is its awesome design. Yves Behar, the chief creative officer at Jawbone, has iterated on the original Jambox design with some additions. The Big Jambox is now and still probably the best-looking device in its class, with stainless steel construction and not too heavy at 2.7 pounds. The new Jambox comes in Graphite Hex, White Wave and Red Dot. The new things in the design include more simplistic buttons, now with a next and previous track dedicated buttons, but what we like most is that turning the device on and off is now done by pressing a single button, not moving a slider. A little change goes a long way.

It makes no sense to dock your phone
“We are targeting the speakers that want to make you dock your phone,” Jawbone CEO and founder Hosain Rahman explained the purpose of the Big Jmabox. “It makes no sense to dock your phone, considering we are doing more and more things on the phone.”

When it comes to the sound itself, Jawbone is shipping this with its Live Audio technology that allows a 3D audio effect, great if you want to immerse yourself in a movie or song. It also gets much louder with the promise of no compromises in audio quality. If you want that deep dirty bass though, you'd only get it to some extent with the Big Jambox, due to its physical restrictions.

In either case, it's a worthy creation for the Jambox name, a speaker that Jawbone says was the number one selling speaker in the US last year. The Big Jambox is priced at $299, which might seem like a lot, but finally the decision is up to you. It should hit stores May 15th.

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Jawbone unveils Big Jambox: bigger, louder, still wireless

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1. mercorp posted on 02 May 2012, 07:31

Drooling....

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2. sinfulta posted on 02 May 2012, 13:44

I wonder how this is going to compete with the Bose Bluetooth speaker I bought almost a year ago for the same price. I also paid $299.99 for it. People are always impressed with the sound when I take it to the beach or park with it's built in nylon stand. (Keeps it protected on most important sides). I'm not sure about this JamBox, If it has equal sound... then I will keep my Bose BT Speaker so i don't have to carry something around that looks like a giant Lego. If the sound is better, I'll deal with the Lego look and sell my Bose BT speaker. But something tells me since Bose only does Audio for the most part, I have a feeling the sound is still going to be better.
Here's the link to the Speaker:
http://www.bose.com/controller?url=/shop_online/digital_music_systems/bluetooth_speakers/soundlink_wireless_speaker/index_new.jsp

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3. sinfulta posted on 02 May 2012, 13:48

Btw. I forgot to add that the Bose lasts way longer than 8hrs. Last 4th of July I was the beach literally for 14+hrs. (730ish am to find a space on the beach till about 10pm) and the music was maybe at 25-35% volume and it did not die. I think the 8hr rating is if it's closer to max volume.

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