Great sound, amazing battery life

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Bose SoundLink Color
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Alliej321's review of Bose SoundLink Color

“Great sound, amazing battery life”

★★★★☆

written by Alliej321 on 22/11/2015

The Bose Soundlink Color has been on the market for just over a year, but I purchased one only recently after trying it in a store, playing music from my phone.
There are plenty of reviews of this device elsewhere. They all say that the sound is great and I agree, but they all merely repeat the manufacturer's claim that it can play for about 8 hours on a charge. Of course, being a "Bluetooth speaker", that rating concerns "normal" use, which involves a Bluetooth connection. I suspected that, if I used its "AUX" connection instead (i.e. connecting it to my phone or other source with a standard (not supplied) cable that has a 3.5mm stereo male plug on each end), it might last longer on a charge. Did it ever!
On the first day, it had been playing (at a fairly high volume) for 15 hours and 16 minutes by the time I turned it off because I was going to bed. The next day, it played for 1h 53m before it shut down. That's a total of 17h 10m. I let it rest for the remainder of that day, charging it only in the evening. It took 4h 39m to charge, while in the off state, using a standard USB 2 port on a laptop, not the supplied charger. (The documentation says to "allow three hours for a full charge" and that "Playing the speaker while charging may increase charge time.")
On the third day, I let it play for 8h 36m, and the next day it continued playing for 11h and 36m before it shut down, of which 2h 25m was after it had issued its vocal message "Battery low. Please charge now." So that's a total of 20h 12m, over two days, on its second charge, and an average of 18h 41m per charge over four days. Granted, that's a small sample of just two charge / discharge cycles, and it surely will degrade eventually, but still… it's amazing!

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