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Review on πŸ”Š Altec Lansing IMW478s Mini LifeJacket 3 Portable Bluetooth Speaker (Black) by Bill Kodba

Revainrating 4 out of 5

Pretty good - some sound issues with audiobooks

It takes time to fully charge, but the charge lasts for a while, so it is balanced. Sounds good to me and I love that I can actually use it to charge other devices. The waterproofing works fine, have dipped it in the pool a couple of times to try with no problems. UPDATE: This works really well with music and podcasts, but I've had a lot of issues with audiobooks. What happens is that during a book the speaker skips the first word of a sentence, paragraph or chapter. Now this doesn't happen with all audiobooks and I've tested the same audiobooks with different Bluetooth speakers and I don't get the problem. So I'm 90% sure it's a speaker. I contacted support regarding this and they were very helpful. They offered to replace my speaker so I sent it in for free which was great of them and they even sent me a newer model. On the other hand, it took a month to return the speaker and the new speaker has the same problem as the old one. Taking this a step further, while waiting for my return package, I went to the store and bought a second speaker to use because I listen all day at work and while driving. I started a new dialogue with the support team, explaining in detail what was going on and telling them about some audiobooks playing without problems and some audiobooks with a skipping problem. They said again that they would replace the speaker again, but so far I haven't approached them about it due to the month I haven't had a speaker. and since the last time didn't solve the problem, i don't want to just keep bringing the speakers back. In short, if you're looking for music and podcasts you shouldn't have a problem, but if you listen to a lot of Audible it can be very frustrating. (When I have time I'll try to upload a video showing what's going on with the audio.)

Pros
  • Great price
Cons
  • The list will go on.

Comments (4)

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June 20, 2023
Pretty Good - Some Sound Issues with Audio Books
April 26, 2023
Good sound, but not well Built
February 28, 2023
Great little speaker!
December 27, 2022
Amazing! Well-worth the money.