Need a last minute Christmas gift idea? Check out my review for the Darkiron
Bluetooth Speaker!
Bluetooth Speaker!
This outdoor speaker by Darkiron weighs approximately 23
ounces, and comes in a rectangular, cardboard box, which measures,
approximately, 7.5 inches long, by 4.25 inches wide, by 3 inches tall.
The speaker itself is approximately the size of a brick. I find this size to be perfect for most uses, since it's not too small, and not too big.
The
speaker comes taped into a white, plastic bag, covered and surrounded
by black or dark gray, foam padding, resting on a cardboard compartment
which encloses the following accessories:
a business card
a palm-sized instruction manual
a metal D-ring (approximately 1 inch by 2 inches)
a black audio cable (approximately 2 feet long)
a black USB/microUSB cable (approximately 2 feet long)
The
first ten pages of the instruction manual, printed in orange and black
on white, are in English. Pages 11 through 19 are in German. I found
it unnecessary to refer to the manual to connect this speaker, via the
audio cable, to my laptop and listen to the sound effects while playing a
video game. It was also unnecessary to refer to the manual to connect
this speaker to my Samsung J3/16 (Android) smart phone, via Bluetooth
technology, and listen to the sound effects while playing a game on the
smart phone.
The
speaker is ruggedized, for outdoor use, with a rubber loop, at one
corner, for dangling it from something by the D-ring while in motion.
It is also designed to stand on any of it four, rubbery, green edges.
Speaker screens fill the surfaces on the front and back of the brick.
On
the top edge of the speaker, indicated by the DARKIRON logo on its
face, there are the following manual controls, molded into the rubbery
edge:
phone
back
play/pause
forward
M (apparently for "Mode")
The backward and forward buttons can be used to increase and decrease the volume.
Near
these manual control are three lights. Apparently, the Bluetooth light
is not labeled. Another light is labeled with a battery icon, and the
third is label "MIC," to indicate, apparently, if a microphone is
connected.
There are
input and output connectors and controls on what the manual refers to as
the bottom of the speaker, which is actually the left end of it (to the
right as you face the "DARKIRON" logo), as follows:
AUX (for the audio cable)
TF (for TransFlash cards)
microUSB, 5 Volt Direct Current in
USB (Universal Serial Bus) out
On/Off switch
A
rubber panel matching the edge of the speaker, labeled "OPEN," fits
snugly over the "bottom" of the speaker, and dangles by a strip of
rubber when removed.
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