By Emma Boyle
“If you’re looking for Alexa, she’s in the bath with me” is not a sentence we ever pictured ourselves uttering but it’s actually become surprisingly common since we started reviewing the new Ultimate Ears Megablast.
Ultimate Ears is a brand known for its excellent and sturdy Bluetooth speakers and with its new Megablast it’s thrown Amazon’s Alexa smart assistant into the mix.
With the Megablast you get the 360 degree sound, portability and durability of the excellent UE Boom speaker with the smarts of an Echo. It’s a marriage made in speaker heaven.
Design
It makes a lot of sense to combine a Bluetooth speaker with a smart home speaker – it takes away the need to have two devices where one could do. And if we could have had one brand make it happen it would certainly have been Ultimate Ears.
As far as design is concerned, the Megablast looks good. Yes it’s chunky, but its tall cylindrical shape means it looks simultaneously robust and neat. You wouldn’t fly into a panic if it fell from its table – this is a speaker that can handle itself.
It’s also nice to see a smart home speaker in colors that aren’t black or white …read more
Source:: techradar.com – PC and Mac
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