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hey everybody I'm Chris look as a musician and a fan of all things music there are a few possessions I treasure more than my home stereo I love it the thing is when you're on the go you can't just pack up your stereo and take it with you sure you can use headphones but sometimes you just want to kick back relax and fill the room with sound that's where the Bose Soundlink mini comes in as you can see it's a little guy but the sound that comes out of it is huge the thing is is it work the hefty price tag let's find out opening off the box the first thing you'll see is the Bose Soundlink mini speaker itself and the charging cradle and finally the wall charger aside from the manual that's about it the Bose Soundlink mini connects to your music playing device in one of two ways first you can connect via bluetooth every time I paired my phone with the Soundlink mini was super simple and it was only one time that I had to bother with pressing the Bluetooth button on top of the speaker Bose claims a bluetooth range of up to about 30 feet and am i testing I was able to easily continue playing music from around 20 feet away and that was with two walls between me and the sound link if you don't want to or can't use bluetooth you can also just use the eighth inch auxiliary jack located on the right side of the speaker just over the power connector there isn't too much to say here just plug it in and there you go this probably isn't a feature a lot of people will use but it's still nice to have one thing worth mentioning is that the Soundlink mini can't be used with speaker phone I honestly can't think of a single time in my life where I've ever wanted to use speaker phone with a Bluetooth speaker but if that feature is important to you you may have to look at another product bose claims the Soundlink mini gets about seven hours of battery life which is almost exactly dead-on with how I found the battery life assuming that seven hours on one charge isn't enough it's easy to either leave the Soundlink mini on its charging cradle or just plugged into the wall if you're going to be carrying the speaker around with you quite a bit I recommend using the cradle well if you're pretty much leaving the Soundlink on your desk all the time for example you might want to just leave it plugged in because the grip on the bottom of the speaker will keep it in place better than the charging cradle will when it comes to sound quality this is definitely one of the best Bluetooth speakers I've heard better in some cases than other models from Bose even for such a small package it's capable of some very big sad now you're not going to provide all the music for a party with the Soundlink mini but for a few friends or just yourself it's more than enough the high frequencies and mid range both come through loud and clear bright and crisp but not overly so unfortunately the bass doesn't hold up quite as well it can't really because of the sound link may need small size don't get me wrong this is Farb a seer than most bluetooth speakers I've encountered but you're never going to get earth-shaking low frequencies out of something so small the small size also means that you're not going to get much in the way of stereo unless you're pretty close to the speaker again the sound link does better here than most other single Bluetooth speakers but the small sides can only do so much Wow you'd probably want to hear what the Soundlink mini sounds like it really isn't possible to do this in anyway that does the speaker any justice but I'll do my best to make sure it's something you're used to I use music you might be a little familiar with overall the Bose Soundlink mini is about as good as I can imagine a speaker this size sounding and the build quality is a major plus yeah at $1.99 is on the expensive side but you're definitely getting a solid piece of tech for the money and that wraps it up for this one guys if you're looking for a few more details check out the companion article over at Android Authority comm you can find the link in the video description down below while you're there check out the social media links and you can find out how to follow me Android Authority or the Android Authority crew also if you haven't yet make sure to subscribe and while you're here why not check out some other videos once again I'm Chris look and thanks for watching