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Philips bt 25 is a very compact slim wireless bluetooth speaker that retails for $49.99 and has built-in speakerphone capabilities hi I'm David Carr noise and the BT 2500 is one among many inexpensive mini bluetooth speakers to hit the market in the last couple of years a lot of these types of speakers have more of a canister design to them but what helps set this one apart is a relatively flat design which makes it easy to slip into a bag without taking up too much space you can stand the speaker up vertically it's really meant to be laid down flat and had the speaker fire upward like a lot of these little speakers it plays louder than its size would indicate and I like the analog volume knob which gives a speaker a slight retro look and more importantly makes it easy to raise and lower the volume that same volume knob can be found on the step-up BT 3500 which costs around $30 more as about twice the size the 3500 adds NFC tap to pair technology for devices that support it but otherwise the two speakers have identical feature sets it's hard to say which speaker I like better thought they both sounded pretty good for their size though as you'd expect the larger BT 3500 does sound slightly fuller and plays louder however I like the form factor of the smaller BT 2500 you see here these small Bluetooth speakers do have their sound limitations so you shouldn't expect the world from them particularly in the bass department but I thought both these filled speakers managed to avoid sounding harsh and we're relatively distortion-free though they clearly perform better at more modest volume levels and are really designed for casual not critical listening they also perform fairly well as a speakerphone so long as you don't want or too far away from the speaker's microphone while talking the speaker's charged via micro USB in the battery life for both the BT 2500 and BT 3500 is rated at 5 hours you'd ideally like to have a speaker rated at at least eight hours but if you don't crank the volume too much you may be able to do better than that 5 hour rating summing up these fellow speakers may not blow anybody away with their performance but I do think they sound pretty decent for what they are and they're slim form factors appealing from a portability standpoint they're also reasonably price and it helps you can find them for a few bucks less online I'm David Connolly and that's the Phyllis Petey 2500 portable Bluetooth speaker thanks for watching