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Philips BT 3500 is a compact slim wireless Bluetooth speaker that retails for $79.99 and has a built-in speakerphone hi I'm David Carr noise and the BT 3500 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 its 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 propped up at a slight angle using the integrated flip out kickstand it does play louder than its size would indicate and I like the analog volume knob which gives the speaker a slight retro look and more importantly makes it easy to raise and lower the volume that same volume knob can be found in the step-down BT 2500 which costs around $30 less and is about half the size the 3500 you see here 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 I 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 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 Philips speakers managed to avoid sounding harsh we're relatively distortion-free that they clearly perform better at more modest volume levels and are really designed for a casual not critical listening they also perform fairly well as a speakerphone so long as you don't wander too far away from the speaker's microphone while talking the speaker charged via microUSB and the battery life for both the BT 2500 and 3500 is rated at five hours you died ely like to see a speaker rated at least eight hours if you don't crank the volume too much you may be able to do better than that 5 hour rating summing up these Phill speakers may not blow anybody away with their performance but I think they do sound pretty decent for what they are and they're slim form factor is appealing from a portability standpoint they're also reasonably priced and helps you can find them for view bucks less online I'm David Connelly and that's the phillips ET 3500 portable bluetooth speaker thanks for watching