Gadgetory

meet the Wonder broom the newest family member in Ultimate Ears line of popular Bluetooth speakers available in six color options the Wonder boom looks a lot like the ue boom two shorter fatter sibling and like that model is fully waterproof it carries a list price of $100 the idea behind this product was to create a very compact speaker that produced big sound with a good amount of bass that's what a lot of small speakers promised but the Wonder boom actually does sound very good for its small size and it's added girth helps with the low end performance alas while it floats it's not designed to play music while hanging out in your pool but at least it won't sink if it falls into the water and it has an integrated loop to attach the speaker to anything that loop can fit around sadly no carabiner is included in the box but you could pick one up for a few bucks as for buttons the ue button on the top of the speaker lets you play pause skip tracks and double up with a second wander boom speaker to augment the sound however you can't turn to under booms into left/right stereo pairs there's also no integrated microphone so no speakerphone capabilities battery life is rated at 10 hours which is decent for speaker this size it's shock-resistant and rated to be dropped from up to five feet and has an extended wireless range of up to 100 feet under the right conditions while the wonder boom does have its sound limitations for example it does distort with certain bass frequencies at higher volumes it is one of the better sounding micro Bluetooth speakers you'll come across there's among a handful of easily recommendable Bluetooth speakers hopefully it will come down in price to 75 dollars or less because the UE boom 2 is being discounted and is still the better performing speaker and JBL's flip 4 also offers stiff competition at this price point I'm David Carr noise for cnet.com thanks for watching you