Anker Soundcore mini, Super-Portable Bluetooth Speaker with 15-Hour Playtime, 66-Foot Range, Wireless with Enhanced Bass, Noise-Cancelling Microphone, for Outdoor, Travel, Home

Purchased to hide up the chimney to play santa bell sounds, for some Christmas magic for the children. It’s really cheap, really good and easy to use. Sounds decent when playing music and I think this will be well used in the summer to take outdoors. Can be used plugged in, or portable. Controls are easy to see and use and was really easy to pair via bluetooth.

The media could not be loaded. This neat, compact, yet sturdy speaker exceeded my expectations. It connects easily via Bluetooth and can be in a different room without issue. It makes music from my phone sound so much louder and far less tinny than the phone alone. I use it to play classical arrangements as accompaniment to me playing the cello. The volume is really quite big! It can be controlled from your other device or with the buttons on the speaker itself. My video was taken on my cheap android phone, so may not actually do the speaker justice but I am very pleased with it. The charge lasts for absolutely ages, I have only charged it twice in a few months of using it 2-3 times a week for a couple of hours at a time and it didn't really need charging then anyway. My phone tells me how much percentage battery life is left for the speaker. Great value for money.

Small and mighty. Everything works as it should. The big surprise is the quality of the sound and the volume, amazing for such a tiny device at such a tiny price..

Purchased for our daughters small party to have some background sounds. I selected this one because I've had a few Anker products before and have been impressed with their quality.I like it has an SD card slot, an Aux port (because I'm old school) as well as Bluetooth of course.The FM radio is a bit of a Brucie bonus too.Only a charging cable supplied, which is also needed for the FM antenna. No aux 3.5mm cable in the box so you will need to supply your own.Bluetooth connected fine on my Android though I have not tested distance since we would normally have the phone fairly close to the speaker anyway.Figuring it out control wise is pretty straight forward and thus far it has been working very well.The sound quality is actually lovely!I am very, very impressed. I am not an audio buff as such but I like good quality sounds and I am happy to admit this surpassed my expectations. The highs and mids are, to me, clear and well presented.The bass is really a surprise too. That passive radiator is really doing its job here and punching well above what the size looks like it could deliver.Even at max volume it copes very well and you can feel vibrations helping that bass frequency out.Speaking of size, it is smaller than I expected but being made from metal it has a great quality feel to it.Downsides, I wish this could have been a bit louder. I admit it is only 5 watts and perhaps I was asking a lot but even with my devices at max volume and the Soundcore mini at max I can tell in a noisy environment it will struggle to be heard.That being said, you have to appreciate the use case - it is a small portable speaker, not a party machine for a hall!The other downside is the Soundcore app which has been suggested to use. Sadly, when I tested this the Soundcore Mini was not supported. So a useless app. Anker must have removed this devices from their list of supported devices.Also, it asks for your to setup an account and enable location services which seems too intrusive really. Thankfully you can navigate past these - but I just wanted an app to play with the sound quality etc and it no longer works.So overall a star off for this but considering the price and the quality of sound I can not give it a strong 4 stars.Might opt for their larger boom series next!

I bought this speaker just to use in the garden over Summer but I use it everywhere now, I love it!! It is small but definitely holds its own alongside more expensive brands. The build quality and style is impressive at this price point. The instructions are easy to follow and I was able to connect my iPhone via Bluetooth in seconds (you can also connect laptops etc via the Aux port or insert you own SD card but I haven’t tried those yet). The speaker is very portable and we regularly move it around the house or out into the garden. The sound quality is amazing, very clear with no distortion. The volume range is perfect for a bit of background noise or party tunes and can be easily adjusted by the controls on the front. The mode button switches the speaker to the built in radio feature. Setting up the radio is straight forward, auto scan tuned in a good selection of local and national stations with good reception.It holds its charge with no issues, the longest I have used it on full charge is 10 hrs before I turned it off so the 15+ hours in the description sounds realistic.I’d definitely recommend this speaker, it’s been one of my best purchases.