BoomPods AQUABLASTER - Waterproof Bluetooth Portable Wireless Speaker with Amazon Alexa - Hi-Quality Sound - Awesome Listening in Shower at The Pool or The Beach (Black)

The volume and clarity are very good. I use it on my bicycle handle bar. The attaching system they include is very easy to use. I also use the Boomblaster in my garage where I work out sometimes. It easily and automatically connects to my phone's bluetooth.

So much worse than “horrible” that there are no words. Do not buy this product. DO NOT BUY THIS PRODUCT! My first concern was that I could not simply say “Alexa” to it. I need to press a button. That defeats half the purpose of being an Alexa enabled device. My next concern was when I needed to download a separate app to pair the device. But when I closed the app and tried to use the Alexa functions, it said “connection to the app is lost”. So, I have to actually keep that app open in order to be able to press a button in order to use Alexa functions? It also randomly loses connection to the app, even when I’m right next to it. Oh, and not ask Alexa functions. I press the button and ask “what time is it?”… no answer. I request a song and it doesn’t play. The sound quality is okay. I wasn’t great, but it’s still below my expectations. I wouldn’t be as concerned with this, except I’m so unbelievably disappointed with the Alexa functionality that I figured I might at well mention this, too. I’m not kidding when I say that the people who manufacture and sell this product are utterly incompetent. They do not, under any circumstances, deserve to be in business. Wow. I’ve never been so disappointed in a product that I’ve purchased. Ever. Really.

Seems like a decent little speaker, but it's a pain to connect & can't voice control Spotify. I had to watch a couple videos & call Amazon for support. Ultimately you need to download the boompods "hi)" app to connect it to alexa. Then, I was SUPER disappointed to learn that i can use it like any Bluetooth speaker, but can't voice control Spotify from the speaker. On demand, voice controlled music is played through Amazon Music. I haven't decided yet if that's a deal breaker, but that's where all of my playlists are, so I might return it for that inconvenience. Otherwise, it works, and I can play voice activated music selections in the shower, which was the whole plan.

I was looking for a stand alone waterproof echo (If your listening Amazon, I still am), this is pretty close. IT IS NOT A STAND ALONE DEVICE!!! It must utilize your phone or tablet for connectivity. This is critical. You have a Boompods app you install and open to connect to the speaker. Then once connected it can utilize the internet connection to become Alexa enabled. Thats the bad. Otherwise, this speaker is impressive. Clear highs loud bass, and a really good quality sound for a speaker at this price. Comes with lots of attachments to clip onto bags golf carts, or a suction cup for the shower. Considering another for my golf bag!

Love the product, however..if you are looking to attach an aux cord from the aquablaster to a device it does not work. At least I haven’t figured out how to make it work. More detailed directions on the manual would be helpful.

I have only had a few chances to use this so far and it seems to be well worth it. I got it mainly to use with our swim spa, but will definitely be using it when traveling, hiking, biking and at the beach or lake. Sound quality is great. Seems to be pretty durable.

Worked perfectly for 2 days. On the 3rd day, it does not respond properly. I cannot listen to q song because it continously skips every 10 seconds. Also it has been turning itself on in the middle of the night. In am writing this review because I was woken up to it saying "PAIRING" in the middle of the night. I bought this as a gift in april as a gift and we are finally using it now so its too late to return. Very disappointed. Worked perfectly and now its acting like its being controlled by a ghost and completely useless.

I received this device for Christmas and after watching the marketing videos, I was convinced that the AquaBlaster would be perfect for me. After 2 weeks of trying to get it to work as advertised, I am returning it today. Here's what I have uncovered : 1) The directions that are packaged with the device are horrible. Included in the packaging is a little brochure in 6 languages that talks about the warrantee. And there's a small card that points you to a website to get more information on the device. I expected the website to instruct me how to get the speaker online. The website talked to me in round about terms as if I had months of experience with the device. Bottom line, the website was completely useless. I went to YouTube looking for help but all that was there was marketing videos. Not helpful. I finally did enough digging on the Internet along with using some logic to figure out how to get the device online (which I finally did). Once online, I got it to work once. On a scale of 1 - 10, the sound form the speaker was a 7. Not bad...not great. 2) I did contact the AquaBlaster help desk for pointers on how to get the device online and they (Frankie) responded within a day with website pointers for me. That was terrific response time. But, I had already figured out how to get the device online by the time my EMAIL was replied to. So, I never went to the websites that I was pointed to. But, Frankie did respond quickly which I appreciated. 3) The next time I used the device, I turned it on and voice prompts instructed me that the device was paring and that it was connected. When I hit the HI button to request music, a voice prompt informed me that 'the connection to the app was lost'. WHAT the heck does that mean? After playing around and doing more research...I contacted the AquaBlaster help desk again via EMAIL. Frankie got back to me telling me that they found a problem with the app and I needed to download a new app. I had the app running and I was still losing my connection. I don't have time to wait for the software engineers to get this right. Come on folks. Bottom line...I spent no less than 4 hours working with this device only to have thrown up my hands after realizing that the app needs to be running independently of Alexa and the AquaBlaster. I am returning the device today. The concept is good. But, the documentation was very poor, support was OK but the integrity of the product is questionable. Good luck if you choose to purchase this device.