Hands on and wires off with the MobiRock Qi-enabled wireless speaker

If you have a Lumia 920 or a Verizon branded HTC 8X, you'll want to check out the MobiRock speaker just appear this week at CES 2022. Since it comes equipped with Qi wireless charging, NFC, Bluetooth and more it should appeal to music lovers and anyone who suffers from wirephobia.

Yous've seen our impressions of the JBL PowerUp speaker a few weeks back, a solic offer that I myself use, just it does take a few quibbles that seem to be addressed by the MobiRock. The biggest complaint we've seen around the web for the JBL PowerUp (also the price) is the position of the phone when charging. Putting the phone on top of the speaker makes information technology hard to switch music or interact with the telephone while information technology's charging.

The MobiRock addresses that complaint since the phone goes onto a stand in an upright portrait position. Compared to the JBL speaker, the MobiRock is a lot bigger and has a premium feel. From what we could gather in the noisy halls of CES the MobiRock did have better audio. Hither are some highlights of the MobiRock and a video of information technology.

Play and accuse wirelessly
Wireless streaming via Bluetooth
Easy pairing via NFC
Wireless charging pad for Qi-enabled devices
1A USB-A charging port for not-Qi devices
Power/Play/Pause/Track/Volume controls
Aux-in for other devices
Premium and unique design treatments

At present, the biggest question you're asking at this betoken is price and availability. Unfortunately nosotros were only able to go one-half an answer from their PR folks. The price is withal to exist determined and available in Quarter 2 of 2022. So if y'all were hoping to get a speaker that packs Qi, NFC, and Bluetooth adequately soon – you might be meliorate off with the JBL speaker.

(I'm just going to apologize in advance for Dan's music beingness so loud in the video. Dan talks loud, so it is a attestation to these speakers what they can do if they over power his vocalisation)

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