Bose's latest Bluetooth speaker is the rugged SoundLink Flex for $150

(Pocket-lint) - Bose is introducing a caller portable Bluetooth speaker you tin instrumentality to the excavation oregon connected adventures: The $149 SoundLink Flex.

Featuring a rugged, compact plan implicit with an IP67 standing for particulate and h2o absorption arsenic good arsenic a inferior loop for attaching to a carabiner, the SoundLink Flex is 7.9 inches wide, 3.6 inches high, and 2.1 inches deep, and it weighs conscionable implicit a pound. The speaker, which is deemed harmless for pools, has a silicone backmost and alloy grille that tin defy corrosion. Bose said it adjacent floats to the aboveground erstwhile dropped into water.

Other features see a 12-hour artillery beingness and a customized transducer inside, which Bose said results successful "bass that you tin consciousness successful your chest". It besides offers what Bose has dubbed PositionIQ. Basically, with it, the talker tin observe whether it's hanging oregon connected its backmost and tin set its audio output to suit. 

There’s besides a mic for calls and talking to the dependable adjunct connected your phone.

The SoundLink is disposable present successful black, fume white, and bluish colours. It's meant to rival Bluetooth talker contention from the likes of JBL and UE.

Writing by Maggie Tillman. Originally published connected 13 October 2021.