BoomBand Wearable Wireless Waterproof Wrist Portable Sports Bluetooth Speaker Watch with Speakerphone & Ultra Low Profile Design for Climbing, Hiking, Running

I ride horses, and I bought this to strap onto my saddle or wear on my wrist while I ride (a similar speaker marketed specifically for equestrians is around $130 -- no thanks!). It works perfectly, with enough volume and clarity for me to enjoy my music without being distracting. The bad is a little awkward to get on one-handed, but once it's on it stays put. I never have to worry about losing my speaker on a ride. Since it's water resistant, I've also taken to hanging it on my shower rod so I can enjoy my private shower karaoke.It charges pretty quickly and the battery lasts a long time. The only thing I don't like about it is that you can't adjust the volume/skip songs from the speaker itself, and that it will turn itself off if you aren't playing any music after a short amount of time. I appreciate that it is trying to conserve battery, however the wait time seems really short, and it gets a little annoying to have to keep turning it back on and reconnecting. However, these are very minor inconveniences, and I highly recommend!

I love my Boom Band. I read some of the other reviews and I don't agree with negative ones, this band has given me life, it does have a long battery life, the sound is great for what it is, people it's not a big boom box!!! I love I can walk away from my phone and still be connected, I love the feature where she reminds you it's connected or not connected, I've even washed dishes in it and its fine. I'm a teacher also and since we are online teaching, I use it during my zoom times with my students, it is louder than my laptop, I teach PREK and some of my students don't talk very loud or their devices are either not turned up enough or the device is just not that capable. I use it when I'm in the kitchen cooking, sometimes I leave my phone in the bedroom, and I go to the kitchen to check on my food cooking, it stays connected, the distance is great. I have headphones that don't live up to this little speaker. The only problem I've had with it at first were the fasteners, they were hard to fasten and because they were hard to fasten, the band would come undone and fall off my wrists, this made me scared to wear it out of my house, so far I haven't left my house because of social distancing. But as of today I caught my 11 month old puppy chewing on my band, she chewed the very end, but guess what since she bit off the end I am able to fasten the band better. Looking at the other band that came with it, I just can't fathom myself trying to change bands, looks to complicated. I will be giving the Boom Band to my son, since the puppy is really his (he will be reimbursing me) and I will be purchasing a new one, I don't like anything tacky (not really tacky, I just like it the way I bought it) lol. Did I mention I love the price!! Would have given five stars but the band needs a better fastener, not a different band just change how it's fastened!!!

Works well bottom for work good sound quality could be a little louder

At first I thought this would be the small, portable speaker I could use while cycling. The design looked good, it wasn't flashy or made in a loud color, and The reviews seemed worth a shot. I like the size, the understated black, and the ease of pairing - however there two REALLY BAD things that I wish they did differently.I'll start with the most annoying of all: the power on/off voice prompts. When you turn the speaker on, you will hear a female voice say "POWER ON" in the LOUDEST VOLUME EVER! Regardless of what your device volume is set at, when you turn theBoomBand on, you will hear POWER ON every time! And on top of that - just in case that doesn't annoy you enough - the speaker does the exact same thing when you turn it off. When you turn the speaker off you get a similarly loud and annoying "POWER OFF" voice prompt! Why couldn't it just be a simple beep? There's a visual LED to show that the speaker is on or off, did they have to really add a voice prompt with a non-adjustable full blast volume??!Second, the design of the band how it goes together is not that great. The band uses a metal insert with two small pins that are supposed to grab at the other strap. The problem here is, the metal pins face inward, so if you try strapping the device to anything with a hard surface, it's a pain to try to get the pins to grab. If they simply flipped the metal pin design 180 degrees (like the Apple Watch strap has it) this would not be a problem.Honestly I really wanted to like this speaker - the actual sound output is pretty good for what it is (this is the only reason why it still gets 3 stars), and again I like the understated appearance - however the two problems I described above ultimately made me return the speaker, and I'll have to look at other brands to try to find what I need.