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Tired of people complaining when you use your smartphone as a speakerphone? Yeah, it doesn't really work. But the slick, tiny, and highly portable AIRHUG Portable Bluetooth Speakerphone ticks all the boxes: It's easy to use, you sound great, and they sound great too. Tech expert Dave Taylor checks it out and demos the key features.
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Improve your conference calls and much more with this little speakerphone. Let's check it out
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Dave Taylor here and I'm checking out this this little guy is the air hug Bluetooth speakerphone
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pretty simple, but works really well and it's basically a Speaker that's Bluetooth, but it also has a bunch of microphones for pickup
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So it also means that it's also an audio input So pair this with your computer with your phone with your tablet
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Whatever you have and all of a sudden all your phone calls all your conference calls
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All your zoom calls all your Microsoft meet calls and all of those all get better
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Because you're getting better audio quality in both directions Now one of the things you can use this for is you could just use it as a speaker
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So let's start with that. I'm gonna just sort of weave some demos in as we go. So I've paired this with my
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Apple iPhone 13 Pro and literally pairing it took I don't know three seconds
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Because you turn it on and it immediately goes into pairing mode because it's never seen anything. So that was super easy
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So, let's see. I want to go to some music So here we go, and I know you're obviously gonna hear it through my little tiny microphone
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But imagine this is a handy little music speaker And there's volume on the front so I can make it louder or softer
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Right, it doesn't get hugely loud But remember its primary purpose isn't to be a speaker for your music
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But to be a speaker phone, so there's some music we move forward a little bit
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And there's actually bass So it's actually pretty decent, you know, I don't think you're going to replace your large stereo system with this little tiny speaker
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But it's a nice feature and what that means of course is it can do that audio reproduction
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So I thought hmm. Well, what voice could we use and I just happen to have a lecture
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Sort of an audiobook on my phone and this is about detective fiction
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So I'll just play just a couple of seconds of it so you can hear what a voice sounds like
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Well, see we have to get past that Tomorrow I want to focus on American detective eminently listenable really nice
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So I'm gonna just stop there because I definitely don't have the rights to play this particular lecture
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But you can hear for music and for voice. It does a really nice job of reproduction now
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Let me tell you a little bit more about it And then I'll actually record some so you can hear what I sound like too now it has 360 degree full-range pickup
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So that means that wherever you are if you put this in the middle of the table
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Then everyone's gonna sound good and everyone's gonna be picked up You don't want a directional microphone for something like that
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If you're gonna use this for all the kids clustering around the table talking to grandma or something
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This is gonna do such a better job for audio pickup than the microphone on your computer
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DVD sound quality Bluetooth 5.0 Let me get the logo on the top and it has its own advanced noise reduction algorithms and echo
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Cancelling because one of the problems with speakerphones is you get that sort of echoey sound and people know
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You're on the other end of a speakerphone because because you you sound sound like like that that and it's super annoying
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So people like can you pick up the handset? You'll hear it doesn't do that. It actually gets rid of that
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It also has a digital signal processor that adds 25 decibels to the voice, but it's hearing
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So it sort of boosts up the voice to get it above the background noise, too
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It is USB C plug-and-play. There are two ports on the side
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One of which is for charging and there are a bunch of lights along the bottom that show you how charged it is
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And the other one is just USB and that one you can literally just plug into this end
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Plug into your computer and you're ready to rock and roll whether you're running Mac or Windows or even Linux or Chromebook or something
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So all of that will work and in fact air hug also separately sells a USB dongle
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So if you want to use this wirelessly, but your device doesn't have Bluetooth that USB dongle is a good option, too
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You'll have to look up the price for that ones, but that is an option you can get and makes it super easy
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So it is 4.1 by 4.1 by 1.2 inches it is 6 ounces
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so it is small and it is light and Let's go ahead and look at see what's in the box. So in the box is
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instructions incredibly helpful actually and a really nice soft carrying case and then in the carrying case are
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Let's see, so this is USB-c to USB-c nice little cable and then there's also
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USB-c to USB a which is the rectangle so props to them for including both so you have everything you need
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Regardless of what kind of device you're gonna hook it up to and then that's it. That's the whole thing
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It fits in nice and easy. You just remember to turn it off and you're good to go
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Now, let me give you a quick tour of all the buttons on the front on the top
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You have the power button that one's pretty obvious and then left to right we have Bluetooth
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volume down mute volume up and then answer or end call so all of that is documented in the user guide, which is very helpful and
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Let's see. I'm gonna get back to my audio recording. So we're ready for that
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So I did want to show you that if you mute Then all the lights on the bottom turn red and when I unmute it goes to green just to give you a quick feedback on
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I believe that's the current battery level and now we're good to go again So what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna switch audio sources so you can hear what this records of my voice
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So you are now hearing my voice through the air hug Bluetooth speakerphone as opposed to the microphone I use for my video recordings and you can hear there's no noticeable
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Echo, and it sounds really good and really clean really easy to work with
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So that's how this works and I gotta say I'm a fan
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I think they've done a really nice job and what's most notable about this is how incredibly light it is
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So it gives you somewhere I think around 10 hours or so of actual live use
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At any point you can always plug it in to get more power even while you're on a call
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It is 16 hours of standby battery and it's all you know, incredibly well designed. It's small
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It's very portable. If you don't want to use this case, obviously you can skip that and just carry this around
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but imagine the next time you're at a hotel or you're at a
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Event or something and you need to make a quick call or something. This will make it. It's a game-changer
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It will change how you actually are on the phone Most importantly if you're in a small conference room and you got two or three other people in the room with you and you're on
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a phone call or you're on a zoom meeting or you're on a Google meet or a
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Microsoft Teams or a Skype call or whatever it is use this for the audio side of it use your computer for the video side of it and
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Everyone's gonna sound better and the person at the other end is gonna sound better too
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Which is just gonna improve the whole experience Not only that but especially if you're not actually on video you can carry this around
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So you could take this and put this in the kitchen and then you can like, you know quickly
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Mute out because you're making some dinner and then you unmute when you need to talk again
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all of that super easy to work with and when your food is all ready and
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Busy cooking you can take this right back into your home office and you're back in the office
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So really portable really flexible definitely better audio quality than your phone's gonna give you as a speakerphone
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One worth checking out. So only thing we need to talk about is the price
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But before we get to the price, I'm gonna ask if you could subscribe to my channel
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I'll tell you what's good and what's not so good about the products I look at and I got a lot of products
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Anyway, cool. Well, this is one of them This is the air hug Bluetooth speakerphone and it's $69.99 at amazon.com
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That is a an entirely reasonable price to significantly up your game on any sort of
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Interactive conference call or video or anything like that? And the fact that it doubles as a decent little Bluetooth speaker. That's just an added bonus
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So really this is exactly the kind of thing. I want to have in hotel rooms
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for example I can have my computer on the desk in the hotel and Then I can just carry this around if I want to sit and look out the window while I'm talking to someone
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I'll just plop this on this, you know arm of the chair next to me or something and continue my conversation
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Really really convenient definitely a nice piece of engineering and it's one that you should probably check out. That's all I got
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I'll hope to catch you in my next video
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