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The new Beats Pill is a glorious little speaker for all kinds of reasons . Chief among them in all likelihood is that you get a very able Bluetooth speaker for not a short ton of money .
In a lot of ways , and as you ’ve learn in ourBeats Pill review , the reading rest simple . You pair off your phone , play your music , and Bob ’s your uncle . But despite having just three button and that same canonical shape we ’ve have a go at it for years , there are a few decidedly deceptive features that you might well overleap — or that might air you scrambling for the manual .
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And there are a act of things the diminutiveBeats Pill can do that competitors ca n’t .
So here are our favorite Beats Pill lead and trick , for the 2024 role model .
The lanyard comes off
I love the laniard on the Beats Pill . It make it easy to carry , and gives you a room to hang it from places that might not otherwise patronize a speaker .
But there are metre in which I ’d prefer to not have the fiddling rope dangling off the side . peradventure it ’s for aesthetics — or mayhap the thing ’s just in the agency .
No matter the grounds — and forgive us for express what is nearly completely obvious — you may remove the lanyard . Just feed the long end back through the loop . ( And annul the process to put it back on . ) It ’s another simple-minded lineament that makes the Beats Pill capital .
It can charge your phone
This will splice in to way the buttons work — which we have listed below if you want to skip onward . But it ’s worth a reminder that the Beats Pill can serve as a portable assault and battery charger , which is always a just thing . Beats does n’t give the precise battery electrical capacity of the Pill , but suffice to say it ’s almost sure as shooting greater than that of your phone .
Here ’s how to get the Beats Pill to charge your sound : With the speaker turned off , plug one end of the cable television into your phone , and the other into the Beats Pill . Then entreat the tycoon push three time . ( Note that you’re able to bet music while your speech sound is charging . Nice . )
The power button
OK , here ’s more on the Power clitoris . Yes , it turns the Beats Pill off and on , but that ’s just the start .
The center button
The Center button — it ’s the release between the power button and the volume buttons — has a lot going on , too . It ’ll control a lot of the canonical functionality of the Beats Pill , and it also is how you ’ll get the Beats Pill to launch into some of its more interesting features .
That ’s a surprising number of feature for a piddling Bluetooth verbalizer , indeed .
