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Speakers these days! They are everywhere, in constantly evolving iterations, smaller and more versatile than ever before. Singaporean manufacturer X-mini has a pretty good foothold in this game with a consistent brand message of "Sound Beyond Size." That indicates the portability, mass, and reproductive capacity of its products in a pretty nebulous fashion, so we decided to grab its latest offering, the Bluetooth-toting KAI, and place it in our real lives for a few months. It's available now for $99, which will take it off the table for many casual listeners, but those who crave what's next in distributed audio might find KAI to be quite the ear-opener. We got pretty close with it (but not weird close), and we have a couple of things to say about that whole size / sound relationship they're so keen on.

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X-mini KAI capsule Bluetooth speaker review originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 16 May 2012 15:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

Permalink | Email this | Comments]]>audiobluetoothbluetooth speakerBluetoothSpeakercapsulekaiportabilityportableportable audioPortableAudioreviewspeakerspeakerstinyx-minix-mini kaiX-miniKaixminiWed, 16 May 2012 15:00:00 EST<![CDATA[X-mini KAI Bluetooth speaker daisy chains the jams]]>http://www.engadget.com/2011/10/31/x-mini-kai-bluetooth-speaker-daisy-chains-the-jams/http://www.engadget.com/2011/10/31/x-mini-kai-bluetooth-speaker-daisy-chains-the-jams/http://www.engadget.com/2011/10/31/x-mini-kai-bluetooth-speaker-daisy-chains-the-jams/#comments The X-mini series of portable speakers may not have changed much in appearance over the years (with a few exceptions), but the company behind them has now finally made one significant upgrade: it's produced a Bluetooth model. As with the other speakers, the new X-mini KAI is a pocket-sized device, and it can be daisy chained with additional speakers for some bigger sound (a standard 3.5mm jack is also included for your non-Bluetooth devices). No word on a North American release just yet, but you can look for it to hit parts of Asia in December for around $100, and CNET has hands-on at the source link below.

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X-mini KAI Bluetooth speaker daisy chains the jams originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 31 Oct 2011 16:25:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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If you've ever thought to yourself, "I could use a pair of tiny, tinny, and aesthetically-impaired portable speakers for my laptop or PMP," this is your lucky day. X-Mini, known for pushing sound through something that looks like a cross between alien hardware and a donut, is back on the scene with the Max II. A stunning departure from the usual fare, this thing ditches the wagon wheel in favor of something that one of Dark Helmet's minions might wear in Spaceballs. Apparently, the new design also features a bigger driver meaning, you guessed it, "twice the bass." We didn't have the heart to point out that two times bupkis is still bupkis. We're not sure when this 2.5W sonic wonder will be released in the US, but we'll be keepin' our eyes peeled.

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X-mini Max II looks like a trash can, pumps out the jams originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 24 Apr 2009 10:13:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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There's just something slightly alien to the X-mini, and this latest "Happy" model does little to assuage our unfounded fears of it. What's new this time around is MP3 playback, thanks to an SD card slot. Size and shape-wise it's almost identical to its X-mini II predecessor. Happy can handle about 6 hours of playback, or 11 hours of speaker work, on a charge, and the USB cable not only charges the ball but also allows the unit to work as a slightly-less-difficult-to-misplace SD card reader. You can also still daisy chain Happy speakers like with the X-mini II. Happy is currently in prototype stage, and should hit the market sometime around Q3.

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X-mini Happy arrives for quasi-spherical MP3 playback originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 23 Apr 2009 10:08:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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The kids over at CNET have got their hands on the new X-mini II portable speaker for laptops, PMPs, and the like -- and they've been gracious enough to give us the lowdown. The speaker is an update to the X-mini, incrementally larger than its predecessor and packing a 40mm driver. Powered by a rechargeable battery, this bad boy can be juiced up via mini-USB cable (included) and boasts a pretty impressive eleven hours of run time before it needs to be recharged. And if that weren't enough, several of these guys can be daisy chained together -- so if you should find yourself in your dorm room with nothing to amuse yourself but your iPhone, an acoustic guitar, and some Dave Matthews Band MP3s, you can string up a half dozen or so of these things and have an old fashioned grape jam. Look for the speaker sometime in March, with a probable MSRP of $29.

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The portable, rollable X-mini II speaker gets a refresh originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 22 Jan 2009 19:44:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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