Portable speaker | £230 | View offers whf.cm/Charge5_wifi
JBL rarely gets it wrong when it comes to portable speakers. The excellent Flip 5 and Flip 6, the booming Xtreme 3, the adorable little Go 3 and, of course, the Award-winning Charge 5 – this is a brand that gets audio-on-the-go like few others. With such pedigree, the new JBL Charge 5 Wi-Fi has a lot to live up to.
Instinctively, many of JBL’s large roster of portable speakers revolve around outdoor use via the convenience of Bluetooth, with most of the brand’s models sold as free-roaming units that don’t require tethering to a stable wi-fi connection. As long as you have a phone or other music source that can handle basic Bluetooth, you’re sorted as far as your JBL unit is concerned.
This new model adds wi-fi to the Charge 5's talents, and there’s a lot to
