Rapoo A500 – Bluetooth Speaker with NFC

Manufacturer Rapoo is the A500 on the shelf – a Bluetooth speaker with NFC technology, built-in battery and speaker phone. A first test shows what he does. Smartphones and tablet PC manufacturers ship in ever slimmer housing. There’s barely any room for reasonable speakers. The solution, mobile boxes that record wirelessly via Bluetooth to mobile phones and tablet’s contact. The latest copy is called Rapoo A500.

Transparent packaging.

Available in a blue, green, yellow and gray A500 is in a pretty Perspex packaging. In the package, you will find a bag, a USB cable for charging and a 3.5mm jack cable.

Contact by Bluetooth.

To establish a connection between your phone and the A500, you must first activate Bluetooth on your phone and then allow to locate the speaker and pair the two devices together. This worked in the test without any problems. The range between the devices may be ten meters according to the manufacturer, the test. Good: Per Multipoint, Connection allows up to two devices, such as a smart phone and tablet PC, connected in parallel with the Rapoo A500.

Simple connection thanks to NFC.

The Rapoo A500 has NFC technology on board. Are smartphone or tablet PC with the same technology (NFC smartphones and NFC tablet PCs can be found at Idealo) which provides a connection can be established easily: Provided NFC is enabled on the phone, you need the phone only to the A500-top hold, even the contact is made. Super: NFC turns on the Rapoo A500 an even – even if the power switch on the rear panel is set to ” OFF “.

Sound pretty neat.

Music and language give the Rapoo A500 in a fairly ordinary quality again. High and low notes sound relatively clean, but rich bass missing – no wonder, are the Rapoo A500 only 14×6, 2×3, 6 inches tall. Pity: from the maximum volume, the testers have been hoped-for something more. For background music’s enough though.

Handsfree well.

The Rapoo A500 have even included a microphone, with which the Bluetooth speakers are to qualify as a speaker phone. The sound of the conversation partner is rather mediocre, and the voice distorted to the called person – even if you speak directly into the microphone.

Conclusion: Rapoo A500 Bluetooth Portable Speaker NFC.

The currently around $85, Rapoo A500 are a useful accessory for smartphones and tablet PCs. Assuming you have an appropriately equipped device, make a quick and easy connection. And thanks to the included audio input and 3.5mm jack cable can also use the Rapoo A500on many devices without Bluetooth. The sound quality is pretty neat, but the speaker phone improvement.