JBL Lightning Connector Speaker Docks
- Get the Micro ($18) or Mini ($30) or take our advice and get both for 20% less
- One little JBL Micro, for iPhones and iPods
- One bigger JBL Mini, with bigger speakers, rechargeable battery, and also compatible with iPads
- USB and aux in let you play and charge just about any non-Apple device.
- Model: JBLONBEATPRCBLKAM, JBLONBEATMICBLKAM
The answer to "which speaker dock should you buy?"
You know we’ve had our issues with speaker docks. We still think the dock-your-phone-to-listen-to-it model is a cumbersome anachronism in the age of Bluetooth. But you know what’s weird? You can solve one of their biggest problems - their inconvenience - by just having more of them. The JBL Micro for some quiet ambient sound by the bed or at our desks; the JBL Mini when we want to crank it a little; either one when we just want to charge our phone without leaving the room to get a cable.
One small and unobtrusive and just for iPhones and iPods, the other bigger and louder and for iPads, too. Put them together and you’ve built the perfect beast. So that’s how we’re offering them today: the JBL Mini and the JBL Micro, two mediocre tastes that taste somewhat less mediocre together. Don’t think of them as two products. Think of them as one product in two parts. Or, better yet, one product with the super powers to shapeshift and be in two places at once. See, they’re getting more interesting by the second.
Usually when some company uses the slogan “no compromise”, they’re bullshitting. One thing can’t give you everything. One device can’t give you both big and little - you have to compromise on one or the other. But two devices can. Sometimes the best “Swiss army knife” is two knives.
If you really want just one or the other, fine, buy them that way. We’ve sold tens of thousands of them at those prices because it’s still an amazing deal. But not only will you save 20% by buying them together, you’ll get a portable playing/charging system that’s much more than the sum of its docks.