Customer Ratings & Reviews

[Employee of bestbuy] Loud and battery last a while but all of a sudden it stopped working and won’t power on. About 2 months old, no water damage and wasn’t dropped. Also the front mesh isn’t very durable. I dinged it on a table corner and it dented

After using the Beats Pill for about a week, I was left disappointed with it. To be honest, they didn't live up to their name and quality that I was used to. Sub par sound and a very useless App. Price point doesn't match the value. Again, my opinions. In the box was the speaker, USB C cable to charge it and a paper with basically a QR code to get started. Build quality gets some top marks and feels heavy (not too heavy) and premium in the hands. Setup was as simple as any other Bluetooth speaker on the market. After that you can just get to jamming out. They have a Beat App to download, but I found it severely lacking in any options. One thing I found I hated is how they did the Power Button. Click it and it turns on. You would think, ok hold it and it turns off, right? Wrong. It goes straight to pairing. You have to time it perfectly for about 2 seconds for it to turn off. Any shorter it does nothing, longer it goes to pairing mode. The design though is fairly small for you to travel with it anywhere and pretty useful outside with it's IP67 rating. Sound and performance To me, anything I played on the Pill sounded flat with no life to it. Bass was mid to heavy and you can actually feel it when holding the speaker. Sure it'll fill the whole room with sound but, unless you download a 3rd party app, there is absolutely no type of EQ for you to personalize your music. Also for the Audiophiles, there is no support for any aptX codecs, just the standard AAC codec. Battery life claims about a day of usage and found it to be quite true. I have used the Pill about 7-8 hours a workday and had to charge it on the 3rd day. App is worthless. No EQ settings....nothing. You can basically rename the speaker and change the tone volume for sound effects. That's about it. To me, this is just an average Bluetooth speaker with no customizations and should have a better price to performance ratio. There is so many better options out there.

The Beats Pill is an ok portable speaker. It has long battery life and decent enough sound, but its not the premium device I expected from a Beats product. Heres a quick summary of my thoughts Pros Long Battery Life Sturdy Build Quality Cons Convoluted Buttons Sound Quality at High Volumes Terrible Bass at all ranges So for starters, the build quality on the Pill is great. It feels really hefty, has a rubberized material covering the entirety of the device excluding the speaker mesh and has a removable rope strap. Its water resistant so you don't have to worry about it getting wet (friend spilled a monster on it day 1 of having it, so that was tested). Battery life is great. I took it to work with me and used it all day. It seemed to lose about 10% of battery per hour of use, so it makes it through the entire day on a single charge. I didn't measure how long it took to charge, but after a couple hours it was at 100% again and ready to go. Included in the package is a USB-C to USB-C charging cable, but no charger. The sound quality on this is mediocre. I have another portable bluetooth speaker of the same size that sounds notably better with better bass and higher quality sound throughout the range. Both appear to be similar volume though. The app lets you push the volume an additional 25%, but at those volumes the sound quality just degrades further. I don't like simplified buttons on top. The power button has to be held to turn the device on an off, but at the same time if you hold it down it goes into pairing mode. So you have to time it just right to get it to turn off which is rather annoying. They opted for a singular control button on this as well. It servers as the Play/Pause/Skip and Reverse button. You have to memorize how many presses it takes skip/reverse, where I think adding 2 more buttons would have faired better. The app is pretty barebones as well. I was hoping to find a volume mixer so I could turn down the bass (because it sounds really bad), but there was no option. There isn't really much in the way of options within the Beats app for this device besides the overboost on volume. There is a nice feature where you can pair multiple pills together within the app, but its exclusive to just pills whereas other manufacturers let you span sound across any BT speaker. All in all, pretty disappointed in Beats for this. I was expecting a more premium sound and audio mixing capability but none of that can be found here. If this was another brand I wouldn't be surprised but its not.

This in theory is great but the functionality and quality is not that good so allow me to explain. The power button: This button is a pain, you hold it for 3seconds to turn on and 3seconds to turn off but if you hold it for a bit longer then it goes into pairing mode. This 1 button in theory is good but the execution wise it’s horrible because that 1 extra second would put it in Discovery mode which after a few times gets on my nerves. Sound Quality: If you hold it close to you with 1 speaker it does not sound too bad, it’s decent but not close to the Bose speaker of cause. As a single speaker this will get the job done and will allow you to jam out but don’t be expecting the bass like the Beats earbuds or any other Beats product but then again it’s 1 speaker only so keep that in mind. Size wise: The material on the back will not last so give it a year of consistent holding then I am sure the backing will be sticky. So far it’s not bad it works pretty good overall but I would not buy again.

Good design, very portable, great autonomy battery, sound bass is not so clear as well the middle speaker system sound, the beat app for iPhone doesn't work with the speaker. I hope a soon software update for 2025 that fix this issues to become a 4 star product.

[Employee of bestbuy] Overall the sound quality of the Pill itself is very nice, definitely not the best sounding speaker I’ve owned but it’s still nice. The main thing that I don’t like is the power on/off button, if you press it too long it launches into pairing mode. If you don’t press it long enough it doesn’t do anything, it’s a weird game of finding the right amount of time to press it to actually turn it off

I purchased this to use as a TV speaker for my Samsung Q60 series 43 TV.....it would NOT stay connected; i would hear sound playing from it for one second and it automatically disconnected. I spent hours researching/contacting help and re-setting my TV and pill - still only works wiht my phone, ipad or nintendo switch

The sound is clear but doesn't get loud enough I wouldn't buy this again.

Sounds good but battery life is horrible. Volume at 60% and last only about 3.5 hrs and thats me being generous.

It says an open box excellent condition but it can with out charging cable also when I took it to the store where I bought from had difficult time return it there

Sound is good but could be louder, recommend JBL speakers for loud music. Battery life is good.

[Employee of bestbuy] Good sound and quality unfortunately started to get static on the speaker not even a month into having it

Initial pairing was a pain but after that it performed well. No difference in sound or quality from previous pill plus model from 10 years ago. Would only recomemt if your old pill was broken

Average compare to Bose Flexi Not able to sync smoothly

Bought this beats pill as a replacement for my JBL flip 6, and let me tell you, Beats Pill has good sound but lacks bass and sounds destostored when turned up at max volume, I give this speaker 3 out of 5 stars

Was a very good speaker and I loved ot very much, but it stopped turning on. I think it may be a battery issue or it got moisture in it. But overall very good speaker maybe just used incorrectly.

Kept disconnecting from phone and it was very low had to return

At low volume it sounds good but when you increase volume its sounds warbly and distorted not sure if was a defective but at high volume its terrible.

Its alright… I would rather go Bose personally. I feel like they could have done a better job on the Pill refresh.

Its Ok for the price, not to loud. If you want something loud nice base this is not it.