“Does the speaker use a separate battery to chrge your phone? If I'm using the speaker to charge my phone, does this diminish the speaker's run time? I was speaking to a JBL rep at the store (at least he was wearing a t-shirt that had JBL on it and he was hovering around the speakers) that stated the speaker has a separate battery and this would not reduce my play time even if I used all the juice to recharge my phone. I can not find anything to confirm what he said.”

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• That "rep" doesn't know what he is talking about. Charging anything through the charge port will reduce the battery life and play time of the speaker.

  Answered by dragonlord22 10 years ago

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• It uses the same battery for the speaker and charging, and charging a device will shorten the speaker's battery charge.

  Answered by LXVI 10 years ago

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• Yes it will deminish your play time.

  Answered by Dwayne 9 years ago

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• Sounds like he didn't know what he was talking about. The specs call out one battery and provides both the 12 hours and the device charging. So if you use if to charge your phone, expect that they playtime will go down for the speaker. "6000mAH Rechargeable Battery. Built-in rechargeable Li-ion battery supports up to 12 hours of playtime and charges devices via the USB port."

  Answered by SteveOh 10 years ago

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• If you use the speaker to charge your phone it will definitely reduce the charge on the speaker, unless you have the speaker plugged in. I use it to charge my phone all the time, but typically only when it is plugged it, so that I can maintain charge on both.

  Answered by cbtbsail 10 years ago

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• Not sure about the separate battery. I'm going to contact JBL direct. I will say this. If it's not separate I don't notice the life of the battery draining faster with the phone charging and music playing

  Answered by specialk16 10 years ago

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• No, this only has a single battery.

  Answered by CommunityAnswer 10 years ago

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• Not at all comes with its own power cord

  Answered by Svillasenor1205 10 years ago

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