Customers highly value the Pill Portable Wireless Bluetooth Speaker and Portable Charger for its fantastic sound quality, amazing battery life, and great portability. Many appreciate the bouncing bass, convenient size, and impressive volume. While some find the speaker a little heavy and mention the power button operation could be improved, the overall positive feedback highlights its strengths in sound, battery, and portability.
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Rated 3 out of 5 stars
Mediocre Sound Quality with Good Battery Life
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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.
Posted . Owned for less than 1 week when reviewed.
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Perfect little speaker for on go. Got this for myself to play music around my apartment. Little but mighty. Sound quality is great and will be perfect for beach and park days. The battery does last a while and no connectivity issues either.
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I’ve been using this Bluetooth speaker for about a week now, and I’m really impressed with the sound quality. The audio is clear and well-balanced, with strong bass that doesn’t overpower the mids and highs. It gets plenty loud for its size and sounds great whether I’m listening to music or podcasts. Setup was quick and easy, and the connection has been stable so far. Overall, I’m very happy with this purchase and would definitely recommend it to anyone looking for a great-sounding Bluetooth speaker.
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I absolutely adore this speaker. Its sound quality is fantastic, and I highly recommend it. It’s a perfect 10/10!
What I particularly like is the price and quality. It’s also easy to carry around.
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It's great product sounds great it's not heavy so I can carry it around I can put it on my bike and go about my business without worrying about it getting damaged or having something too heavy to carry
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These really have excellent sound with full bass from an incredibly small speaker. I use 2 of these with the Beats app and connect them in stereo mode. Sound is excellent. Place them 30 or so feet apart and blast the music... it really is full and surrounds in great stereo sound. Cannot go wrong with Beats Pill.
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This beats pill os everything. It is compact, not bulky making traveling with them a breeze. I love the golden color. These speakers pack a huge punch in the sound department too. Crisp, clear sound with good bass is what you will get.
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I love this pill speaker. It sound nice and loud so I have to remember to keep the volume down. It is bassy but I love it anyways. I have a little music player without a speaker so this is worth it to me.
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I bought this Beat speaker for my daughter as a Christmas present and she loved it. Oh my God, the sound when you hook it up to the TV is incredible. The volume is movie theater vibe. No sound bar
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I got this on sale but it's worth the full price. It went down to $100. It's super loud and amazing. This is better than any Anker speaker or any other option for a speaker. I actually want to buy another one.
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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.
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I was looking for a portable speaker replacement for an old UE Boom I had and getting this far surpassed my expectations. It’s simple to pair, it sounds great and it replaced my HomePod mini as my desk speaker. I’ll probably get another one because I like it that much.