{"id":21078,"date":"2016-01-28T15:43:03","date_gmt":"2016-01-28T15:43:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/?p=21078"},"modified":"2016-01-28T15:43:03","modified_gmt":"2016-01-28T15:43:03","slug":"divoom-aurabox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/2016\/01\/divoom-aurabox\/","title":{"rendered":"Divoom AuraBox"},"content":{"rendered":"

Just a quick review of a the Divoom Aurabox\u00a0that I acquired the other day courtesy of mobilefun.co.uk<\/a>. I’d been thinking about getting a bluetooth enabled speaker so that I could play music or podcasts from my phone for a while. Doing so via bluetooth works well in my car but since getting rid of my huge hi-fi system whilst decorating my office<\/a> we\u00a0didn’t really have a suitable way of doing this at home.<\/p>\n

The Divoom Aurabox is a medium-sized\u00a0bluetooth speaker unit with a few extra features. In addition to the speaker itself it has a ‘screen’ on the front comprised of 100 RGB LED lights. These can light up in 8 different colours allowing you to create patterns on the screen. All of this is\u00a0controlled via an easy to use mobile app. It arrived yesterday, so after a quick unboxing it was time to play with it.<\/p>\n

Unboxing the Divoom Aurabox<\/h2>\n

I wasn’t really sure what to expect from it. At around \u00a359 it\u00a0isn’t the most expensive speaker system out there and with it’s lights and other ‘funky’ features I was worried\u00a0that it might be a little cheap and plasticky but I was pleasantly surprised by weight of the box and then the good quality, unstated packaging. Things were looking up. The unit itself was good quality too. There was a fair bit of weight to it and it seemed well put together.<\/p>\n\n\t\t