Beats
Amazon has marked the Beats Pill portable speaker with Find My down to $99.99, a $50 cut from its $150 list price. That's 33% off, and it matches the lowest price I've tracked for this speaker. The deal covers all three colors: black, red, and champagne gold.
If you're an iPhone owner, this speaker is built for you. It pairs with one touch, syncs to iCloud so it's ready on your other Apple devices automatically, and hands audio off to your Apple Watch the moment your iPhone drifts out of range. Beats also built in Apple's Find My network, so if the speaker ends up buried under a beach towel or left behind at a barbecue, you can track it down the same way you'd track a lost AirPod. None of that requires an iPhone, either: the Pill pairs over standard Bluetooth with Android phones too, you just won't get the one-touch and Watch handoff extras.
Here's what to expect from the sound: this is a bass-forward speaker, and it delivers on that promise. The redesigned woofer that gives music a little punch and the tweeter keeps mids and treble stable. Turn up the volume too high, though, and you'll hear a bit of distortion creep in.
Battery life is rated at up to 24 hours per charge, and the USB-C port doing the charging can also top off your phone in a pinch. If you want better fidelity than Bluetooth allows, you can skip the wireless connection entirely and run a USB-C cable straight from the Pill to your laptop for lossless audio.
At $99.99, you're getting a speaker Beats still sells new for $150, with Apple ecosystem perks most competitors in this price range don't offer. If you live in Apple's world and want a speaker that gets reasonably loud and punchy without falling apart in the rain (it's IP67-rated), this is the one to grab before the price climbs back up.
