Beats Pill Pro Reviews

The Beats By Dre Pill is a sleek, portable Bluetooth speaker that can't handle the bass it tries to output.

My only real gripe about the Pill was the hiccups during playback with my iPhone 4S. That's likely related to Apple's iOS 6 software update, so I'm not ready to blame Beats. But it's hard to rate a product when it works fine with Android devices and encounters some problems with Apple devices. In other words, if you have an Apple device with iOS 6 on it, you may want to wait until any Bluetooth issues get sorted out before buying this and maybe other Bluetooth speakers (we'll update this review when we hear more). But aside from that caveat, I think the Beats has an impressive design, sounds a bit better than the competition despite its limitations, and has a strong feature set, and its accompanying carrying case is nice. At $199, it's a little pricey -- it really should be closer to $150 -- but at least Beats didn't bring it out at $250, which would have made it difficult to recommend. As it stands, it's a very well-designed portable Bluetooth speaker. It just needs to work very well with all Bluetooth-enabled devices.