Pill

The new Beats Pill manages to hit a perfect sweet spot, combining sleek design, handy features, great battery life, and sound quality that arguably is the best you can get under $200.

The Beats Pill has improved in some key ways from its predecessor, particularly when it comes to sound quality, durability, battery life and price point.

The new Beats Pill marks a significant upgrade from its predecessor, maintaining its iconic shape while introducing lighter construction and IP67 dust and water resistance.

The Beats Pill delivers a great sound, room-filling volume, extensive battery life, robust durability and a lovely range of colours.

The new Beats Pill’s outdoor sound output is deceptively loud, with excellent projection and even longer battery life.

The new Beats Pill is a fantastic speaker with a questionable control scheme.

Beats has done something I thought nigh impossible these days, which is truly surprise me with a Bluetooth speaker.

The 2024 Beats Pill is a well-rounded portable Bluetooth speaker with impressive features like lossless USB-C audio, cross-platform compatibility, and excellent durability, though its mono output occa...

The Beats Pill delivers impressive sound quality and premium design at a competitive price point, though its complicated controls and limited multi-speaker capabilities hold it back from perfection.

The Beats Pill is a modestly-priced speaker that offers so much more than you would expect from it.

The Beats Pill is a worthy revival mostly due to the much-improved sound quality.

The Beats Pill is an easy choice if you're grabbing a speaker to go, with great sound, a cool design, and decent battery life.

The new Beats Pill is a good speaker at a good price, with some neat little extras.

The 2024 Beats Pill is a solid legacy sequel that's substantially better than its critics would have you believe, offering excellent sound quality, long battery life, and great value at its price poin...

If you’re in the market for a portable speaker that strikes the right chord between balanced sound and sleek portability, the Beats Pill hits a high note.

The Beats Pill has all new features repackaged in a familiar design with some interesting play modes that you may want to try out.

The new Beats Pill is a top contender with brash and brilliantly detailed sound, massive battery life, and premium features, though it has some control quirks and isn't as rugged as some rivals.

The 2024 Beats Pill is a well-made, portable Bluetooth speaker with good sound quality, long battery life, and a nice design, though it's not the cheapest option and has some minor audio limitations.

The Beats Pill offers a strong dose of bass and is a stylish, powerful speaker option for those seeking a splash of color and thumping bass.

This compact and stylish speaker does pack a punch and also offers some interesting features.

The new Beats Pill is the first Bluetooth speaker from the brand since the old Pill+ was discontinued in 2022, bringing improved water resistance, longer battery life, Find My and Find My Device suppo...

The $229 price for the Beats Pill+ might be steep, but it does deliver a decent, wireless sound experience.

Easily the best Beats-branded Bluetooth speaker yet - both in terms of design and sound quality - the Pill+ shows that Apple is taking the audio space seriously since its acquisition of Beats.

The Beats Pill is a really likeable portable speaker that ticks a lot of boxes for what most people will want a portable Bluetooth speaker to do, but dynamically struggles against the very best at thi...

The Beats Pill (2024) offers IP67 water resistance, cool colors, 24-hour battery life, and balanced sound, but its $149 price and lack of advanced features like Spatial Audio support make it a mixed r...

It's much better than the first two small-scale Pill speakers, but it's not quite good enough to get close to matching the best on sound.

The Beats Pill delivers underwhelming results in first reviews, with strong bass response but significant issues with distortion at higher volumes and lack of an equalizer.

At £190 the Beats Pill+ isn't a bad portable speaker, but it's overpriced and can't stand up against better performing competitors that cost less cash.

While Pill 2.0's look and feel are big successes, the audio quality — the most important feature of any speaker — leaves a lot to be desired.

The 2024 Beats Pill offers great bass and build quality but suffers from frustrating Bluetooth connectivity issues and is heavily iPhone-centric.

The Beats by Dre Pill (2024) has acceptable overall sound quality but suffers from obvious shortcomings in bass detail, midrange clarity, and treble smoothness.

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Here’s my review of the redesigned and reengineered Pill portable speaker by Beats (& Apple).