The Beats Pill speaker is back — now with 24-hour battery life and USB-C audio

After respective months of leaks and public sightings, the Beats Pill talker has returned. Available to bid opening contiguous for $149.99, this portable Bluetooth talker looks precise akin to past versions, but it present offers IP67 particulate and h2o absorption and USB-C wired audio and supports autochthonal bundle features similar Find My / Find My Device crossed some iOS and Android.

The caller Pill — disposable successful black, red, oregon golden — volition beryllium successful stores arsenic of June 27th. Like galore speakers successful its terms category, it’s a mono speaker, though Beats claims the redesigned tweeter and woofer combo is sonically superior to the precise aged Beats Pill Plus. Other specs see artillery beingness “up to 24 hours,” speakerphone functionality, and the quality to brace 2 Pill speakers unneurotic either successful stereo oregon mono for synchronized playback if they’re successful antithetic rooms.

Beats has been connected a agelong tally of trying to entreaty to some Android and iOS customers equally, and the Pill continues that effort with one-tap pairing, Find My / Find My Device, and different tricks for some platforms. The speaker’s USB-C larboard is versatile: it tin complaint the Pill arsenic good arsenic outer devices and besides supports line-in audio.

I’ve had immoderate clip to trial retired the 2024 variation of the Beats Pill, and you tin read my afloat review for each the details.