Instead of introducing another compact portable Bluetooth speaker, Ultimate Ears has released a beefier model that packs more punch and costs $350. Executive Editor David Carnoy has been a leading ...

Today, UE Boom launched an update to their app, allowing users to link 50+ UE speakers over Bluetooth. The development is dubbed PartyUp, and it builds off of the existing DoubleUp technology. In ...

After covering the announcement of UE’s Wonderboom 2, I finally got my hands on one. And you know what? It’s an exciting-sounding, portable Bluetooth speaker that’s perfect for summer (and pretty much ...

Along with the craze for waterproof phones we're also now in need of things to pair with our phones so that we have something to do when we're splashing around in the tub. So enter Ultimate Ears ...

Other than adaptive EQ tuning, there’s not much in the way of new tricks. But this premium UE speaker seems built to lure customers away from smarter, Wi-Fi capable competitors like the Sonos Move.

These two party Bluetooth speakers are the top heavyweights contenders of the portable speaker division. So which one should you buy? Executive Editor David Carnoy has been a leading member of CNET's ...

The press material for PartyUp looks like the inevitable underground rave scene from a 90s hacker movie. Beyond that, I’m not really sure what the real world case use is for an app that’s able to ...

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Ultimate Ears (UE), best known for its custom-made in-ear headphones, also has a line of speakers named after the “Boom” suffix. The trend started in 2013 with their first “Boom” speaker, and since ...