THE SOLEMATE

The Jabra SOLEMATE is a medium-sized wireless speaker housed inside an rugged rubber enclosure, comes in black and white colors, measures 172mm in length, 65mm in width and 69mm in height and weighs just 600g.

To get a better idea on the size of the SOLEMATE i placed it right next to the SandBerg portable wireless speaker and the LG Optimus 2x smartphone.

At the top of the SOLEMATE Jabra has placed the volume up/down keys and the answer call/end call/battery level button.

The right side (depends on how you look at it) has the Bluetooth/Battery LEDs, the pairing/on/off switch, an 3.5mm port (for connection with devices that have an 3.5mm audio output) and the micro-USB charging port.

On the other side there’s a rather large carrying handle.

Now this may seem a bit weird but i never like to rely on marketing pictures (aside the intro/outro pages i never use them) so i decided to open the front of the unit to take a look on the subwoofer and the two tweeters (quality could be better but still it’s much better than most wireless speakers I’ve ever seen).

Once you turn the SOLEMATE over you finally realize why they gave that name to it since the bottom is just like the sole of a shoe (more like the sole of a hiking boot) while in the middle there's something that looks like a shoelace, at least at first glance.

Well it turns out that this "shoelace" is actually a 3.5mm mini-jack connector (luckily since i thought they didn't provide one in the bundle).

The carrying case is made by synthetic fiber and although it's not as "soft" as i'd like it to be it looks nice.

The SOLEMATE version used in this review was the 1.27.0 so i have a feeling Jabra will be releasing firmware updates in the future.