Product Description

Plug it in. Turn it on. Listen up.Whether you want to share your music with the crowd, take a break from your headphones, or boost your business presentations, Monster iSpeaker Portable is your easy, lightweight solution. Just plug iSpeaker Portable into the headphone jack on your iPod or laptop and listen up. iSpeaker Portable's flat panel speaker technology provides full stereo sound that you can pack away until you need it. And iSpeaker Portable runs on its own batteries, so you don't have to worry about draining power from your iPod or laptop.

Product Details

• Brand: Monster
• Model: AI SPKR-PT
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 1.10 pounds

Features

• Easy, lightweight solution to listen to iPod and laptops
• Over eight hours of playtime from four AA Alkaline PowerCells
• Can be used with any portable audio device with a mini-jack output, including laptops
• Sleek double-CD case design is perfect for packing away until needed
• Includes a three foot mini-to-mini stereo cable and four AA alkaline PowerCells

Customer Reviews

utterly hopeless
I have seen some junk over the years, but this takes the prize...the most useful part was the 3.5mm cord and batteries. I doubt that this product cost more than $5 to make and I think its an embarrassment to Monster Cable, who I thought associated themselves with 'quality'...avoid this like the plague and go and buy the Tivoli-PAL...sure its more expensive, but you'll regret buying this Monster product, unless of course you make telephone calls with two bean tins and a piece of string, in which case you'll be pleasantly suprised!

Not bad, just a little overpriced.
Pros:
- Quite compact; as someone else said, it fits in my purse. If you are using it for your laptop it would easily fit in a laptop carrying case as well, since they usually have extra pouches.
- Durable! Despite the fact that they're made out of plastic, the overall shape makes them harder to break.
- Little energy needed. At first I was annoyed that it could be powered ONLY by batteries and not by a cord, but after using them for awhile I realized a power cord would be more than necessary. I just recently changed the batteries for these speakers, and I've had them for over a year.
- Decent sound. Considering the build you wouldn't expect much from these, but they can get pretty loud and there's very little distortion.

Cons:
- High price. Unless you are buying these used (which you probably should), $60 is a lot to ask for these.
- No place to put the cord. With such a compact design, you'd expect that there would be some convenient place to put the cord when you aren't using them.

Summary:
Great speakers for travelling and at the office; but probably not worth the price unless you are buying them used.

Trashy in Every Way!
Wow! Incredible that such a cheap and useless product could every make it to market. The sound is horrible and the case construction is flimsy. When you open the case, the wires are exposed. I nearly broke the case just getting the batteries in. Luckily, for me, I purchased mine at Meijer for just $7.00 on clearance...but in my opinion, I feel I was ripped off even at this price.