Bluetoothing Music from phone ro speaker.

Oh I am sure he will love it baubles DH uses his regularly and the sound quality is fantastic considering how small it is.

gillybob I've just bought that one for DH's birthday next week. Hope he will be as happy with it.

That's my understanding gettingonabit

I bought this one for DH last Christmas. It wasn't cheap but we have tried the cheaper versions and the sound quality has always been poor once you turn the sound up. I have to say that the sound quality from this little gizmo is fantastic (as you would expect from Bose). The price tag of £169 is a bit frightening but I managed to get one with £20 off last year and it is worth every penny.

www.johnlewis.com/bose-soundlink-mini-ii-bluetooth-portable-speaker-with-built-in-speakerphone/p2041682?sku=234456814&kpid=234456814&s_kenid=d3b6efaa-7f69-4e4c-94de-84e3fa8d10d2&s_kwcid=402x366160&tmad=c&tmcampid=73

I go to a dance class and sometimes we want music to dance to that we don't have. I download it from I tunes for under £1 onto my I- pad and play it through a Bluetooth speaker I got in Curry's sale for £30. It is brilliant, good sound quality and the sound fills a large hall. The speaker is rechargeable via a computer then plays for 8 hours.
I just looked at Currys and they don't seem to have it anymore but there are plenty of similar items at a reasonable price.

Thanks. So watching the telly in real time is simply "watching the telly", however watching telly on the phone, or on the tablet or pc is "streaming"?

I have membership for Amazon Prime which means I can choose any of their Prime movies or TV programmes to stream on to iPad and watch. Or I could download them to watch later.

Does that explanation help?

Depends on whether you're watching it on TV (which is just 'watching it on TV and NOT streaming) or if you've watching it on something like your iPad.

And what's 'trending' now

So am I "streaming" the News at the moment then.? I'm watching it in real time, not recording to watch later.

Streaming means listening to music or watching video in ‘real time’, instead of downloading a file to your computer and watching it later.

Thanks all. grannynot I wish these geeky sorts in shops WOULD use words like "seeking each other out": it would make far more sense. I still don't really know what "streaming" is. .

I've found the Bluetooth button on my phone, so next step is John Lewis! I quite fancy the sound of that Roberts combo too....

I treated myself to a Cambridge Audio bluetooth speaker from John Lewis, which gives a much better sound than iPad or laptop. I use it quite often, for listening to iplayer radio. It's great that I can take it around the house and listen anywhere.
Whatever speaker you get - it will come with instructions!

You can listen to them in JL, take along your own phone/ipod or whatever you have and they will demonstrate with your own music.

As indeed they are Grannyknot

gettingon I wasn't making fun of you, it just made me - like they were looking for each other.

That should have said, of course, "on the top of mine". Oh edit button, where are you?

gettingon 'seek each other out' sounds much friendlier doesn't it?

Be wary of getting a wi-fi speaker. I had a very expensive Bose one and it all worked fine, until and unless I went online on my laptop or iMac. Then it just kept breaking up and stuttering. As soon as I logged out on the computer the speaker was happy again. I took it back to the Apple shop and got a replacement, thinking it was faulty. The replacement behaved just the same. When I took that one back to Apple, I spoke to a different fellow there, who told me that this is a known issue! That was a couple of years ago, so maybe it's been sorted now, but check first.
I ended up buying a small Bose bluetooth speaker and have never had any trouble with it. It's very simple to set up - you just enable your bluetooth on your phone or tablet, then click on something like 'search for other devices'. As long as the bluetooth on your speaker is turned on (there's a bluetooth button on the top of mean that lights up when it's on), it will find it and then you can link them.
Good luck.

granny I'm always scared of words like "syncing" and "streaming". Sounds so other-worldly (to an old gimmer like me, anyway).

pitt: I like the sound of that Roberts radio.

"They seek each other out" = they synchronise.

Ooh..sounds quite easy after on. Now where's the Bluetooth option on my phone, I wonder?

I've got a Roberts DAB radio that is also a CD player and a blue tooth speaker.
It's as simple to use as Anya says and I have a big choice of music.

PS you don't need to plug anything into anything.

Believe me, if I can do it anyone can!

It's simple. Just turn the speakers on and also the Bluetooth option on your phone. They will seek each other out.

Whatever next is you buy a new car that doesn't have a CD player and spend weeks trying to synch the music on your phone to your audio system! The people in the showroom were hopeless. "It's a new model and we've got someone going on a course". Even my tech savi s i l gave up in the end. He bought me a memory stick and showed me how to download my cd's onto it. Problem solved. Hope you get sorted, gettingonabit.