Is the Generic Unicorn Kids Bluetooth Speaker (no-name brand) worth buying?

Save yourself the twelve dollars and the disappointment — skip the novelty shapes entirely. If I had to boil all of this down to one piece of dad advice, it’s this: buy the JBL JR Pop or the UE Wonderboom 3 and stop scrolling. Both of them will survive whatever your kid throws at them — literally — and they’ll still sound good doing it. The temptation to save ten bucks by going with an unknown brand is real, and I have personally fallen for it twice. It’s not worth it. Maisie is currently using the Wonderboom 3 as her ‘official bedroom speaker’ and the JBL JR Pop is in her backpack at all times, which I consider a successful product deployment. If you’ve got a speaker your own kid swears by that I didn’t cover here, drop it in the comments — we’re always one enthusiastic request away from another round of testing in this house.

Note W000546. Filed.