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Last April I bought this portable Bluetooth speaker to use at work to pair with my Droid 3 slumming as an MP3 player. For a little speaker in a factory environment, it puts out very decent sound. It's not stereo, but at work it's more for background listening more than anything else. in fact, I picked it up because a couple different guys at work already had them. For $36 (at the time), I couldn't go wrong. In November of last year, the charging port started becoming loose. It wasn't bad at first, but by last month, trying to arrange the cable just the right way to be able to get a full charge made trying to hold the rabbit ears to get the ball game in focus on the RCA Victor TeeVee look easy! Fortunately I remembered that there was a one year limited warranty on this speaker. I contacted the manufacturer (HDMX) who hooked me up with a return shipping label. I boxed it up, shipped it out, and today I received my brand new replacement speaker. So not only am I recommending the speaker, I'm recommending doing business with HDMX thanks to their great customer service.

BACKGROUND: September 2012 got a 2013 Honda Accord EXL. It has a system called HandsFreeLink with which you can pair a bluetooth phone and use your cell phone hands-free. At the time I had a Sanyo Vero SCP-3820 (Sprint). It worked fine with the new car. In December 2012 I get a new phone from Sprint (Samsung M400) -- it pairs with the bluetooth okay but I CAN NOT RECEIVE calls. I can make outgoing calls. Unbeknownst to me when I got the new phone was a Honda web site (http://automobiles.honda.com/handsfreelink/find-a-phone.aspx) which lists phones compatible with their HandsFreeLInk system; of course my phone was not on the extensive list. (My wife has a Samsung M370 and it can successfully make outgoing calls AND receive incoming calls.) PHONE INFO: My Samsung M400 has the following - Under "Version": PRL: 50592, S: LH6, H: M400.05. - Under "My Bluetooth Info": Supported Profiles: HSP/HFP/OPP/PBAP/DUN THE QUESTION (finally!, right): Is there a firmware and/or software upgrade which can make my phone work as it is expected to with HandsFreeLink? It baffles me that a newer model of essentially the same phone as my wife's can not answer calls on the HandsFreeLink. Steve