You probably associate the Beats brand with its headphones and earbuds, but last year, it revamped its iconic portable speaker for the first time since 2015, upgrading it with a smart carry strap, lengthy 24-hour battery life, dust and water resistance, and impressive sound quality. It's waterproof and looks classy in either its classic red colour, subtle black or stunning Champagne gold.
If you’ve been scouring the Amazon Prime Day sales for a Bluetooth speaker bargain, this is the one we’d recommend. Every colour of the Beats Pill (2024) is reduced in the sale, down from the RRP of £149.99 to just £89, a 41% price cut. This is one of the best offers we’ve seen on the Pill. Aside from a short-lived deal at the end of May, it’s rare to see it available at under £100, which makes this latest discount for Prime members a steal.
Why pick the Pill over the rest of the other Bluetooth speakers you can find in Amazon’s sale? For us, it’s right in the sweet spot between portable and powerful – it’s still small enough that you can carry it around without it feeling like a brick and while the 680g is chunkier than certain rivals, it’s still under a kilogram and doesn’t weigh you down.
It’s also super easy to set up, especially for an iPhone users. Pairing is instant – it works just like if you were connecting a pair of AirPods to an iPhone, with no digging around in the Settings app. It’s just as easy for the Android users among us, because it has seamless Google Fast Pair, too.
It’s not short of extra features, like power bank functionality and the ability to play lossless audio over USB-C, but its default wireless sound is great. On test for our review, it impressed us with a distortion-free audio quality that was loud enough to easily fill a room.
Unsurprisingly, we highly rank the Beats Pill, with it ranking highly among the best options in our guide to the best portable Bluetooth speakers.
If you're keen to grab a Beats Pill this Amazon Prime Day, you'll need to act fast, though. The offer is exclusive to Prime members and due to expire at midnight tonight on 11 July 2025. If you haven’t got a Prime account, you’ll pay a higher, non-deal price of £119 for the speaker – that’s still less than the RRP, but it’s worth hopping on a 30-day free trial of Amazon Prime to take advantage of the deal.
Simon Cocks is Good Housekeeping UK’s Technology Editor, overseeing tech shopping content and strategy for the title. He previously also worked across other titles including Esquire UK, Digital Spy, Men’s Health UK and Women’s Health UK.
Simon specialises in testing the latest smart gadgets, home entertainment gear, headphones, speakers, portable chargers, radios, e-book readers and smartphones. He's reviewed top tech products from brands including Google, Apple, Amazon, JBL and Bose.
A magazine journalism graduate from Kingston University in 2014, Simon also worked on the Discovery and Silkroad inflight magazines. He then gained experience writing about entertainment at SFX and Total Film. He also contributed reviews and interviews to TwitchFilm (later ScreenAnarchy), CultBox and Frame Rated.
He joined Good Housekeeping UK as the Editorial Assistant for Special Projects and was part of Good Housekeeping’s Consumer Affairs Team between 2014 and 2019. In this role, he conducted price comparison research, wrote detailed household and money-saving advice guides and edited thousands of in-depth reviews for the Good Housekeeping Institute.
He has focused on technology and gadgets since 2020, where he started by testing out power banks and instant cameras. He writes reviews, roundups, news articles and deals updates, and also covers top tech deals during sales like Amazon Prime Day, Black Friday and Cyber Monday.
When not testing out the latest gizmos, you’ll find Simon either catching up with the newest releases at his local cinema or out shooting with his beloved compact camera.
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