Here comes another set of portable speakers into the market – the Pandora Neo Classic speakers. They aren’t the typical speakers though, as they look absolutely stunning with the wood textures, an array of connectivity options, and comes with a neat remote control too. Check out our full coverage of the Pandora Neo Classic speakers here!

We unboxed both Pandora Neo Classic speakers for you, with a quick sound test on it too. Check out the video here! Also, it has a really interesting box – I think you’ll find it amazing. Both the Pandora Neo Classic 600 and Pandora Neo Classic 800 here have the Cherry Oak wood, which is beige in colour. There’s an option for Maple wood that gives the brown wood colour too.

Yupe, it’s a cake box!

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The Pandora Neo Classic speakers are really looking fantastic. They’re both encased by wood at the side. The Pandora Neo Classic 600 having a straight, pointy edge wood which looks like it’s made out of 4 separate pieces of wood. In contrast with its elder brother, the Pandora Neo Classic 800 seems to have curved edges with wood vinyl wrapped around the entire exterior, and meets at the bottom.

I do wish that Sonic Gear opted for a better QC, as the Pandora Neo Classic 800 seems to have tiny chipped bits along its side, which created some unpleasant sight of tiny dark spots. They’re not really a huge deal and actually too tiny to realize anyway, but it’s something that I feel that I should point out. It still looks and feels stunning though.

At the front of both the Pandora Neo Classic speakers, it has 5 buttons – a standard power, play, previous, next, and mode button.

Changing radio stations was a breeze – if the radio channel on 95.8MHz is saved on preset number 15 on the Pandora Neo Classic speakers, I just have to change the mode to FM radio and press numbers 1 and 5, and the screen will appear number 15. All I have to do next is wait for about 2 seconds, and it changes to preset number 15 with frequency of 95.8MHz. Really nice.

Next up I formatted a random USB drive I have laying around to FAT32 format, copied about 20 mp3 files inside and plugged it into the Pandora Neo Classic 800. I had my fair share of fun with it – as the screen on the Pandora Neo Classic is slightly wider than the Pandora Neo Classic 600, which displayed the date constantly.

Changing tracks on USB mode is the same too – just press in whichever track number I want the Pandora Neo Classic speaker to play, and it will skip to that song directly. This feature is extremely handy, and I personally used this feature way lot more than just skipping tracks one by one. If I spammed the next or previous button, the both Pandora Neo Classic speakers will suffer the same thing – the first few tracks were skipped without issues, and then starts lagging for quite a while, then continues skipping tracks again. So just press whichever track number you want and let it play – much faster, and doesn’t lag at all.

Bluetooth connection is as expected – quick and easy. I just hoped that FM radio is toggled by a separate mode button instead of cycling through the “alarm clock” mode first, then to the FM radio, then to USB/micro SD/aux (assuming you have one of them), and finally to the Bluetooth mode. Maybe separating the “alarm clock” mode would be nice, since most of us aren’t going to be connected or listening to music 24/7.

One little side note though, the Pandora Neo Classic 800 has a much smoother knob, compared to the Pandora Neo Classic 600 which has a knob that always snags on itself and refuses to rotate.

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Both the Pandora Neo Classic speakers have a 1,800mAh battery, and for a portable speaker like this, it’s quite a huge battery. Other speakers I’ve came across have less than 500mAh, but they connect solely by either Bluetooth or 3.5mm audio jack. These two Pandora Neo Classic speakers however, need some additional power to power up the micro SD card or the USB flash drive, not forgetting the screen, although it is tiny.

That said, the tiny screen on both the Pandora Neo Classic speakers do have a small little battery gauge to tell how much battery is left in the speaker itself. The speakers do take quite a long time to charge, but depletes rather slowly too. The LED behind the speaker will be red when it’s charging, and green when it’s fully charged. Typical story here.

For me, the battery life of both the speakers are a huge issue. Not because of the battery life, but due to the lack of a secondary battery. If 1,800 mAh battery is completely depleted and the Pandora Neo Classic speakers powered down, you’re done for. All of the time and date settings are gone, FM radio channels are gone. All of your settings are gone. Also, it takes quite a long time to charge before being able to start the speaker again.

Sonic Gear would have created the best all-in-one portable speaker that I’ve used, if they have included a CMOS battery. Just one little button cell battery to make sure all of those settings are intact – not difficult at all, but also the most important component of a speaker with all of these features. I don’t really care if there’s a slight addition to the cost, just do it. All of these settings should be retained even if the battery is completely dried up.

Wrap up

The Pandora Neo Classic speakers are fantastic little devices – they sound good, look amazing, and functions like a modern radio alarm clock on the bedside table if you’re using it like me. Else, it can be a desk speaker as a piece of furniture that plays soothing music while you work too. Lay it on some shelf and have the remote handy, because that’s all you need.

The prices and where to get these speakers are listed below. Check them out!

Pandora Neo Classic 600
Pandora Neo Classic 800

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