I must admit I was excited to receive the just-announced pair of DLO Portable Speakers for iPhone, simply for one main reason. For some time, I had been looking for a good portable speaker system that could be used with iPods and iPhones, as well as other devices. I found a few that were ok on the iPod, but when it came to the iPhone, the TDMA noise frequently made listening a real pain.
What is TDMA noise? Simply described, it is the patterned buzzing or beeping tones that you hear when you put your iPhone next to an unshielded speaker. These magnetic tones happen when you are receiving data (the antenna is active) on your iPhone and are picked up by unshielded speakers. I was first introduced to this phenomenon when I had my Tmobile Sidekicks. I thought it was extremely annoying then and I think it is now as well. If you want a technical definition of TDMA, look here.
So, what did DLO do? They recognized this as a pretty big issue (this is why many of the iPod FM transmitters for your car always give you a compatibility warning on 
your iPhone when plugging them into your iPhone), and they created a shielded, portable speaker system. But they didn’t stop just there. They packaged the system up as a true, on-the-go, portable system. The speakers’ unique design allow for them to be packaged up in an elliptical ball, making it very portable and rugged.
Ok, so the top two pictures are from the DLO product page. But I did take a few pictures of what is contained in the box and how the device looks from a “real world” view.
UNBOXING
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