Though Amazon's Tap looks a lot like the Ultimate Ears Boom 2, the sound unfortunately doesn't measure up. It does have some cool features: You can get a colorful skin for it; it comes with a wireless charging station, it has good battery life, and unlike the competition, it has buttons on the top that make it easy to control.
The "killer feature" is that it has Alexa on-board, a Siri-like system you can communicate with by talking. However, unlike the Amazon Echo, you have to press the button on the speaker every time you want to talk to it. It takes a lot of the "magic" out of the speaker.
However, even if the system was touch-free, the sound quality is not comparable to that of other Bluetooth speakers in the same price-range.
