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I have had this for about 2 years and used it with several phones.

The speaker is decent, but the microphone is terrible. People complain that they can barely understand me even when very, very close to it and I have heard it from the other end too when someone else was talking into it.

Terrible, terrible, terrible microphone!!!

Don't waste your time and money and frustration just because it's solar.

If I could give it 0 stars, I would, so not worth it.

I'm very happy with this product. Very clear voice sound. Mounting was very easy and it came with a charge and is solar powered. Buy it.

I was starting to research various bluetooth speakers when I noticed what appeared to be a too-good-to-be-true price on the Anycom SCK-1 at one of those sale-of-the-day sites. I had never heard of Anycom and was suspicious that it might be a cheap off-brand-piece-of-crap. I was wrong. I charged it up by booking the usb cable into my MacBook instead of plugging into the powerblock or car charger that Anycom supplied. The solar panel does an amazing job of keeping the unit charged--even better than indicted in the manual. It's been four months since it's initial "plug-in" charge and only today did I have to plug it back in to charge--after leaving it turned on in a dark garage for quite a while. One small caveat--when it fully discharges, the solar panel will struggle to recharge it, especially through the tinted glass in cars. (The tinted glass doesn't make a difference keeping the unit charged. It only matters when the unit is beeping at you to recharge it.) It began beeping once while I was traveling and I hadn't brought the charging cables. I just took it up to my hotel room and laid it in an open window for a few hours and it was satisfied enough to stop beeping at me.

Oh yes, the sound. The people on the other end of the line are amazed I'm speaking to them on a speakerphone even when I have the top down on my convertible in busy city traffic. Of course, I may have trouble hearing them with the top down, since noise reduction technology on any bluetooth accessory only works on the microphone, not the ear piece (too often people think the noise reduction technology will help them hear better, but it actually only helps their callers hear them).

I am very happy with the Anycom and have recommended it to my friends.