With the connector on this speaker, you can connect to a mobile phone or mobile player that is compatible, and then stream the tunes out loud. This speaker is a step down from the closely related SP-A230 in that it only has one 30mm driver (as opposed to two), runs on 2 AAA batteries as opposed to 2 AA batteries, and does not have the 2x 160milliWatt output the SP-A230 has. However, this speaker gets 30 hours of audio playback out of a pair of batteries, whereas the SP-A230 only gets 25. There are color options available for the JVC SP-A1M portable speaker.