Good Price point for product This is my 3rd JBL portable over a span of many years, they keep well. Recommend

I waited and waited.....and waited for this speaker because I lost my Flip 4 and thought the Flip 5 would be around much earlier than late July. So it finally comes and it has Partyboost that is not backward compatible with Connect+. Now I'm finding out the two features and how they connect use different hardware to do so and therefore a firmware update is most likely not possible so that partyboost and connect+ will become compatible. Dont get me wrong this is a darn good speaker and the best in its category but... NOW I am gonna get another Flip 4 to pair with my Charge 4 so I can party Connect+ style instead of Partyboost style. And no Bluetooth 5.0?!? Coming from a big fan - shame on you JBL

After a little over a year of use, the bluetooth no longer works. It powers on and off normally with all the usual sounds but when on, only the power button lights up, the bluetooth button neither lights up nor works at all. I've tried all the different types of restarts and combinations of button pressing to no avail. From what I've seen online is that there isn't much of a fix but maybe I haven't looked hard enough.