A little concerned how the fabric covering is going to hold up. It would be nice if literature offered instructions on how to clean fabric covering. Heck, it would have been nice to have USABLE LITERATURE. Why in the world would you go to the expense to include a pamphlet that has the lightest shade of gray against a white background and smallest print possible? There is no user friendly manual and when you click on their MANUALS AND DOWNLOADS link on the JBL's Flip 3 webpage, you get nothing. Surely, JBL can do better than this. Listen to your customers, I've seen this complaint re: Flip 3 posted before.

If you can find the Flip 1 or 2 buy one of those instead, I was so happy with the Flip 1 and 2 that I bought everyone that is close to me one as gift. Never a single issue or problem. The Flip 3 on the other hand is truly the worst to date. Doesn't hold a charge, constantly turns off, doesn't work when directly plugged into a wall outlet, when the battery is low the sound gets so distorted that you have to turn it off. I'm so frustrated and disappointed with the Flip 3 that I had to write this review especially after seeing my friends Flip 3 doing exactly he same thing mine was doing. If you wanna go through what I've been going through buy one.

iv owned this speaker for 4-5 years and it exceeded all my expectations in every way, the battery finally failed after years of constent use and abuse and there wasn't even a second thought i went and bought a new flip 5 and im still using the 3 as a laptop speaker just gota keep it plugged now