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A Colorful Change for Jambox

By ROY FURCHGOTT

While many have been wowed by the sound of Aliph's Jambox portable speaker, some may have been less impressed with the monochromatic look of its blue, silver, black or red cases.

But like fall foliage, the Jambox is about to burst forth with color â€" roughly one hundred color combinations, actually.

Starting on Aug. 28, you can design a customized Jambox by mixing any of nine cap colors with any of 13 grill colors. If the old blue-on-blue won't do, you can now have graphite and gold or lime and purple.

Just as with plain Jane Jamboxes, the customized models can connect to a tablet, phone, computer or music player by Bluetooth or wired through a 3.5mm jack. It claims 10 hours of sound from its rechargeable battery, and works as a speakerphone with a built-in speaker for calls through a linked phone.

The company said that the customized Jamboxes should take about ten days to get to buyers after purchase.

If you want to get an early start, there is are special advance purchase codes for Jambox's Facebook, Twitter and Klout fans. To get one, go to Twitter, search under “jambox,” and you will see that early buyers have posted links to their designs. On many of those you will see a code which you can reuse to order ahead of the official 28th launch. Borrowing a code to get in on the early deal is “totally legit,” assured a Jambox spokesperson.

If that's too much trouble, try this link which should have a code already in it.