Reviews for JBL Flip Portable Bluetooth Stereo Speaker - Black

My husband bought me the JBL Flip speaker for Christmas and right up to just last week I loved it! Absolutely no problems, great sound, etc. But on Monday, March 18, 2013 it decided to quit working with my iPad after about 1 1/2 minutes of play time. At first I thought it was just the Bluetooth connection so I disconnected the Bluetooth and tethered it to the iPad with a belkin cable. It did the exact same thing over and over again with the Bluetooth connected or not! We sent an email to JBL asking for help and their so called experts told us that we had to turn up the volume on the iPad and only control the sound by the FLIP! Seriously! Even though we knew that this was probably untrue we tried it and of course we were right it was and it didn't work! I know this is not an Apple product but we did buy it from the Apple store and it kind of makes me lose faith in your external product endorsements! I am not sure what to do next?? Can somebody help me out?? Any ideas??

I've had this product about a month and while it seem to work okay at first, now the Bluetooth connection continually cuts off after about a minute or two. I'm sure this is a problem of the JBL Flip speaker because 1) my other speakers work well with connected to the same phone, and 2) other reviewers have mentioned the same problem. Too bad because like other reviewers I am impressed by the sound quality.

The Bluetooth would only synch with iPod5 and not accept iPad 2nd generation nor the iPhone 4. The other problem was songs and audiobooks would skip while playing even when the Flip was less than 10 ft away from from the iPod. There is a video review on Youtube made recently that shows the skip problem. I am returning this product and contacting JBL about the problems.