Wireless portable speakers - airplay or bluetooth?

Hello everybody
Could you recommend based on your practical experience portable stereo speakers to stream audio from iphone or ipad? These speakers would be used around home 99% of the case and while they can be plugged to a power plug I'd rather have an option with battery because I'd like to have an option to take them on a trip and do not want to deal with different power/voltage problems.
Fiest of all - if only audio streaming is required, would be Bluetooth sufficient? I do care about the sound quality.
Budget is no more than $200. Based on that I've identified two possible candidates:
iHome iW3 AirPlay Rechargeable Wireless Audio System - Black
http://store.apple.com/us/product/H9510VC/A/ihome-iw3-airplay-rechargeable-wirel ess-audio-system-black
Logitech UE Mobile Boombox Bluetooth Speaker and Speakerphone
http://store.apple.com/us/product/H9873VC/A/logitech-ue-mobile-boombox-bluetooth -speaker-and-speakerphone?fnode=3f&fs=s%3DtopRated%26m.tsOtherFeatures%3Dbluetoo th
Do you have an experience owning them? If yes, could you share it?
Thanks in advance.

Bluetooth and WIFI Airplay are both very good quality audio.  You'll be more limited by the speakers in the device, than you are the two interfaces.
I like WIFI-Airplay for home, more versatile and better range.
I like bluetooth for traveling, because I don't have to worry about having a working WIFI network.  But really this works fine for home as well.  Bluetooth really is more versatile.

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