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hey everybody Josh here for Android Authority and I wanted to show you all the forests play-fi wireless speaker this has just recently shipped to me and when you look at it it basically looks like Forrest is trying to become a competitor against Sonos primarily in the wireless speaker space for your home that you can control using your Android device looking at the design of the forest play-fi speaker you'll see that it's kind of like an oval-shaped cone that comes up into a soft tip right up here at the top nothing pointed but certainly in oval shaped and this 360-degree speaker design so sound should be coming out from all sides or one big side rather because there's not any side on this curvature looking at the front of the speaker you've got a nice forest logo it's very understated right here you have a Bluetooth button and a Wi-Fi button to tell the speaker where it's going to be communicating either over your wireless network or directly to the Bluetooth on a phone right here you have a power button of volume down and a volume up and then we have this kind of rubberized grip e material right here for s promises that you can dock and charge your phone at the same time and while they're technically true and saying that it's a little bit deceptive and how they're actually getting there yes you can put a phone or a tablet here and a phone will sit right nice in there but if you look closely you'll see that there is actually no charging port but when you flip over to the back of the of the speaker you'll see that there's a USB port right here what force ended up doing is they included a USB to microUSB and a USB to mini-usb cable so if you want to charge your device while it's actually resting on the speaker you have to have a cable coming from the back to the front which means that most likely your phone is going to have to be horizontal instead of standing straight up like you see so many high devices on their docks flipping back to the back of the device there is the requisite power port right there for AC adapter a microUSB port a USB port this is a reset button right here you see they're all nice buttons down here or labels down here pardon and then this is what appears to be jack a three a millimeter jack I have not had the opportunity to set this up yet so I don't have any audio samples for you live on camera but I will when I put out my full review also just because of where I'm located in doing this you need to have an AC adapter plugged into a wall for this to be powered which is another sort of deceptive thing in all of the marketing materials in the pictures on the box it shows this beautiful speaker just sitting there like that with a phone resting on top of it and unfortunately there needs to be a cable running out of the back to charge the phone if you want to do that and there needs to be another cable running out of the back if you want to actually power the device so just some things to keep in mind otherwise that is the forest play fie speaker they promise lossless audio over Wi-Fi which is supposed to be a big deal I will be even you might in depth thoughts and opinions on the quality of the speaker once I get it set up and use it for an extended amount of time but thank you for tuning in to my hands-on of the forest play-fi wireless speaker