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hello I'm the Westway for CNET here at CES 2013 in Las Vegas taking a look at the Phillips stand this time we're examining the a3 it looks like a nice little wireless speaker okay so we've got quite nice diamond-shaped design here unlike this aluminium finish on top and you get this rather nice sultry black canvas II approach around the sides it looks quite good for a speaker that's quite modestly priced it's a 30 watt speaker it has wireless music playback over Wi-Fi unfortunately that's not Apple's own airplay system but instead you're going to use Philips own app to wirelessly transmit your tunes the app works on iOS or Android if you're a Windows Phone user then the app isn't available but I have been told you can have some success getting your music playing anyway because the speak has DLNA built-in I've had a quick go at the app it seems reasonably easy to use but it remains to be seen whether or not it's easier just to plug your smartphone or laptop or whatever into the speaker and play over a cable so I like the size of this speaker it's quite slender is quite small it's not one of these enormous affairs that's going to hog your living room and mess up your feng shui it costs two hundred and fifty dollars or thereabouts and it's going to be coming out in June stay tuned for the full review I'm Luke Westerosi net and this is the Philips Fidelio a3