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hi I'm Wayne Cunningham here to show you I creations speak up now the speak up is a Bluetooth speaker system you can put this in your car it's kind of designed to fit in a car's cup holder and it's designed to look kind of like a travel mug I've brought a travel mug here to show the difference they're pretty much the same zeiten half inches tall which could be a little tall for some cars am I getting the way of your shifter or something like that but in the shape it should fit most now as a Bluetooth speaker it can play music from your bluetooth phone and also work as a hands-free phone system I've actually got my phone paired to it right now and without touching the phone I can play music answer phone calls got a microphone in it so I can talk to it and it also connect to voice command systems like Syria s on the samsung galaxy in the back here it's got these ports it's got a charging port micro USB this has a 20 hour looking my own battery in it so you can just leave it in your car you didn't have to plug it in for extended periods of time I also take it though tell rooms wherever you happen to be traveling and use it as the Bluetooth speaker it's also got an auxiliary output right here so you can plug this directly into your car's exit or input or maybe home stereo if you want to broadcast the sound through a larger sound system the controls for the speak up sit on top here you've got this ring for raising or lowering the volume of the music this side stops the music this side plays the music the site answers the phone so if I hit this it's now playing the music that I have streaming from my phone these buttons will skip music back and forth but the really interesting thing is actually has gesture control with some sensors here I can wave my hand across to make the music either skip back or skip forward or if I have an incoming phone call I can wave my hand across to answer the phone pushing the center of this activates siri-like so play artist frightened rabbit and it starts playing the music I asked for can also use that for navigation placing phone calls anything and it be convenient if there's sitting in the car and the cup holder near me I could just press down at it a couple things I'm not crazy about the controls on the speak up by of this sitting in my cup holder I reached down to change the volume by turning this well I either have to use two hands to keep it in place or it's just going to turn all all around the power switch is on the bottom here so I don't want to keep this turned on all the time every time I get in or out of the car I have to lift this out of the cup holder reach down here pull the switch on or off like so but I do like the sound quality that comes out of this device it's got a little dome here to make the sound radiate outwards so they'll come out of these ports it this is a pretty full sound decent bass but it is only a single speaker so you won't get stereo sound out of this it's good but not as good as a decent home storage system or even a bookshelf system at one hundred thirty dollars the speak up is kind of pricey but it is a high quality bluetooth speaker and phone system you can take it pretty much anywhere in the car hotel room traveling in the home I'm Wayne Cunningham and you can read the full review of the I creation speak up on cnet