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everybody's michael fisher with pocketnow.com you're probably wondering why I'm not in the sound booth like usual with the acoustic foam behind me and the gray pallor over everything and it's because what I have to show you today is too large to fit in the sound booth deal with that so you know by now that i bought a nokia lumia 920 today at the AT&T store and then i also unboxed the Nokia Lumia 810 so the AT&T store didn't have a wireless charging plate for me and I wanted to charge something wirelessly and I really really wanted awesome sound with my music while I did that so i picked up the JBL powerup sound dog and when I got home I had an email in my inbox letting me know that AT&T had mailed my free wireless charging plate because that's how it goes but this is very cool so we're going to take it out of the box we're going to see how it works with the Nokia Lumia 928 very briefly and you're going to get a sense of what this $300 accessory can do okay so while we still have some sunlight here why don't we take a look at what we actually have in the box of the JBL powerup box within a box the old trick this is not very elaborate packaging I'm just a bumbling fool two boxes sometimes wow this thing is heavy I don't know what the the actual specs are on the on the weight but that that is not a light device so that's the device himself we've got nicely compartmentalized series of cables here instruction manual oh and then adapter alright so when all said and done what comes in the box is the powerup dock itself and audio cable a power cable and some documentation around back here you'll notice some controls and some ports on the back of the unit on the left is the power on standby button is the DC in jack for the power cable which is plugged into the wall I just plugged that in as well as a service track which looks to be micro USB and an audio in jack for that audio cable we showed you I'm going to go ahead and press the power on standby button and when we press that power standby button we get a nice light display showing the landing zone where to put the phone and nice audio feedback that the unit is turned on and on the Lumia 920 which is the example device we're using we're going to go ahead and make sure bluetooth is turned on in the settings menu and we'll make sure that our NFC is turned down as well it's under tap and send in the settings which took me a second to find once we've confirmed that we just go ahead and tap the device in the landing zones we bring the device closer you notice the landing zone lights up which is very very nice the windows phone confirmation chime shows us that the unit is charging that's very nice now the units didn't pair automatically so I'm going to go ahead and activate manual pairing the Rio JBL powerup tells us that is connecting and we are connected and there's our confirmation ping and because we don't have any music on this device you have just going to hop back into the AT&T radio from ABC News there we are pistol diamond trolls he come down reelected and he said all along there's no physical feedback on the volume keys these appear to be either heat activated or capacitive keys able but they work quite well if they could tell way up and finally because the NFC connection is only needed for initial pairing and this is not dependent on a near field effect where we can take the Lumia 920 off of the dock and the broadcast is not interrupted finally you'll notice these play controls on the right hand side adjacent to the volume controls next to the NFC indicator these allow you to control the devices music player you can get reverse forward as far as track skipping and play and pause it does not function with the ABC radio app that excuse me it does not function with the AT&T radio app that we are using currently once we get this device synced with their music collection will be able to give this more of a thorough test drive we've still got some testing to do with the JBL powerup this is just a quick look as we said before but at its core this is a fairly simple product it is a speaker dock that is heavy that is big that delivers some pretty impressive sound and that lets you pair your Nokia Lumia 920 or your other Bluetooth enabled wireless phone pretty simply is it worth three hundred dollars well we're not sure yet check back with us in a few weeks once again I'm Michael with pocket now follow me on twitter at captain two phones follow pocket now on twitter and pocket now tweets visit us at pocketnow.com of course for a whole lot more coverage on nokia products windows phone products android iOS the whole bag that is pocketnow.com throw us a thumbs up here on the video if you like what you saw and thanks again for watching we'll see you next time