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hey I'm Matthew Muscovy AK from C net and we're going to take a look at the Logitech UE smart radio this is a Wi-Fi radio with a built in battery and it's currently selling for a hundred and eighty dollars the UE smart radio is a nice looking compact music system that's going to be most at home and a bedroom a kitchen or a dent navigation is focused around its smallish 2.4 inch color display and you spin and press the large knob on the front to go through menus which kind of makes it feel like an old-school iPod now the menus are considerably simpler than Logitech's Squeezebox products that preceded this and it generally only takes a couple of clicks to get music playing it supports quite a few streaming music services including Spotify Pandora Rhapsody MOG Sirius XM slacker Last FM and tune in you can also play your own personal music collection provided that you're running the UE music library server on your Mac or PC the server works well enough but it would have been nice if the smart radio supported one of the cloud music services offered by Amazon or Google so you wouldn't have to leave a PC running turn the smart radio around and you'll see there's a built-in handle on the back that makes a lot of sense because a smart radio has a built-in six hour battery which makes it easy to carry from room to room without having to lug the AC adapter also on the back is an Ethernet port and a mini jack audio input plus there's a headphone jack on the side the smart radio also has built-in Wi-Fi so you don't need a wired connection you can also control the UE smart radio using your smart phone and there's an app available for both Android and iOS it's a simple slick looking app and the radio is very responsive when you're making adjustments the only catch is that the app can't stream music stored on your phone so you'll need to have your own songs stored on the computer if you want to stream them sound quality is really pretty impressive overall there's only one speaker so it's mono only but it still sounds great with a variety of genres from hard rock to jazz or classical bass response is surprisingly good for a little speaker you're not going to get super deep bass like on a large system but it always sounds musical and it rarely distorts even when you crank the volume the big question with the UE radio is whether you want to stand alone Wi-Fi radio like this or if you'd be better off with a Bluetooth speaker Bluetooth speakers have some advantages they don't need Wi-Fi access so you can take them to the beach or a tailgate party where you're not going to have Wi-Fi they can also play music from any app you have on your phone so you don't have to wait for an update from Logitech to listen to your favorite new audio service and Bluetooth speakers are typically a little bit cheaper with logitech's own bluetooth wireless speaker coming in at a hundred and twenty dollars so while the UE smart radio is a pretty great compact home audio system and it's nice that you can use it without your phone you're going to want to make sure it's the best choice for your own listening habits I'm Matthew moscovia for CNET and this is the Logitech UE smart radio