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>> Hi, I'm Kent German, Senior Editor here at CNET.com. Today, we're taking a First Look at the Motorola EQ5 portable wireless speakers. It's a cell phone speaker from Motorola that you can use it to listen to music, but you can also use it for a few other functions as well. The design looks a lot like the Motorola Rokr E8 and that's not really a big surprise. Moto is really trying to push these two devices together, say the speaker is a good accompaniment to the Rokr E8. The Rokr E8 of course is a music phone, so if you're gonna be playing your music outside the headphones, you -- the cell phone speaker is not a bad idea. The design is very straight forward. You see you just have the two speakers on either side and the center is just the Motorola logo. Also you have a couple of volume buttons up here, as well. Down here in the bottom we have Play/Pause, then Fast Forward and Rewind buttons, so it is kind of unusual that you can control the music on the phone using the Bluetooth speaker. Here on the top you have a calling button. What you can do with that is you can press the button, you can access your Contacts menu, you can go through it to call someone simply by just touching the speaker, again you don't have to use the phone or you can actually reject calls on this device as well. There is no caller ID, but once a call comes through and you look in your phone, maybe you don't wanna talk to that person, you can just press either of these buttons down here and hold down, so, pretty user-friendly features. Here on the side you do have a 3.5 mm jack, so you can connect to an MP3 player. And here on the side, there's a Micro USB port that is used for the charger. You can charge this device with the same charger as you would with the Rokr E8. One thing I really like about this speaker is it does have a little kick stand, so you can fall that back like that and just place it on the desk. That makes it great for propping it up on a surface, so the sound is facing up in a way. So that's a really nice feature. Once we pair it together, it's very easy. You just have to activate the music player on the phone, and press that. And I found the sound quality okay. It did really would like it to be a little louder actually, even when we press all the way up on the volume on the phone and all the way up on the speaker, we found that it really wasn't that loud. Also the sound was tiniest bit tinny, but I like the design as well. I'm Kent German and this is the Motorola EQ E5 portable wireless speaker. ^M00:02:05 [ Music ]
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Motorola EQ5 portable wireless speaker Review
The good: The Motorola EQ5 portable wireless speakers have an attractive design, well-designed controls, and some unique, easy-to-use features.
The bad: The volume level on the Motorola EQ5 portable wireless speakers could be louder. Also, we had difficulty with the voice commands feature.
The bottom line: The Motorola EQ5 portable wireless speakers aren't perfect but they're a solid accompaniment to a Motorola Rokr cell phone.
Motorola EQ5 portable wireless speaker Specs
Manufacturer: Motorola
Part number: EQ5
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