Logitech Squeezebox Touch Wi-Fi music streamer

Sound offering with pictureframe pretensions

Logitech has done an excellent job with the touch-screen UI which is smooth, fast and reliable. Finger strokes up and down the screen immediately set lists scrolling with a nicely judged amount of virtual momentum, while even the lightest of taps always gets the proper response. Repeated screen strokes will move you through lists letter-by-letter in a manner familiar to any iPod owner.

Font sizes enlarge when the remote is used, to aid distance viewing

The basic menu layout will similarly be familiar to anyone who has ever used a Squeezebox device and makes for straightforward access to even the largest music library helped by full ID3 tag support. In fact, it looks like a scaled up landscape version of the menu used by the Duet remote, which is no bad thing.

Logitech doesn't specify the exact resolution or dot pitch of the screen but it's pleasently colourful, clear, bright and crisp. The unit also has an ambient light sensor to ensure the brightness is always in keeping with the surroundings. Use the remote control and the Touch draws the conclusion that you must be standing a few feet away, so it increases the size of the fonts and icons on the screen. While the IR remote itself is a little low-rent, it does the job.