Altec Lansing inMotion Max iPhone speaker

All the remote control functions with the exception of the radio pre-sets are duplicated on the unit itself in the form of a strip of backlit touch-sensitive buttons along the top. It's a nice looking design but the buttons are too sensitive, resulting in a fair bit of unintended activation should you move the device while it's switched on.

The remote's small but very usable

A small yet clear 40mm amber LED screen displays the RDS radio information or the artist and title of the track being played by your iPod or iPhone.

Most of the controls are replicated on the main unit

The iMT702 is fully iPhone compliant so when your phone rings the music pauses and your ring tone plays through the speakers, and all without any interference from the cellular radio. All well and good, but we think Altec missed a trick by not fitting a microphone and a call switch to make the iMT702 a fully fledged speakerphone. The unit will also spring to life of a morning at the command of your iPod or iPhone's alarm.

The iMT702 fully supports the iPhone too

Though the inMotion has four 2in speakers only two of them are active and together they produce 16W of power. Granted, that's not a huge amount but the unit still proved capable of generating a reasonably loud noise that was well balanced, clear, crisp and nicely detailed. We also found the bass to surprisingly firm given the size of the speakers.