Philips MCi5000 Streamium hi-fi: Because you hate iPhones

For those of you who want to hear more about the iPhone as much as you want to lick the inside of your shoe, we've got some infected fungus-free hi-fi news for you. Philips has unveiled its new hard disk-based micro system and we got to caress it yesterday.

The MCi5000 is a hi-fi compatible with the rest of the Philips Streamium range, so it'll pull music from your PC over a home network as well as from Streamium centres such as the WACS7500. But don't let that photo confuse you -- it's not actually made up of two separates; it's just one unit.

Inside is a 160GB hard disk (hoorah -- 80GB, nonsense!) and its wood-encased speakers gave us a fair wallop of sound when we listened to them in a darkened room yesterday. It'll also play Internet radio and music stored on USB -- and CDs, of course, but you got that, right?

It'll be on sale next month for about £500, but that'll drop £100 before Christmas, we're told. -Nate Lanxon