If you are looking for a cheap, good overall radio to go on travel or to offer to your friends or family, this is very nice. It's not perfect however...
Take a look below ...
FM Reception: 9/10. Very good reception, and FM is stereo via the earphone jack.
RDS Display: n/a
MW Reception: 6/10. Not so sensitive. Will receive stations, but there's a lot of noise.
LW Reception: n/a
SW Reception: 6/10. Will pull some stations, but it's not a DX monster.
Air Band: n/a
HF Amateur bands: n/a
VHF/UHF Amateur bands: n/a
CB Band: n/a
Rechargeable Battery: Use a rechargeable Nokia type battery. It's quite common but i'd prefer to have AA or AAA batteries. Battery life is very good.
Speaker sound quality: 9/10. a big WOW ! Sound is amazing, and the strong selling point of this radio. Powerful, clear, bassy sound.
Ease of use: 8/10. Very easy to use for a digital radio.
Preset memories: 7/10. Lots of space to store the stations.
MP3 Player: n/a
Bluetooth: n/a
Aux input: Yes. You can plug an external device via the 3.5 mm jack, or use the integrated mic to make some recordings on the SD card.
Solar panel: n/a
Record on SD card: 9/10. Yes ! This is a very good feature. Can record in 3 different qualities, but you can hear some degradation even at the highest (128 kbps) quality. That's for FM. For AM recordings, that's mostly sufficient.
My last thoughts:
I warmly recommend this radio, for those who :
- Want to have a very good MP3/FM Radio to lie around in the office/bathroom/garden shed.
- Want to bring a competent fm/mw/mp3 radio on holidays but who don't intend to use it as a DX monster
- Want to record AM/FM broadcasts on a SD cards
- Want to make a cheap gift which will please most peoples !
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