Personal AM/FM Pocket Radio Portable VR-robot, Mini Digital Tuning Radio, with Rechargeable Battery, Earphone, Lock Screen for Walk/Jogging/Gym/Camping

For well under twenty bucks, you can't expect much, right? Not the case with this little jewel! Somebody really did their homework when they designed this. The buttons are well laid out, the LCD is bright and clear, and the reception is as good as radios costing far more. After only five minutes, I'd auto scanned in all the AM and FM stations and had locked into memory all the ones I wanted to use. And using only a few button pushes allows updating the memory in seconds. Connecting this to an amplified speaker or a pair of headphones gives you amazingly clear stereo FM with loads of separation. Even the AM band was surprisingly sensitive, pulling in all the local stations as well as some from further away. Plus, it recharges very quickly from any USB port. This is a masterpiece of miniaturization along with sturdy construction and terrific function.

I am a senior citizen and have used various Walkman radios for decades on my daily walks. My favorite Sony Walkman has been discontinued, and I decided to try this radio. I was really surprised at the performance of this radio. It is about the same height of a credit card and around ½ inch wide. It fits easily into a t-shirt pocket. The sound is excellent. I have not used the earbuds that came with the radio. Instead, I used my inexpensive on-ear lightweight Panasonic headphones (RP-HT21). So I am not rating the earbuds. I live in a metro area, but one of my presets is an NPR station 30 miles away in another state. The reception for all my pre-set stations is great. Not sure about reception in a rural or remote area. The radio looks expensive and is well made and professional. The instructions are complete but are not well written in English. However, the instructions are OK with a little perseverance. This radio appears to be a bargain for the price. I have had my radio for only two weeks, and I am hoping that it will prove durable in spite of the price. Added nine months later: I have two of these radios & both are durable with no problems or issues.

Works pretty good it's worth the money

I initially received an empty package on my first delivery. After I contacted Amazon, they promptly sent out a replacement, and I finally got the radio. I was concerned about its size, thinking it might be low quality, but once I powered it on, I was pleasantly surprised by the clear and loud sound. It easily picked up both AM and FM stations without any issues. Overall, it turned out to be a great purchase for a compact handheld radio.

The FM reception was acceptable and I used the radio for 1-2 hours about twice a week. The earphones failed after a few weeks, but I had alternates so that was no big deal. But today, the display just went blank and reception ceased. Tomorrow will be the end of the seventh week of ownership.

As others have stated, this is not useable as an AM Radio. While trying to tune, 7 to 8 channels are skipped with each press of the tune button. For example, I needed 640 AM. The channels available to tune were 630, 639, and 648. None of the channels in between were available. Otherwise it seemed "fine". Using the memory keys was not intuitive but I did figure it out after a while. My goal was to use this to listen to football while attending game in person. I opted for a manually tuned analog radio instead. It doesn't save presets and is not rechargeable, but it get 37 hours on 2 AA batteries.

No matter the photos on the product page, but when I first held this raid, I was surprised how small it is. It is small than many MP3 players of 20 years ago. Living in a big city, automatic presets filled up pretty quickly leaving out my favorite stations. I had to manually delete a lot of presets one by one and then set them up individually one by one. Took about 15 minutes to setup. I should have known and not used the automatic presets. This device does NOT have blue tooth capability. I connected this to a blue tooth player using a male-male audio cable. The setup works fine, but I have to remember to turn both of them off to prevent battery drainage. Battery lasts quite long, even though I haven't measured. Sound quality is not great - but in my setup a lot depends on the speaker's quality and the cable quality. Still, I found that the radio stations with this device sound inferior to music played via my phone using blue tooth connection. I am not quite sure if the inferior radio sound is attributable to the device. I definitely recommend this radio.

The radio is small and can be easily be placed in shirt pocket or pants pocket. I mainly use it to listen to talk radio. It gets good reception in my area particularly since it has no external antenna. Battery life is long between charges. I listen to it for hours on a single charge. A feature I like is, it has a lock button that will lock in the radio station and the volume when in use, particularly during activities . Overall I am very pleased with this mini receiver.