PowerBear Portable Radio | AM/FM, 2AA Battery Operated | Long Range Reception for Indoor, Outdoor & Emergency Use | Radio with Speaker & Headphone Jack (Black)

I take this cute little radio to the gym and listen through earphones while I'm on the treadmill or stationary bike. The reception and sound are good. It's small and easy to carry around. It didn't cost much, so if it does get broken or lost it won't be a big deal. I like it!

Recently I realized that we had no portable radio and there are times that I just want to listen to the radio. After checking on line I came across this great little product (Power Bear Portable Radio: AM/FM, 2 AA battery operated with long range reception for indoor, outdoor and emergency use, radio with speaker and headphone) on Amazon for a bargain price. I immediately bought it and was impressed with the quick delivery service. After putting the 2 AA batteries in the radio it worked great. I am very pleased with the sound and am happy with my purchase. Rating: 5 Stars. Joseph J. Truncale (Author: Haiku Moments: How to read, write and enjoy Haiku)

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I bought the Powerbear radio last week, and have been using it everyday...probably a total of 30 hours of listening while in the garden, and moving it around with me, from area to area as I was weeding my plants. Nothing has broken yet :) and so far, battery life is good with cheap batteries...I mean 30 hours and the cheap dollar store batteries are still going strong. I am impressed with the reception of this Powerbear radio. Reception is probably the main thing I look for in a small radio, because my favorite station has a weak signal and their transmitter is 50 miles away. This inexpensive radio picks up this station better than most radios I own, and I own a lot of them. The antenna seems to move smoothly and does it's job. This powerbear has a striking resemblance to the Sony ICF-S10MK2 (an excellent radio in most all aspects, which is now discontinued and very expensive to buy a NOS or a nice used one), but the replacement model (Sony ICFP26) is just as good, but is twice the price of the Powerbear. The rest of my Powerbear review will be comparing it to the Sonys. The Powerbear came packaged in a sturdy and fancy box, which I was surprised at, because of it's price point. The ICFP26 came it cheap packaging that isn't likely to protect it during shipping, depending on how Amazon packs your items. The ICF-S10MK2, if you find an unopened one, comes it a plastic blister pack, and it well protected. For my use, the the two big pluses about the Powerbear is, it has better reception then the Sonys and the Powerbear has the capability of louder volume. OK, now the things about the Powerbear that are seemingly of less quality than the Sonys. 1. The Sound quality is "tinny", no Bass sounds at all, so if you prefer to listen to music, you may be disappointed. The very treble-like audio is just fine for me, and MAYBE EVEN BETTER if you listen to talk radio like I do. The Station I listen to is all Talk, and I find that voices are more easily understood, than with the Sonys that I own. 2. The Volume control dial feels flimsy, but for now, it is working just fine. Maybe it'll last a long time? I hope so. The on-off part of the dial does have a nice click, so that part feels OK. 3. The AM-FM switch also feels flimsy. Again, it is working fine for now. 4. The frequency indicator leaves a lot to be desired, as mentioned in many other reviews. Some reviews stated their indicator wasn't visible or just not moving when dial is turned. I guess I might be lucky, the indicator on mine moves fine and is easy to see. BUT, it could have been better "zero'd in" at the factory, although the amount that it's off, isn't a major problem. I haven't used the earphone jack. I hope this review helps you out.

After it arrived, I realized just how cheaply made this product was. Honestly, it's more like a $3.99 radio. It looks like it could smash to pieces from a slight fall. The controls/wheels/sliders are not smooth, where the dial for changing stations is very rough to the point where it's immensely difficult and often impossible to pinpoint an exact station because it requires a smooth scroll to keep it in that exact spot without hitting the next station up or down, as well as the control slider for the AM/FM that is so rough I fear if I used daily it would definitely break, like it's rough and getting stuck every time you slide it. You can barely even see the gauge move in the clear plastic section when you change stations where it indicates just where you are on the numbers scale, as often I have to go where there is sunlight coming in from the window just to see where it is. Would it have killed them to make this a neon, white, or bright red color instead of the dull one that it is? The antenna does feel like it's not designed to stay on for very long, and when that comes off, the radio is basically useless. I ordered this at the same time I ordered a portable NOAA radio, which I assembled and tried first, and after going through all the stations on it and making a list of what I get so I could put some in the favorites function, one of those was my favorite station. Then when I went to THIS radio, I barely even picked up the station to the point where rolling the dial at first did not even pick it up. I then had to go to the other radio to see what was playing on my favorite station which came in very loud and clear on that one, on a radio that's even cheaper $$ than this one, and then slowly dial my way through a lot of staticy stations just to find that song and then try to move the dial back and forth to get it to come in semi-clear. It finally came in, but it's not as clear as others. This is disturbing because this is a very local radio station on which every other radio I've ever had for 20 years lets it come in loud and clear, and only on this one does it come in as though it's 60 miles away. Ridiculous. The only reason I got this radio was because the reviews said the batteries would last weeks, whereas the portable NOAA that I wanted to use for when hurricanes hit had reviews that said the batteries died after a day. I then decided I would use the NOAA only during hurricanes, not leaving it on for alerts, and putting in the batteries when the hurricane hits and turning it off when I'm not listening. I don't need a radio that would not take a whole lot of batteries away from my stock so that I could at least listen to music all day during the boring hurricane week with power out, and I picked THIS one only for that reason!!! Now that I know my favorite local radio station that comes in perfectly fine on every other radio is coming in on this one like it's a foreign station, I know I made a poor choice. It's just ridiculously cheaply made radio and the antenna could be WAY better reception-wise across the board on all stations, not just a few. I thought I made a good purchase after research, because I really want a small one like this and not a big one and not one with a crank and a battery inside that will wind up dying after two years anyway just like cell phone batteries. The description and pictures make this look more high-quality than it really is. This is one of the most lightweight pieces of junk I ever owned, and that includes one that I got from a bank for opening up an account. This is really flea market quality. When radios that cost less than this pick up stations loud and clear and this one can't, it's time to return it & look for something else.

I purchased two of these strictly for an emergency kit and actual use should be minimal. The radio is small and lightweight but a tad big for a standard shirt or pants pocket and doesn't have a belt clip. AM/FM stations seem to come in good. The AM/FM switcher button mechanically feels broken but works and is the same on both radios so isn't broke and just cheap. The antenna is really fragile and I suspect it will break off if used 6 or less times. The radio enclosure itself feels like a childs toy and is not going to survive anything other than gentle and occasional use. You are literally getting what you pay for here. I have a good AM/FM radio as my goto but wanted these as emergency backups and that's about all they will be.

So hard to find a radio with spinning volume and station dials! And receives very well! All the inexpensive radios today have those little push buttons which scan the station's digitally which are slow and really annoying. You really want to have one of the little old style turn dials like this radio has so you can instantly scan stations with your thumb and stop where you want and move again quickly. This radio has that. It also has the same kind of a spinning dial for the volume and the on and off which is combined. So that makes on/off and volume control easier as well. It also receives really well even when the antenna is in the fully stored position. I use it in a car instead of leaving the key turned on and draining the car battery. It just really works well and has lasted months on the same batteries. It's fairly loud which I was surprised at. Just all around a great radio. But it's just SO nice to have a manual spinning station dial that you can work quickly with your thumb. Get it.

I gave it my daughter so we could listen to baseball. We used it for the first time to listen to the game when John Sterling died. Great to hear all his old home run calls in the tribute.

Es sencillo de usar. Tiene buena recepción y buena calidad de sonido. Me gustó para tenerlo en movhila de emergencia.

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PowerBear Portable Radio AM/FM, 2AA Battery... Price was good, delivered ahead of schedule. Sound was less tinny than on some of the portable radios I have had. AM Reception, even in daytime seems better than usual, which is surprising given the small size of its internal AM antenna. FM is better than the radio I usually use for comparison. FM is monaural even on headphones, as expected. The FM antenna only swivels in one axis. It is stiff enough that it stays where you put it. This was purchased to replace a radio given away in the last "crisis" around here, but next time I might keep this one and give away a different radio.

Very good product and good transistor

Buscava um rádio compacto, com material de qualidade e realmente o Power Bear superou minhas expectativas. Sintoniza todas as estações e o som é limpo. Além do mais é muito bonitinho. Valeu a pena.