Dab+/Dab/FM Digital Radio, Portable Solar Radio with Crank, 5000mAh Rechargeable Battery, LCD Display, USB Port, Headphone Jack, Flashlight, SOS, Mono/Stereo for Camping – Yellow

This is a great little DAB+/ FM radio and well worth the money, compact, easy to use with several charging options and when it is fully charged it will run a long time before it needs to be a recharged. This is perfect for travelling, camping and 100% reliable during power cuts and outages, a torch, reading light and alarm.

This is an excellent little radio, great for listening to whilst gardening. A charge overnight keeps it going all day probably aided by the solar panel too.

I read all the various reviews , good and bad then decided to give this radio a try. After unpacking and reading instructions, I put radio with solar panel up into direct sunlight. This is English winter sunlight so not very bright. Radio battery immediately started charging, which was impressive. I then tried the wind up charger. And that worked too. The torch lights and reading light all worked well. Although I think these lights are unnecessary. I avoided using the alarm button ,which again I think isn’t necessary. Tuning the radio is a bit of a hassle, but once you have your favourite stations saved it’s pretty easy to use. DAB reception is good and far better than the radio it replaced. FM was fine too. I never tried the short wave so can’t comment. The sound quality is amazing, and can be turned down to a whisper for night time listening. The radio itself isn’t big , but not stupidly small either. All the buttons are a good size. Radio feels like good quality, however is definitely not water proof as water would get through speaker vent if it got wet. I used the radio for around two weeks and was really happy with it. It charged itself up each day ready for use in the evening. As the weather was very cloudy the radio didn’t fully charge, so I decided to put some triple AAA batteries in for back up. The instructions said the radio would switch over from solar battery to AAA automatically when solar battery was low. Unfortunately it didn’t, and just shut down when solar battery was low. There is no switch to this manually either. The solar battery would charge with an external charger, but I wanted it to work with all power options. Unfortunately this meant I had to return this lovely radio to Amazon. I really would have liked a replacement instead of a refund , but this isn’t an option. I wish the manufacturer would design another version of this radio , one without the torch , reading light , phone charger etc. I really wonder if all this extra stuff is causing the radio to be unreliable? I am still thinking of ordering a replacement as I liked it so much .

Fantastic portable wind up radio, light weight and torch light great.

Good points: - Picks up all the local DAB, DAB+ & FM stations around me. - Sound quality is reasonable given the small speaker size. - Headphone output sounds like it is Stereo, but no indication on screen what stations are in Stereo. - Easy enough to tune. Need to hold a button before you access or store a pre-set but that's easy enough when you get used to it. LED lights & LED torch are also reasonable. - Battery life is brilliant. Ran for over 20 hours with DAB radio at 25% volume. - The battery is easily replaced as well, being a common 21700 lithium cell, so plus points for long term repairability. - Charges on micro USB connector. Not the quickest at charging but fine for the use case it has. Tested the 3xAAA battery backup by pulling the main lithium cell and it automatically went on to use the AAA batteries, so this radio will always work as long as you have AAA cells to hand. Shame the battery cover for the lithium cell is held in place with a small tri-wing screw rather than a simple 000 pozi screw. Not quite so good: Tried the crank and it seems to be charging the lithium battery but very slowly. It'll get the radio going in an emergency. It's not like Trevor Baylis's original Baygen/Freeplay wind up radio (using a clockwork mainspring) which would run for about 50 mins on 60 turns of the handle. The solar panel on this radio is very much a token gesture and might help keep the battery in condition to prevent natural discharge over time, but it'll need to be in cloudless direct sunlight for days to stand any chance of charging the battery to any real extent. No obvious way to select Mono on a weak Stereo FM signal to reduce hiss and no indication within DAB if a station is Mono or Stereo. 5V USB output drops to 3.5V when using the radio in DAB Mode. I'd suggest switching the radio off if you need to use the USB output to charge a phone in an emergency. With radio completely off (not in standby) it'll supply 4.94v @ 0.51A (tested with a USB power monitor) so it is capable of slowly charging a phone. The top set of LED lights you might use to read a book with, does have a slight flicker when the radio is on in time with the music. Could probably do with a bigger capacitor inside that supplies power to the LEDs to mitigate that flicker when the radio is on. Might think of doing that mod myself if there's any spare space inside the case. The biggest gripe with the radio, the red siren button! It's too easy to accidentally press it. Could have been better hidden as a slider switch under the rubber charging cover perhaps? Siren isn't that loud but still makes you jump if you accidentally press the button. The tiny flashing red LED is very much a token gesture. Suggestion to the manufacturer! Can you make a similar radio to this, but also include MW, LW & SW bands and with a bigger solar panel & better hand crank? The UK still has a few MW (AM) stations, BBC Radio 4 is still on 198kHz Long Wave (for now) and if there really was a disaster, you would want Short Wave coverage too in the one radio. Whilst I have another radio for SW, having it in this form factor would have been ideal. Overall, happy with purchase.

Do not buy this product. Within 9 months the type c input charging point broke so I had to resort to using AAA batteries. I put in three brand new, fully charged AAA batteries, they didn’t work so I tried again with another set of new AAA batteries and they don’t work! Solar charging is minimal so the radio is totally useless now. Don’t waste your money.

Excellent product. Radio reception is perfect, the feature content makes it a really useful device with internal battery, option to add additional batteries, and charge it from the mains, by hand or using the solar panel. These combined with the charging ports for other devices and built in flashlight make it perfect for camping or emergency use

Lots of functions- light. Reading light. Good radio reception and sound quality. Shame about the solar panel which is a joke, despite been in full sun seems to add nothing to the battery so device needs plugging in every couple of days.

es como se describe, muy buen producto

Bella con la sua aria sportiva, ottima da portare nelle escursioni domenicali...naturalmente non nello zaino ma su un fuoristrada!

İstanbulda 8 dab+ yayını aldı. Fm kanalları anten açmadan çekiyor. Sos sesi güçlü, fener ışığı yeterli

La radio fonctionne très bien en DAB+ et en FM. La grosse lampe latérale éclaire très bien et la petite lampe est pratique pour lire quelque chose dans le noir. Le paneau solaire est fort petit et ne peut pas réellement charger la batterie, ou alors en plusieurs jours (voir semaines) Il peut tout au plus maintenir la charge. La manivelle pourrait un jour vous dépanner, mais dans la pratique elle servira assez rarement. La sirène est assez puissante, je l'ai actionnée en pleine nuit en voulant allumer la lampe! Ça surprend bien, surtout la première fois (éviter pour les personnes cardiaques!) Je doute fort de l'utilité réelle de cette sirène, mais le bouton devrait être clairement séparé des autres. Je n'ai pas testé l'étanchéité. Cette radio peut fonctionner avec sa batterie intégrée ou avec 3 piles AAA, elle peut donc convenir comme radio de secours.

After opening the box, I put 3 AAA batteries in the radio and switched it on to test its features. The built-in battery indicated 1/4 capacity. Without any charging the radio played for over 12 hours (of which 4 hours with the main flashlight on to fasten up the process of draining the battery). Only then the display showed "Battery low" and the power-LED started flashing green/red for some 20 minutes followed by flashing red. In this state most of the buttons become unresponsive (the POWER-button continued to have effect, but I could not switch off the flashlight). Shortly after that with no action from my part the LED turns green again and the battery indicator shows 2/4. The radio has now switched from the built-in rechargable battery to the 3 AAA batteries I installed at the start of the test and all is well again. The small speaker works fine for this kind of radio. The alarm works as expected as does the sleep timer. The user manual is reasonably well written. Setup and operation with 7 buttons (5 of which have a second function using long press) is fairly straightforward. The 3 buttons for the lights are on the right side of the radio and also work with the radio switched off. The flashlight and the reading light have HI and LO settings. The SOS-button starts an loud siren and flashes a red LED. I did not test the solar panel - a few square centimeters of solar panel cannot be expected to add much energy (as the manual admits). The dynamo-crank is a bit flimsy but it works (and enables you to use the unresponsive buttons in low battery conditions). The manual states cranking supplies 300..350 mA and the solar panel 30..50 mA. Compare this to small USB-chargers that typically deliver 1,000 mA. While recharging the power-LED is red. Charging from fully empty took some 10 hours before the power-LED turned green to indicate full charge. Given the price you should not expect a radio that withstands rough handling - handle it with some care, don't drop it and it will serve its purpose.