Awesome portable wifi radio tuner. Claims it will support 99 presets but I've currently got 147 presets programmed in so I'm curious how many it will actually hold. Speaker sounds great and fills a room pretty decently. Tunecast website makes it easy to search for stations from around the world. You can send and play a station link directly to the radio by sending it to the radio's IP address. If you enjoy the station you can save it to the radio preset. As well you can use the radio interface to search and store presets but is easier to use the web interface. The skytune web interface also allows yo to organize the order of your presets and also add stations that are not found in the skytune database. Simply type in the stream url and save it to your presets. The trick is to figure out how to find the stream url address which is different than the station website. Search YouTube to learn how to find a stream url. When organizing the order of your stations start your order with preset #4. The reason is presets 1-3 are tied to the 3 favorite push buttons on top of the radio. If you keep presets 1-3 dynamic then you can change the presets programmable to the buttons without upsetting the order of your preset list. The radio will also receive Bluetooth ( but not send) signals so you can play your favorite Apple Music, Spotify service from your phone and hear it on the radio. I use a Bluetooth transmitter plugged in to the 3.5 mm headphone port to send to a large by speaker to play in my home. It truly is a portable radio because you can link it to your phone's hotspot for use outside your home. Battery lasts ~5 hours on a charge. I recharge it by using a portable battery pack like you use for recharging your phone. I am so impressed with this portable unit I am considering getting one of Ocean Digital's table top units for home use. I'm extremely happy with this product and highly recommend buying it if you are considering one. It is very refreshing to get away from the corporate radio repetition of the same top 40 songs that have made modern radio so dull and boring. There are some really great stations out there that have playlists generated by humans with great tastes in music. I've found myself truly enjoying radio again with such varied sources of news and music.

Great reception, I have had other WiFi radios that had problems with buffering during play but this is great I have yet to have it stop and wait for it to buffer. Also it was very easy to program. To my surprise I even found a radio station that had long since gone off the air. That now only plays on the web that was a wonderful surprise.

My best purchase for last 5 years!
This radio has a lot of stations from all the world, any country!
Smoking and tuning searching stations from other side of planet

I've been looking for an internet radio for a while and decided to give this little guy a try - under $100, Rechargeable battery, skytune support, ability to organize favorites through a web interface and suprisingly good sound for a radio of this class (think the old transistor radios). Was smaller than I expected but easily carried. Definitely happy with the purchase.

I was looking for a travel internet radio and this fills a nice niche for me. It's lightweight but has a strong, well-made case. The case doesn't give when you press on it and the buttons are secure so I won't worry about it being damaged in packed luggage.

Once you've connected it to 2G wifi, it boots up very quickly to play your favourite station within just a few seconds. I like that there are 3 dedicated favourite station buttons on top and a dedicated sleep timer button in front. This makes it very easy to manipulate in the dark. The input wheel is a bit stiff and small for big stubby hands unless you use your fingernails, but I got used to it. The display is easy to read which is a big plus for such a small radio.

One of the best things about the radio is that you can manually add stations using your computer's browser. This is a great feature to have because if Skytunes ever goes down, it won't brick your radio. The favourites webpage even allows you to format/alias your favourite stations' names and sort them as you wish. I've read that it can take up to 150 favourites, but I stopped at around 75.

The sound quality is about what you expect for a radio of its size. It's not going to fill a large room nor will it make audiophiles happy, but it's fine for a nightstand or desk. You can connect headphones or a speaker to the headphone jack for better quality sound. I find that the Pop EQ preset gives a nice balanced sound but you can try the other presets or set up your own EQ to work for you. It's also very easy to pair your radio to your phone/iPad and use it as a Bluetooth speaker, but you're not going to be able to connect Bluetooth headphones to it. The Bluetooth only goes one way.

Some have complained that the radio's Wifi receiver isn't as sensitive as it could be, but I travel with a small portable router so that has never been an issue for me. However, I would highly recommend going into the radio's Configuration menu and setting the Buffer Time to 5 seconds to reduce drop outs. They should have defaulted the radio to that setting in the first place.

I have received about 9-10 hours of battery life per charge cycle. Going into Configuration and setting the display to Dim and then setting the Dim setting to 0% greatly improves battery life. You can wake up the display by pressing any button or turning the volume wheel.

The FM reception is a bit of a disappointment. I live in Brooklyn, NY so ordinarily have an easy time finding FM stations, but even after going into the Configuration menu and setting the FM area to Americas, after using the radio's scanner, most of what was picked was static.

Another quibble for me is that with e-waste in mind, I wish the battery was replaceable. So far, I haven't seen anything that leads me to think the battery will wear out quickly but it would be better if this radio took rechargeable AAA, AA or 9V batteries. I would rather recycle batteries than a whole radio.

I also wish this radio had a stand on the back so it can be laid back at an angle on a table for extra stability. The protruding antenna somewhat allows for this but the angle isn't ideal. My workaround was to buy a cellphone kickstand that I superglued to the radio, but it would be nice if it was included.

But for US$65, it more than meets its brief. Now that international shortwave broadcasting has faded away, my small portable shortwave radio hasn't gotten much use when I go on the road. I've long wished for a dedicated small portable internet radio to take its place. Sure, you can use your phone with a Bluetooth speaker to stream internet radio, but then it's more difficult to use your phone for other functions and often you don't want to drain your phone's battery by streaming radio.

I give it 4 stars and recommend it if you're in the market.