Customers say
Customers appreciate the radio’s sound quality, size, and portability. They find it has good volume without distortion and is great for listening to music, old radio shows, or audiobooks. Many find it compact and portable. While some customers appreciate its value for money and appearance, others have differing opinions on functionality, battery life, and ease of use.
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PR11 portable radio; only 4.5 oz weight; with a hand strap, very suitable for outdoor use
AM FM digital radio; can automatically search and store stations; can manually enter the frequency through the digital buttons; does not support manual storage of stations
MP3 radio; support TF; USB; AUX interface; not only can play MP3 music; but also can be used as a speaker radio
MP3 fast forward; in MP3 mode; long press the fast forward or fast rewind button to realize MP3 music fast forward and rewind
3 MP3 playback modes; one loop; all loop; current folder loop
Our Top Reviews
Reviewer: DA
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: The Mini Boom Box
Review: Fantastic pocket size media player and radio. The sound coming from the 1 1/2 inch speaker is unbelievable, very loud and undistorted. The battery is rechargeable. The battery comes installed, in the radio, in a plastic bag. The bag will need to be removed, for the radio to work. One of it’s unique features is that the unit remembers what file it was playing, on either the USB flash or TF flash card, when it is turned off, or when the media is removed and then reinserted later. This a great help when playing story chapters. The memory cards must be formatted FAT32. The NTFS format will not load. The LED display is easily readable, in any light. The TF card socket is spring loaded and will shoot the TF card across the room, if you are not careful when removing it, as I found out (still looking for it). The only complaint I have is with volume control. In the the earphone mode, the audio is mostly off, until the volume control is wide open, and then it is too loud. The earphones I use have a built in volume control, so this is not a problem. In the speaker mode, the volume control works as expected, The unit comes with a special combination charging/aux input cord, that plugs into a radio’s mini USB jack. It is charged with a standard USB 5 volt charger or a computer. The aux input allows the audio, from some other source, to be played through this cable. The instructions are in the usual Chinesenglish and require imagination for interpretation. It also has a built-in LED flashlight, that doubles as a charging indicator. It comes withe little stand, attached to the radio with a string. This stand inserts in a slot the back, allowing the radio to stand up vertically. So far I’m very satisfied with the unit.
Reviewer: GE
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Wonderful radio and mp3 player
Review: I bought this for my kids to play mp3s off a USB stick, and radio. They absolutely love it, the battery lasts quite a while, and they really enjoy it. For the price, I don’t care if it breaks or not, and it’s very portable, the sound is great, and it does everything I think they want it to. I agree the headphone sound level is low, but that’s pointed out in the description so it wasn’t a surprise. I don’t know how high fidelity the sound response is at different frequencies, but for the price I don’t expect it to be exceptional – but I haven’t noticed any quality issues to date. The only two things I don’t like about it are that it doesn’t stand upright on its own (I 3d printed a stand to address this, so not a big deal), and when the battery dies there is no indicator I could find to determine when the battery has fully recharged (also not a big deal). I absolutely love this for the price.
Reviewer: Cobrajockey
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Compact, Slim, Light Weight, Attractive, Good Music Sound considering how small it is.
Review: Compact, Slim, Light Weight, Very Attractive looking, Good Music Sound considering how small it is and a bargain for the low price. Retekess is a Hong Kong company, support Hong Kong! The Radio will Scan ALL the AM and FM stations into it and assign preset button numbers for fast channel selection or you can just press in the frequency you want in AM or FM. I wish you could choose only the stations you want to “Preset”, but you can’t have everything for this amazingly this low price and high quality. I was very surprised when I opened it and first used it to listen to my favorite FM music station and AM sports radio station. How can they make this quality for this price? If you need a slim compact radio to just carry in your pants or coat pocket, listen to your favorite stations, this fits the bill perfectly. Volume is a little low for noisy areas, so I would recommend using some good noise-canceling earbuds, the radio has a standard earphone 1/8-inch stereo jack. This company also makes a V115 model with incredible sound quality (has a rear Bass Port), AM/FM and SW and it can manually program your stations to the Presets, although it is about 30% larger. I would recommend this radio, with the limitations I listed, if you are looking for a very good pocket-sized AM/FM radio.
Reviewer: Lois E. Brenneman, MSN, FNP
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Suitable for Audiobooks
Review: I am going to focus this discussion on whether and how this product is suited to listening to audiobooks. Fact is that it is suitable. Most importantly, it will retain the place where you left off so long as you leave the battery in place (and I presume charged). Let’s first get out of the way, what this devise is not. It is not a sophisticated audiobook devise like, say the various Sandisc MP3 players and other similar brands of audiobook players on the market. I do, in fact, own a Sandisc player and it is, indeed, quite sophisticated. It also has certain drawbacks, as well, which is why I bought this Retekiss devise, in the first place. More on this issue, shortly.As for the Retekess, unlike the more sophisticated players, it cannot read directories hence you can not have multiple books on the devise and shift back and forth, each with its own bookmark. Such is not how this devise functions. Instead, it reads from the root director of your flash drive and will play the book download parts in order. You can pause it or you can shut it off and it will play from where you left off, providing the battery is not drained to the point where it is totally non-functional.So why, you ask, if I already have more sophisticated MP3 audiobook players, did I even need or purchase this devise. The answer is that it has physical push-in buttons and it has its own built in speakers. This push button feature means you can play the devise in the dark by feeling for the buttons, i.e., you need not look to see what you are doing. Great for in-bed night-time listening or in a dark car while someone else is driving…..or even if you are driving. You don’t have to take your eyes off the road to pause and restart it.The second great feature, which makes this devise useful, is that, unlike the Sansdisk, you don’t need earbuds, or headphones. Neither do you need to set up a speaker in whatever room you are working and patch into the mp3 player. If you wish to patch into speakers in any given room, you can certainly connect this devise to a speaker via the standard mini-jack, just as you can do with the Sandisk type player. The point is, however, that you do not need to go through this trouble if you are simply doing chores in multiple rooms and you wish to listen to the audiobook while you work. In such case, you can simply pick this devise and carry it with you from room to room. It has built in speakers You can listen to the audiobook while washing the dishes and then pick it up and take it out to the garden while you set about weeding the tomato plants or else to the sewing machine to work on your projects in the spar room where you have your sewing machine. No matter where you are going or what you need to do, you simply pick it up and take it with you – all without fussing with ear buds. I find the need to constantly have the ear buds in place as I walk about from room to room, very annoying They bother me greatly after a short while. I’d much rather pick up a small devise and hit the play button and hear the books via the built in speakers.Finally, I like the ability to copy audiobooks directly onto a flash drive and, then, plug them into the Retekess is great. Most of the competing players do not accommodate flash drives. Most use the tiny cards, however, I have no intention of messing around with those tiny cards which are, to me anyway, a huge hassle. Neither do I like fussing around with directly downloading books onto the Sandisk. Some of the more sophisticated players can be quite fussy about how you set them up such that it will appear as a drive on your harddisk. Sometimes you have to jump through quite a few hoops to get your computer to recognize the mp3 player and then get the books loaded up. With this devise, however, you just pop the flash drive onto your computer, transfer the audiobook mp3 files, then, and plug the flash drive into this mp3 playerCan you listen to audible books? Not so easy. It can be done but you have to first convert the audible files to mp3 files which is doable but requires dedicated software. Moreover, I don’t know whether converting the audible files to mp3 – even for personal use – violates the user license agreement. I have no idea because one rarely reads such documents cover to cover. I certainly don’t. My guess is that audible does not allow you to use software to convert their files even for personal use. You absolutely can legally burn audible files to a CD using audible-provided software in which case these files would have to be in mp3 format. From the CD they could be transferred to a flash drive but, again, I could not comment as to whether doing so violates any licensing agreement. I have no idea. It is not something I stay awake at night wondering about.Bottom line, I Iike this thing for purposes of listening to audiobooks as I move from room to room doing chores about the house and garden. I will also comment that if I am listening to audiobooks on line while working at my desk, I much prefer listening with online or desktop software. I like Angel Vox. In that case, I often have multiple books loaded up and shift between them while I work. When all is said and done, for the little bit of money the seller is asking for this product, you really don’t have much to lose. It fits a niche.
Reviewer: Christine
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: Bought to listen to F1 GP radio commentary, was perfect. Great sound, great size.
Reviewer: David Roberts
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: Fantastic compact radio with excellent clear sound which was pleasantly surprising considering how small it is. Easy to use and has some great extra features such as usb and micro sd capability. Excellent value for money. Highly recommended.
Reviewer: Ahmed
Rating: 2.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: To some extent satisfied with it nice Color , small in size, very light in weight, the sound of the FM is clear and loud, as well as the mp3 and the ease of tuning radio stations and moving between stations, but Am radios have very weak reception, also the charger port is mini usb and I wish it was a micro USB so that it can be charged with a phone charger
Reviewer: Lisa
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: UPDATE: for a very tiny portable radio it’s got some power and capabilities. Overall quality is very good. My husband really likes it. It’s small enough to fit inside a waterproof phone case. it really depends on what you are using it for. If you need something small, portable and has the quality of any larger radio.. this is for you.Before you embark on purchasing this radio. it was my husband that found it and wanted a portable radio. Make sure you pay attention to the details as this REALLY is portable. It’s sooooo small, it’s the same size as those old pocket cameras. For $25. I’m not sure it was worth the price for such a teeny tiny radio.The good news is, if my husband doesn’t like it, I’m going to bring it with me kayaking as it’s sooooo tiny it could literally fit in my waterproof phone case. If that’s what you like, go for it.
Reviewer: Cositas
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: Se tardó en llegar, pero valió la pena la espera. Buena recepción y muy buen sonido, me sorprendió por su tamaño. Gracias al fabricante.
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