Retekess V-112 Portable AM FM Stereo Radio with Earphones Pocket Mini Digital Tuning Rechargeable Battery LCD Display for Walk(Gold)

This is the second time I am buying this product. I bought two of these about five years ago, they lasted till very recently, so I bought two more! I am repeating what I wrote earlier as a review. My earlier comments given below in the next paragraph still hold good, except for one change: my old BOSE speakers conked out, I now use the latest SONY XM-5 noise canceling speakers. Fantastic product! Small, light, and with a carry strap. Takes about an hour and a half to fully charge its built-in Lithium battery. Lasts about ten or twelve hours on a full charge (I bought two, while one is being charged, if I need to listen I use the spare!) Sound quality depends on the quality of your headphones. I use a set of BOSE, top of the line headphones, the sound is perfect. I would strongly recommend this item for anyone who wants to listen to AM or FM while walking around, or in the gym, or in public transport!

PROs: It has surprisingly good sound for such a little unit. The interface is easy to use (once programmed) so you can operate it by touch only, useful at night. Any smartphone with an FM tuner-app can play radio, but you can't operate an app by feel only. The radio has a sleep mode that shuts off after 90, 60, or other programmable number of minutes. Has a lock button so keys don't get accidentally pushed in a pocket or in bed. Stores up to 29 stations as presets. Rechargable Li battery is a good choice for an emergency radio, since you can keep it running from your car, computer, or pocket chargers, etc. That seems better than betting that you'll have the right size alkaline battery around when you need it. It's a small and good-looking radio besides (I got the gold-tone model). CONS: These are not deal-breakers, just annoyances. The biggest problem is that the instructions are wrong. To store preset stations, you must press Memo once; it flashes memo, then press that same key again. That's it. the M+ and M- keys are only for moving through the preset list. They have nothing to do with storing presets. You can figure that out with experimentation, as I did, but it is puzzling why they would print wrong instructions. Another con is that the lowest volume is still pretty loud for nighttime. You can loosen the earbuds to lower the volume further. Earbuds that come with it are uncomfortable, but high quality earbuds are not hard to come by these days. Overall, I wanted a small radio to do two things: 1. be operable by feel for nighttime insomnia, and 2. Use Li rechargable battery for my emergency kit. This radio meets the need at a very good price.

This tiny cheap device works without a hitch. I do use my own earbuds (as in the picture) rather than the cheap ones supplied. Reception and sound on FM are both fine. Its so light and small it fits easily into a pocket to carry on my daily walk. The feature I like best is the "Lock" setting which locks the device to prevent inadvertent button pressing in a pocket. One downside is that the screen scratches easily on the keys I had in the same pocket (see pic) - I use a small gadget bag to put it in, or you can simply use a different pocket.

Overall the quality of build is ok and features work fine after a few weeks use. Packaging was good and included wired ear buds(as fm antenna) usb c cable and lanyard to carry around neck. However sound is let down by ear buds, its tinny and a bit muffled. They are ok for voice but music sounds poor. I tried other ear buds/ head phones and quality was much better but had extra static, maybe head phone wires werent good match as antenna. Anyway recommended , but change ear buds unless using just for talkback radio. Enjoy.

Purchased this radio for use at motorsport events to listen to the local track radio. It works very well; easy to auto-tune, fits in your pocket easily and the battery easily lasts all day. The cheap supplied headphones got decent reception and provided reasonable sound quality (even over the sound of race cars) but you can use any 3.5mm headphones if you wish. It charges via USB-C so likely you can use your existing phone charger to charge it. Note it does auto-turn off after some time (I assume 90 minutes or so) but a single button turns it back on, returning to the previous saved/tuned station. Also note it seems to scan beyond the normal 88-108MHz range, so you might need to sift through a few dummy tuned stations of noise in the 60-70MHz range to get to the actual stations later, but it's no big deal. Overall recommended.