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Sungale Wi-Fi Internet Radio...Listen to Thousands of Radio Stations & Streaming Music Through an Assortment of Popular apps with User Friendly Touchscreen
Item Dimensions L x W x H | 10.2"L x 2.8"W x 5.2"H |
Style | Modern |
Color | Black |
Hardware Interface | USB |
Compatible Devices | Smartphone |
Number of Batteries | 1 Lithium Ion batteries required. (included) |
Display Type | Touch Screen |
Power Source | Battery Powered |
Radio Bands Supported | FM |
Water Resistance Level | Not Water Resistant |
Display Technology | LED |
Special Features | Rechargeable |
Connectivity Technology | USB |
Tuner Type | Internet Radio |
G**0
Surprisingly Good Small Office Streaming Radio
Have had other internet radio devices but this one was a great match for my needs. Best screen and OS of everything I looked at and at a price point that couldn't be matched. Size is perfect for my home office desk and Gen 3 certainly seems to resolve all of the problems earlier reviewers noted. While the sound quality is just fine for a small office or room, it won't be suitable for most owners in a larger room as it doesn't have to volume or depth to deal with larger settings. The base is enhanced with the bottom subwoofer but not quite what I had hoped for. The selling point for me was the full internet screen experience on Spotify and iHeart radio yielding the same options you would experience on an iOS or Android streaming experience, including the album covers and lyrics. The 4.3" screen size has good resolution but small so the included touch pen is still an asset.
T**R
With just a little more thought...
...this could have been an outstanding radio. It's fairly priced, good sound especially for a compact and responsive. But what a poor interface! Why does it require three button-presses (with tiny type) to turn it off? Why doesn't it at least show the time when it's off? The digital volume control is nearly impossible to get right. And, this is a real pain, it should have automatic volume adjustment.
M**W
Generic Android tablet with large speakers: not a bad design concept
The Sungale KWS433+ internet radio is an interesting design concept: it's a 4-inch diagonal-screen tablet running Android 10, complete with Google Play Store, connected to some decently large stereo speakers and a downward-facing subwoofer. This was attractive to me because I was burned badly on an earlier internet radio from a different manufacturer that ceased working when the Reciva service shut down.I bought a unit advertised as "like new," but it was still logged into someone else's Google account so I did a factory reset. That takes a while because Android 10 has to download and install updates to the Play Store itself before it can do anything else, which can take a half-hour, but once you get past that it works fairly well. Android 10 is still fully supported and currently runs on about 10% of Android installations worldwide, so while hardly new it works all right and is compatible with pretty much any apps you might want.It's possible to install apps from the Play Store regardless of whether they relate to the internet audio function or not. The first app I installed was BitDefender Free, which provides basic anti-malware protection essential to any Android device.Some apps come with the device — including Spotify, Pandora, iHeart, Tune-In — but these are out-of-date versions stored in ROM and they do not update automatically, so the user has to go into the Play Store and manually update each once, searching for them separately by name, after which they will automatically update as is normal on Android. There are suggested apps for basic functions, such as Radio.net, and the user can install these so they are selectable from the start menu. I like Online Radio Box which covers both local and distant (international) stations, but there is no shortage of such apps. My main concern is that I never again want to be orphaned by something like the Reciva shutdown, and the Sungale design makes that impossible.So why a rating of 4-star instead of 5-star? My basis for that is cost and value. It's possible to buy a generic 10-inch diagonal-screen Android 13 tablet for $45-50, but it will have tiny speakers and serious listening to music would need at least headphones or external speakers and ideally an entire audio system. For the $50 I paid for the "like new" Sungale it was an acceptable value, but for over $100 new it would not be. For that matter, any Android cellular telephone of reasonably recent vintage could run the same apps as the Sungale and send audio output via cable or Bluetooth to an external amplifier and speakers. What you are really paying for with the Sungale is the convenience of the table radio form factor including speakers; how much that is worth is a decision for each prospective buyer.Sungale does seem to provide useful proprietary apps, such as an alarm clock, but I have not paid much attention to them.Wi-Fi connectivity seems solid and reliable to me, but make sure you update the device to its latest firmware (Settings, System, Update) which can take up to an hour. Note that Wi-Fi is only 2.4GHz and not 5GHz, but that is unlikely to be a problem. Bluetooth works as expected on Android.The description claims the radio can receive FM broadcast over the air, but I have not figured out how.
J**.
Absolutely useless and returns not permitted
User interface is difficult to use, even with a stylus. Will not connect to internet consistently, given that it is an internet radio. A complete waste of money, since they won't take returns.
A**R
Essentially an Android with attached speakers
This is effectively a stripped down Android phone running stock Android with a custom theme and case and speakers built around it. It’s a little underpowered (read: slow) but in addition to the built-in app list you can install anything you want from the Google play store. I was looking for something that would play SiriusXM and Pandora over office WiFi that requires a webpage to open to connect, which is something none of the other SiriusXM products do.5/5 features, it’s Android you can do anything you want if you put in the legwork4/5 hardware, as I said the device is a bit slow but for music it works flawlessly once a stream is open. Storage is 2 GB or so, don’t expect to download music to it4/5 interface, the built-in interface is workable as best and you’ll probably want to install apps through the play storeAll in all it’s exactly what I wanted. I’ve got SiriusXM, Spotify, iheartradio, Apple Music, and Pandora all up and running and the office is very happy.
R**N
Read the reviews, they aren’t lying about it losing wifi
Bought this radio to replace my wife’s Squeezebox radio since they discontinued their server and this radio seemed like it may be a good option.Some of the reviews said the sound quality was awesome, it is not at all. The little sub gives no mid range or low end and the front speakers are full treble… volume is not very loud either. it worked ok most of the time but it would drop wifi intermittently, songs would skip on their own, pandora would freeze and the clock would lose time. This unit sat in the exact same spot in the bathroom that the 15 year old Squeezebox radio resided and we never had issue so I know it has nothing to do with my internet or wireless router.So my wife said send it back… think we will just buy a nice bluetooth speaker and pair it to an old iphone and make that our bathroom radio!!
V**R
This is a great radio
I absolutely love this radio. I’m able to download apps that normally suck the life out of my phone battery- sound is great and it was so easy to set up that I did not even need to read the instructions- and I am technologically challenged- no more teens living in my house so I was on my own! Took minutes
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