Retekess V115 Portable Radio, Pocket Radio, AM FM SW, Recorder, MP3 Support TF Card, Headphone Jack, Sleep Timer, LCD Backlight (Black)

I've only been using this for a couple of days, so can't speak for it's longevity, but except for that I must say I am rather impressed! Lovely size factor, good radio reception, FM is good as expected and on AM BBC 5 Live is great on 909KHz. The sound is surprisingly good, it even has a passive radiator! That said, it could be louder, but it does have a line out (as well as line in!) so it could be hooked up to a bigger speaker. Have not used the microphone yet, but I appreciate it adds to the functional aspect of the device. The li-ion battery lasts a very long time, I have been using it a lot these couple of days and it's only half used. Also these batteries are of the old Nokia type (BL-5C), basically you can find replacements very easily and cheaply if you ever need to. I did not expect much of the mp3 player, but very pleasantly surprised with the controls and there's even a visual equalizer, albeit monochrome of course. What a great little gadget, well worth the ~£20!

This Radio is Fantastic. I had been looking for a quality compact radio and had been looking at a few makes. I wanted one with SW bands and was expecting to pay around 50 pounds for something with some degree of quality. I noticed that the Tivdio V115 met the specification and had 5 star reviews from all who left feedback, so I researched it further on YouTube. I am pleased to say that I am not disappointed, it is a sweet little radio with AM FM and numerous SW bands. The sound is perfect, quite a surprise for a small radio. All of my friends who have seen and heard it are very impressed. You do not just gat a high quality radio, you get the ability to record and even better, you can use a memory card to play your favourite music. So, if you are looking for a reliable radio, that has great sound, plenty of volume and is portable, look no further. It is ideal for adults or children, it has a rechargeable battery and is well worth the money. I would buy this again without hesitation.

I bought this item after reading about it on the groups.io KX reflector and SWLing.com. I had no need of a portable radio, MP3 playback, transflash nor recording capability, I just wanted a powered loudspeaker that I could use as a wired AUX portable loudspeaker. There are loads of such loudspeakers available (although you have to be aware that often the advertised AUX connection is via USB and therefore digital and not TRS analogue.) The USP for this item (for myself at least- YMMV?) was its slim 2cm dimension together with its frequently reported great sound quality. I can confirm the latter and seized upon the former. I am using it in a "Go Bag" (sic) for a Venus Electronics SW-3B shortwave transceiver set up, hence my priority to minimise the thickness. I had tried a TDK NXT loudspeaker but it was useless and was swiftly converted into landfill. I do miss an ability to be able to step tune the radio (you can only carry out auto search or direct frequency entry) but as stated I didn't want a radio anyway. This is just so daft because I'm convinced that a repurposed firmware would allow jog tuning using the slew buttons, but I knew that going into the purchase so I haven't lopped a star off for that. I only marked it down because of the inordinate amount of force needed to locate the AUX cable using what I deem to be a good quality screened audio lead. The display changed to "AUX" but with no audio and I very nearly RMA'd it. On the whole, at this price point no reasonable person should complain and so I feel confident in recommending the V115 for its intended use case at this price. Note that there is an upgraded model with a suffix "P" available that has the addition of Bluetooth, but it is half as thick again and Bluetooth is pointless for sending morse code as any licensed "Ham" will already know. It's not ideal then, but a rotary tuning encoder would have bumped the price and introduced a potential point of failure, but it's still a bargain at the asking price and it works for me.

I bought two of these - one for my father, and one for me. We're both licensed amateur radio enthusiasts, and have enjoyed short-wave listening for many years too. We both have other, more expensive receivers, so these were only bought as a bit of fun - toys for grown-up kids, if you will. But we're amazed at just how good this tiny radio is. Reception on medium wave, short-wave and VHF FM is really very good indeed. The sound quality is fantastic for such a small unit, and the volume can be turned way up without any noticeable distortion. The sound recording facility works brilliantly. The unit also works as an extension speaker when plugged into the USB port of a PC, should you choose to enable that. As I type this review, I have the radio next to me and I'm listening to China Radio International like it's a few miles away, and I'm picking up a whole bunch of other shortwave stations as I scan through the frequencies. All my favourite AM and VHF FM stations are received clearly too. Amazing. Now, is this as good as a £100 radio? In some ways, no - of course not. But in other ways, it's actually better. It's small, light, nicely-made, really feature-rich, and it sounds great! For the price, I'm gob-smacked. Highly recommended.

Some things just hit the right spot, and have a timeless charm and uniqueness that you don't find very often I Love this radio for what it is - there's no way mainstream manufacturers would make something as quirky as this rather than the usual Bluetooth and smart speakers these days, and it fits a niche very nicely for the right customer. Great for many reasons and applications: camping, holidays working trips, bedside, escaping technology and your phone, private listening, this is Tiny product with a big personality! I love escaping the modern world with this, simply just turn on and tune in. Screen size is very generous, aerial more than good enough. I'm yet to try and card functioning or recording and will probably not so best to look at other reviews for this..but As for the sound - as an audio and home studio enthusiast I'm really impressed and smile whenever it's taken on holiday or on a trip because it sounds really decent! The bass diaphragm on the rear certainly does not give the radio anything that resembles deepness, bass extension or anything like high quality audio, but if really does and excellent job of filling out the sound and blends well with the front facing speaker to make a very pleasing sound, especially with voice but music is certainly listenable. I find with decent headphones it sounds remarkable on FM. The plastic tag on the Strad allows the unit to be laid at an angle and you can extend the aerial up. Your main audio device or radio this may not be, but as a little travelling companion or bedside radio this will make you smile every time you turn it on - it's like it's pulling a strange kind of trick sounding this great for the size, looking like it's got one foot here and one in the 80's, and all in a smartphone sized package. I'll be buying a spare battery and using more and more

The only thing good about this radio is it's look. I have spent two day's trying to get ONE channel on this , & only one i did get. on FM it has to be my location ? as I spent days looking at its feedback . I will be returning it. I do not use mp3 player etc, so cannot comment on that . I remember when i was young being able to get hundreds of channels included radio luxembourg , etc very clear. NOw i can just about get one on the whole of AM FM & SW.. Rubbish

This is really a great little radio, so portable and the simple recharge with a standard mobile phone lead so no need to buy batteries. Just love the auto digital tuning to finds loads of stations and easy to save them foe recall. Excellent reception and clarity. Also a great price, I highly recommend this super little radio.

This is one of the current generation of DSP (Digital Signal Processing) Radios which uses an IC (Integrated Circuit) to do most of the work. Pros: Surprisingly good sound for such a small radio. A standard (Nokia phone) Rechargeable battery supplied with reasonable life (at least 6-8 hours) Recording facility onto SD card (not supplied) via .mp3 format. Recordings can be fairly easy accessed on PC or Android by plugging in via the mini USB connection. Can recharge battery via standard phone charger or via PC. FM Stereo reception on headphones. You can make a direct frequency input via the keyboard. Large easily read display, though disappointingly no backlight. Can make audio recordings via internal mic ( or stereo via the line input). A superb device for the paranoid. Quite nicely packaged Aesthetically quite pleasing. A small object of desire. Cons: Not especially sensitive. The tuning and station-setting is not very intuitive. The memory can only be set up as the manufacturer wants, ie only in frequency order. If you can set up the station memories as you want them it is not clear how to do this in the instructions. Not especially useful on short wave. Poor sensitivity on internal whip antenna. Will overload on external long wire. I don’t know why they bother with SW. Some users have reported a birdie on 648kHz, although I have not detected that on this sample. There is some background processor noise on MW. Headphone performance is not that good on small earphones. It may be improved with quality headphones. Does not have an alarm or clock. It would not have been hard to add this. So, for the money, not bad for a small and highly portable radio for MW and FM possibly as an MP3 player. Not a lot of good for SW. Not very easy to set up and use. They have missed out on potentially a couple of potentially useful features.