Medium-sized portable radio, enthusiastic, hard to complain about what ...

After I already know 3 stationary web / DAB + and used, I have now been looking for a mobile option to also go DAB + and FM and possibly the radio to have available without spraining my ears ...

For a medium-sized suitcase radio has a surprisingly good sound, of course, one may expect no Hifi. Operation is intuitive substantially. Special topics you have read in the manual (see below), z. B. How to register the device at Frontier Silicon and to find the 7-digit registration ID. The display pleases me much better than at similar looking Sangean devices and also better than many competing devices with plain text output. I like the design also, but since everyone has to look for yourself anyway.

The possibilities offered by the underlying Web radio database of Frontier Silicon to web radio station search, to the radio-favorites management and to access the most recently heard the radio station, I like good, also that, to the stored in Web Web radio favorite channels at all registered web radios has available. Because two other web radios, which also use the Frontier Silicon Web Radio database, no information about the artists and titles convey, I was very pleasantly surprised that this information be displayed in Sangean with (what you probably really should also be expected, but as I said the competition no offers). Also DAB + - and FM reception is m. E. very good.

With regard to the radio functions I have only to complain that only 5 per area presets available (5 webtv, 5 DAB stations, 5 FM stations). Here the double would be angberacht ...

Also the playback of MP3 files from the USB stick shows that Sangean here better solutions than many rival offers. You navigate through the Ornderstruktur which folder and file names are advertised and also some special characters function (Greek is however displayed as ?????, but I can live with). Then you play a file obtained successively the information from the MP3 tags using the Info button.
In the competition I have experienced here more often 8-digit MS-DOS Shortcuts.
The unit plays the files of the folder, where you can adjust Shuffle and Repeat. To complain about here only that the play order is not necessarily the original order.

In addition to the USB port for USB flash drive (probably up to 64GB) or card reader provides the unit with line-in, line-out and headphone jack much more than many others. So you can hear or hanging the device from the hi-fi system for example. MP3 players via the unit.

Streaming is probably possible, but I have not tried.

The unit also features a snooze and 2 alarms. According to the manual, there is besides the possibility to stop the alarm and an alarm button, with which you can temporarily disable the alarm for 5 minutes. But what this should be, is not to be recognized. Did it also have not tried. *** Addendum 24.2.13: The Sangean report has confirmed that there is no alarm button with snooze function for Unterbrchung. One can only alarm with the standby button fluorrescent [end Supplement] ***.
And if you want to be woken up by radio sound, but the station is not available at the alarm time, the device wakes up according to instructions by the buzzer. I call that thought along.

In case of power failure, and probably also in the battery or rechargeable battery operation Standby the device loses the time, which it re-reads depending on the setting of the Web, of DAB stations or from the FM RDS station, if it is operated in the relevant mode. But how is it then to the desired time awaken when the time is just to get away? This, too, I have not tried it yet. *** Addendum 24.2.13: The support confirmed that the alarm function can be used only by the continued power supply [end Supplement] ***

It is also noted that, although accompanied by a user manual in paper form, but only in English. The German version is available as PDF file on a CD-ROM in (can also be downloaded at the Web Sangean under Support). The manual itself is quite OK, even if the German word order is sometimes a bit unusual.

Even my unit was starting just over an English language operating menu. After a software update, you can then also choose German. Until then, you have to stop to cope with English. The German menu also has a few English rudiments or idiosyncratic translations. For example. means "reduction void" that long not found DAB stations (which with vorgestelltem? are in the service list) will be removed from the channel list, so "reduction of the channel list to invalid stations".

Despite these criticisms, I find the device overall super: class facilities, good service, good sound, a total thought.

*** Addendum 24.2.13: When inserting the batteries inserted and you have to scramble; pinched when inserting the battery 3 in a triple compartment. [End Supplement] ***