The choice of stations is great, as with any internet radio, but this has some major drawbacks that drive me mad:
- The sound is really thin - it has no depth to it at all. It's no good for kitchens because it just can't compete with any background noise.
- The wheel scrolls through items one at a time then switches randomly to one page/screen at a time and doesn't always correspond to how many notches you turn the wheel, so it's easy to miss things.
- There doesn't seem to be a way to remove stations from the favourites list - something I only discovered after adding loads of stations, which I now have to scroll through to find what I actually want to listen to.
- You can access podcasts and a backlist of all the BBC programmes, which is great except that there's no function to pause, fast forward or rewind, so if you want to listen to the second hour of a programme, you have to listen to it from the beginning.
- It is painfully slow. It takes ages to fire up and to switch between stations.
- The display light doesn't bother me but is bright enough to keep my partner awake at night.
So, to summarise: if all you want to do is sit in a quiet room and listen to one station, this will do fine. Otherwise, I would invest in a radio that has better sound quality and is more user friendly.