This radio is quite small and portable, easily fitting into a coat pocket.

Despite its size, it sounds very good, though it won’t out-compete even a modest music system or hifi. But then that shouldn’t be why you buy it. Volume can go quite high, with little distortion when on the highest setting.

It is very usable, though there are a few things that could be better. The buttons are flush to the case and require some attention to avoid pressing the wrong one. I found it easier to press them with my fingernail as I found my finger tips a little too big, which meant that without looking closely I sometimes pressed the wrong one. Not a game changer, just something to adapt to.

The colour display is great, but like older cellphones it isn’t easy to see in bright light, especially when dimmed on standby. The display scrolls the DAB/FM radiotext vertically, which is easier to read, although it flips back to the start of the text a little too quickly. The colour display is very readable and clear, but I suspect that it consumes a little more power from the rechargeable battery than plain Black/White LCD displays.

Reception will depend on the area of the country you live in and DAB generally is all or almost nothing, unlike FM. However, I had no problems with tuning DAB in my area. FM reception really needs a strong signal to avoid hiss, but even a top of the range tuner would suffer from that. Tuning stations on DAB was extremely simple, but FM has to be scanned through the frequency range, stopping only at the strongest ones.

Once found, stations can be saved to one of 10 preset buttons for each of DAB and FM. Because of the radio’s size, there isn’t room for ten buttons (just no.1 and no. 2 and 3+) but setting and accessing nos. 3 to 10 is quite straightforward after you have done it once.

Charging the built-in rechargeable battery is simple, especially if you have a spare (or left over) phone charger with a standard USB socket. Take out the phone lead (the other end might have a different plug type) and connect the supplied lead. Charging is quite quick (4 hours from completely flat), but the battery will probably last a good 8 hours of continuous use, perhaps more if it isn’t left in standby when not in use. The display dims on standby, though.

The only other ‘but’ is that the aerial usually needs to be fully extended (unless you live close to a transmitter or its relay). It feels a bit flimsy and the screw holding to its mount feels as if it has come undone, although neither has actually let me down.

None of these provisos would have stopped me buying this radio. It is excellent for what it does and well worth the reasonable price. I really like it.

Love this little radio. It’s smaller than my mobile, has loads of stations and I can connect to my other devices through Bluetooth. Everything I wanted.