With it on or just so she has it in the room with her?
Plenty of docking stations with built in speakers about for iThingies these days but not sure I've seen anything that would be a easily portable and with batteries as a radio. A docking station would probably charge the phone at the same time if mains powered.
[sigh] no you didn't. "That's progress? My old Nokia phone has an excellent FM radio built in with decent sound quality and good battery life..."
And you're talking bollocks since (a) I criticised the sound and (b) I'm more than happy for anyone to say what's wrong with *any* device made by any maker.
What I don't seen the point of is making up shit and pretending that it is true.
Still, don't buy an iPhone because I heard one once electrocuted a granny to death then mugged two socialists waiting in the queue at the local block soviet.
Oh and on the positive side Android phones can be powered from two lemons a stick of chewing gum and chanting Buddhist mantras.
It's true because I read it on the Internet.
[snip shit]
Wish mine could - the Galaxy S2 when doing actual work really needs a small plutonium reactor.
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Wife uses her iPhone radio app just on internal speaker - no headphone and seems to manage
AWEM
Having got interested for my own purposes, not many options I suspect. Pure seem to have if not the cheapest then the cheaper WiFi radios and the "One Flow" is portable and has a rechargeable battery it just limbos under the £100 barrier at around £80ish. There seem to be some negatives such as having to pay a subscription fee if you want access to their radio programme guide. That seems a bit unfair when TuneIn does it for free.
The Mutant pocket WiFi radio used to get rave reviews - 10 hour battery life - but as far as I can see it has been discontinued.
There's a Sansui portable for about £90 and the OXX Vantage portable for £70.
I don't know if any of these are any good or are getting into SWMBOs price range.
The OXX gets rave reviews from customers:
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Nothing to stop her carrying a radio from room to room and plugging it in wherever. I dare say you could even make a carrying handle out of the mains lead.
The latest update to TuneIn Pro however has left it crashing regularly. (Mostly when you end a recording.)
You could .. use an FM sender they are easily available, find an unused frequency connect to either a fixed FM radio with a decent aerial loft one perhaps or a wi-fi radio or PC or similar "tuned" to the desired station then she can use a simple FM portable around the house listening to her very own station;)...
Does work rather well...
You are hacking into my exact thoughts!
I use a variant on that when I do wish to use the mains radio or it's CD or radio from the connected Freesat box. Often have a pair of sennheiser cordless headphones connected . Other half sometime wants to listen as well in a different location like her green house. Amongst my box sorry ,crate of obsolete electrical bits I remembered the Sky Gnome* which in a previous era I used to listen to a variety of radio stations before I gave up Sky. Tried the receiver and it picked up the signal from the headphone base unit a treat so SWMBO has it the greenhouse now. Not really applicable to the OP but someone may have one gathering dust and be able to do the same. Obviously only on/off and volume controls and the link channel selector controls work when it used like this.
G.Harman
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The latest update that I downloaded (3.0) fixed that for me.
Do I need to not download further updates? no updates in the queue.
Trivial to set it to not use datalink and use wifi only.
I do too, but the sound quality isn't all that. Ok for a speech programme.
Why carry a whole radio about? Carry one of these:
It almost does... having to recharge one daily isn't my idea of useful.
A set with the DAB decoder in is quite likely to consume power at a prodigious rate whether the thing is working or not. You need a classically designed FM/AM radio to avoid battery trashing.
In the event of a national emergency digital DAB radios will be worse than useless since their battery life is so pathetic.
You are lucky. The latest update improved the situation but here it continues to crash as above.
Just as well mine hasn't got one in then isn't it. FM and Internet by WIFI or cable connection only..
The OP was asking about a WIFI cabable Internet radio, Not how to survive the Bomb, neither DAB which you introduced no doubt excited by the trouser wetting chance to promote your prejudices some of which may well be justified not but pertinant to answering his question. In case of real national emergency then there will more to worry about than how long a radio's batterys last. A wind up one would be good thing to consider then ,I have two which are also torches there is also an old bike with a dynamo lying about somewhere. This being a group for DIY there will be many combinations to to the problem and a vehicle with a tank of fuel will provide power for small radios for a long time. But that wasn't what the OP wanted to know.
G.Harman
Quite - do people expect the radio transmitters and all of the chain feeding them to run on air, if there is no mains power?
LW was the favourite for an emergency as one transmitter could just about cover most of the country. And it does have its own backup generators. Which I very much doubt every DAB or even FM transmitter has. There was also at one time at least a single DC pair telephone line direct to the Droitwich LW transmitter, so even with power failure to the lines, something could be transmitted from London.
That's always been my objection to 'internet radio' - most ISPs have a monthly useage limit.
If you could use a Freeview box to supply the feed instead...
Or a Sky box - dozens of free radio channels on that. I think I might utilise the suggested FM mini-broadcaster with that.
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