CHOYONG LC90 Mini Multi-Band Smart Internet Radio Portable WiF/4G,AM/FM,Longwave & Shortwave Radio with SSB Single Side Band,Bluetooth,TF Card,All World Radios,Digital Radio, choyoung

I'll preface this by saying that I'm very happy with my purchase. As someone who often goes abroad to sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America where the internet is dodgy, it's great to have one radio that receives internet radio, shortwave, FM and AM, and is a Bluetooth speaker. That way, I have one source for information/entertainment that doesn't wear down my phone's battery. The hardware: I think the build quality of the receiver is better-than-average for radio sets. It's plastic, but has a solid feel to it. The speaker puts out good sound. Even on classical stations, there is depth. Bach and Beethoven are a pleasure to listen to, and pop stations sound great too. Unfortunately there is no treble/bass setting on the mini to adjust the sound so you get what you get, but it's not bad. The buttons work solidly, the knobs feel a bit cheap. When I first inserted the USB-C charge, it felt a bit wobbly, but now it feels more solid. Perhaps it just needed to be used to mould it properly. There is a headphone jack, but you can't pair bluetooth headphones to it. There is no output for a wire shortwave antenna; you'll have to clip it to the radio's whip antenna. The screen is bright, easy to read and you can set it to darken after a period of time. The thing that bugs me the most is that the rechargeable battery isn't replaceable. I really don't like to throw a whole radio away when the battery dies; it's so wasteful. Shortwave reception: I compared it to the Tecsun-330 I usually travel with and reception is about equal, which is great. A firmware update has given the radio the ability to use SSB, but you can't resolve frequencies to smaller than 1kHz. You can have the radio scan for stations and you move across bands quickly. You can also change the bandwidth to up to 6kHz for better sound. FM reception: Good. I live in Brooklyn, NY where the radio scanned 37 FM stations. AM (MW) reception: Not the best, but when I took the radio outside, I could get 19 available AM stations in the area at night. I have not tried DXing Mediumwave (AM). I've read that the screen and Wi-Fi receiver create interference in the Mediumwave band which makes it difficult for the manufacturer to resolve stations, so it's probably never going to be your best option if you're really into Mediumwave DXing. You can also switch the radio to Longwave (LW) by long pressing the tuning knob, but there's no clear Longwave reception in my area so I can't test the radio's performance. Internet radio: I had no problems connecting to my 2G connection and inputting my password. There are lots of stations, but I wish they included a search feature and sorted them alphabetically. I was able to find my favourite stations and add them to my favourites, but there is no way to sort them. One cool feature they have is the ability to move across your favourites like tuning an old fashioned radio. Bluetooth: It was very easy to pair the radio to my phone and play music and podcasts through it. However, you can't listen to the radio through Bluetooth headphones unless you plug a converter into the headphone jack. TF card: You can insert a mini SD card into the radio and listen to media through it, but that is a feature that I'll never use so I haven't tested it. You'll want to buy a 32 GB TF card anyway because you'll need it to do firmware upgrades for the radio. They should include one with it SIM card: There's a slot for a SIM card at the bottom of the radio. I inserted an EIOTCLUB Prepaid SIM Card with 2GBs loaded onto it. The radio plays great using the SIM card alone. This feature is what makes this radio a game-changer for Internet radios as you no longer need Wi-Fi to enjoy it. There's also an option to buy an eSIM as well. Software: Through trial and error I've figured out how to use the radio, but there's a bit of a learning curve. There have been several firmware upgrades that have resolved many of the bugs and issues users have had with this radio and turned it into a great piece of kit. Refreshingly, there is an active Choyang LC90 Facebook group where users can interact with the radio's developers and provide feedback which often gets Incorporated into future firmware releases. You can also manually add stations through your phone using the Choyong website, but the stations can only be added via the Choyong website rather than directly into the radio (as Ocean Digital radios do). That leaves the radio dependent on Choyong maintaining their internet radio server, which is a vulnerability. Alarm/Sleep timer: Both work as expected. When I'm on WiFi or SIM card the radio's clock synced properly to my time zone and even switched to DST on the correct date.

Es un radio pequeño pero con muy buenas funciones. A un día de haberlo recibido todo va bien. Le instalé una micro SD y descargué una actualización. En la micro SD agregué algunas carpetas de música en mp3, seleccioné varias estaciones de radio en fm e internet y las agregué a favoritos. Tiene buen sonido y funciona muy bien con el wifi. Recomendable.

Update since original review below. So dissapointing the company never reached out to me. I did decide to keep the radio for one main reason. SIM cards. This unit will accept and use a activated prepaid sim card. So I can use the internet radio part wherever I go without need of wifi. Just plug-in in the card and you are good go as long as you have the data and this thing uses very little data. So yeah it's neat playing internet radio without having to connect to someone's wifi. If this is not what you need it for please read review below. Sadly this will be a return for me. Between frustrating setup...why don't you have a phone app to help setup and use this device? Everything is done by manual button entry or from a terrible mic to text system that works poorly if at all. I wanted this for internet radio and playing downloaded podcasts from Microsd card. Internet radio is ok but again could be so much easier to setup and use. Playing files off Microsd is painful. There should be a pause and resume ability if you come back to file. Unfortunately it will always restart a hour long podcast forcing you to spend 5 minutes fast forwarding to find where you were. Sound is decent but again for price point I expected better. The build seems to be well done. I do think the buttons and dials are quality. The case is well put together and the screen is good enough. 2 stars for this. I think this company has a lot to offer and I hope in their next generation or a firmware update on this one improves these things. Please contact me if you want further thoughts and how this unit could be improved in future generations.

4+, almost all in one, a good gadget, many internet channels and podcasts, a beautiful sound, lw/mw very poor reception but probably you cannot have it when you have a 2,5-inch screen, tf card only up to 32 GB. Sensitivity could be a bit better, if you are particularly interested in good sensitivity FM/MW/LW/SW, buy some more expensive Sangean, TECSUN or XHDATA D-808 at least, if you want an all-in-one product and internet radio, definitely buy choyong LC90 (or its mini counterpart), caution: using wifi will be much better than a SIM card (via wifi it works faster, in-built internet via a SIM card has poor recepption and you need to be close to a BTS to use it that way / the mini version of LC90 doesn't differ much, only one speaker but the sound is okay. If you have spine problems, choose the mini version. It is worth buing (both, the larger, heavier and mini version) but I hope Choyong will produce better models (also both, larger and a mini version and also without Chinese inscriptions), considering that some improvements mentioned by me are necessary, I expect for example: better sensitivity, better internet via a SIM card, copmatible with a tf card up to 512 GB or at least up to 64 GB. Greetings

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