Internet Radio Wood Finish

by Asus

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 9.8 x 5 x 7.5 inches ; 5.2 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 6 pounds
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B000Y9TRFQ
• Item model number: INTERNET RADIO(AIR) WOOD
• Average Customer Review: 2.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #84,151 in Electronics (See Top 100 in Electronics)
  • #70 in Electronics > Home Audio & Theater > Radios > Internet Radios
• Date first available at Amazon.com: November 2, 2007

Product Description

Listen to the World with Internet Radio, Enjoy Great Choice with More than 10,000 Radio Stations, No PC Required for Environmentally Conscious Operations, Ideal for Immigrants, Language Learners and Music Lovers, Save Up to 250 of Your Favorite Stations, Built-in Buffer function for Smoother Listening, User Attentive Design, Built-in Sleep Timer and Backlight, Wooden Speaker and Line-out.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

17 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars ASUS Internet Radio, March 27, 2008

By 

Walter R. Davis - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Internet Radio Wood Finish (CD-ROM)

I bought both the ASUS Air Internet Radio and the Tangent Quattro Internet Radio - both are well built and have good sound quality with the Tangent being a little better. Adding stations on the ASUS is possible with a most unhandy method of entering the streaming URL one character at a time from a scrolling list of numbers, letters and characters. An external USB keyboard would have been a great addition!!! The Tangent station list is better and with an email to the Receiva site they can add additional stations to the list. The ASUS has both WIFI and wired Ethernet, while the Tangent is WIFI only. WEP/WPA security can be used on both radios and it is entered on both via the above tedious scrolling list. The ASUS has a remote control making this task just a bit easier. I did find that some stations are resorting to having their own players (like KFI in Los Angeles) and do not make their streaming URL's available - probably so they can add visual advertising! In any case the ASUS is a fine product, but it is difficult to add stations that are not on their list.

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Highly recommend, April 20, 2008

By 

A. Godwin (NY) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Internet Radio Wood Finish (CD-ROM)

Very stylish, and user friendly. Excellent idea, enormous number of stations to choose from. However it has a useless remote control, with a range of only 6cm.

Overall an excellent product.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Good Quality Radio, October 11, 2008

By 

Omar (Perth, Australia) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Internet Radio Wood Finish (CD-ROM)

This radio offers you very good sound quality, excellent finish, and an easy access to loads of pre-set radio stations with the ability to save up to 250 favourite stations.
Out of the box set-up is straight forward once you manage to navigate through the alphabet to enter your wireless network WPA access key using the volume knob.
The radio has up to 8-sec buffer capacity which meant an almost uninterrupted listening experience for the majority of the stations.
I gave this radio only 3 stars because of the following:
1. The inability to integrate with Reciva Radio restricts you from using the extended search and management of your own station list over the web;
2. Adding a new station is not an easy task which requires manual entry of the station url using the volume knob; and
3. Inability to access PC Media files.
Overall a very good radio that would probably benefit from a firmware upgrade to include additional features.