Asus Internet Radio (Air) Black Supports 10000 Worldwide Broadcast Stations

by Asus

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 5 x 9.8 x 7.5 inches ; 5 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 5 pounds
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B000Y9MMNK
• Item model number: INTERNET RADIO(AIR) BLACK
• Average Customer Review: 2.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (14 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #105,915 in Electronics (See Top 100 in Electronics)
  • #81 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

19 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Worst internet radio I've ever seen, October 11, 2009

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Luwigal (Oranienburg, Germany) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Asus Internet Radio (Air) Black Supports 10000 Worldwide Broadcast Stations (Personal Computers)

A)
Have you ever seen a manufacturer who does not support it's own product? Go to asus and check what they offer you for this radio. Be sure, once you have problems with this radio, you get lost. I bought two of these radios and none is working well with wireless. But, wireless is ... why I bought them. Don't have cable running in every room. Manuf. product pages tell you it is working with WPA/WPA2. In fact, wireless sucks, totally. Well, if you google you will figure out I'm not the only one who has this problem. Worst of all, no information at asus regarding this problem. No information asus might offer a new firmware. If you own this radio you have to wait for asus until asus helps you out. Helps you out will work only, if asus wakes up, asus is willing to help, if they send new firmware or whatever else to these radios. (Right now ...) There's no way for you to update these radios. There is also no way to reconfigure it by a webinterface or by USB. There is no webinterface and there is no USB. Only way to configure it is by pushing buttons on the radio or the remote control. Doing this is painful. No direct way to enter letters or numbers, it's like cursor up and down until right number or letter shows up and finally pushing enter for every single digit.

Radio #1 : It's display shows, there are 13 networks it can see. Three of them are own cloaked networks. But, you see, of course, no information what cloaked network belongs to one of these three lines. Unfortunately, there is no way to enter the SSID which could be very helpful. You need to check all of them and ... if WPA/WPA2 does not work with these radios you really feel pi..ed off after endless trying thit'nd'that and ... and ... Guess you know what I mean.
Radio #2 : It's display shows - it is right next to # 1 at the table - three networks, only (not 13 as # 1). But, all three lines are empty like # 1 shows for cloaked networks. Hmmm, OK, I thought, I don't need the others. But, same problem, same trouble like # 1.

None of both radios can connect to the WPA/WPA2 networks. Well, it looks like they try it but with no success at all.
I tried to connect to an open network with # 1. After long long time of waiting, display shows connecting, it suddenly connects to an open network. But, I don't want to step down my networks from WPA2 to open. Not because of these two radios.

B)
Looks like there's no way to keep basic config once your radio does not get power. Both radios I have, don't keep information about date and time once you unplug the power cable. Guess, all you entered by hand like own information about radio stations they are not listed by asus/air and ... and ... and ... will be lost (?).

C)
My advice for you ...
Don't by this radio until asus as manuf. is willing to take care for it's own product.
Do not accept and support a manuf. who'll wind you up.

12 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Asus Air Internet Radio, February 6, 2008

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W. Nist (Cottonwood, AZ United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Asus Internet Radio (Air) Black Supports 10000 Worldwide Broadcast Stations (Personal Computers)

Since this is my first Internet radio, I can't compare it to other radios. That said, I love this radio. It was easy to set up, program and start exploring the stations that it is programmed to receive..Asus claims 10000 stations, but since there is no listing, that seems high to me.

The sound is good, and the features I like are the sleep times (I listen at night so I like that it turns itself off), the sound which is pretty clear (I listen to talk radio), the appearance (very classy woodgrain box), and the price (which is the most inexpensive on the market).

I don't think their customer service is knowledgable because when I called them to see if the automatic time set feature was working, they didn't seem to know how to even work the radio...as if they had never even seen one.

They also have automatic updates that download directly into the radio, which I assume updates station locations etc., but when I asked what the update consisted of, no one could tell me, and it is not posted on their website.

So even though some of my favorite stations (like WABC and WOR in NYC) are not on their station list, I am very satisfied with this product.

10 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Inconsistent performance, October 1, 2008

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RickE (Boise, Idaho United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Asus Internet Radio (Air) Black Supports 10000 Worldwide Broadcast Stations (Personal Computers)

This radio regularly forgets what WIFI network it is supposed to be looking to. It will remember for a day or so, and then need to be re-connected. This is annoying and frustrating to my spouse, who can't remember how to do this. Moreover, although it lists a number of stations that we know are broadcasting and which we want to listen to, the radio cannot actually play their broadcast. I don't understand this, and again, it is a frustration.