Customer Reviews

Zadro Shower Bug AM/FM Radio with Clock, Pink

5 star:		(2)
4 star:		(2)
3 star:		(4)
2 star:		(4)
1 star:		(47)

 

 

It's a cute little radio, nice and compact. The clock can keep time. That's where the usefullness ends. It is difficult to tune. The antenna got rusted. It was very inexpensive... but in this case, you get what you pay for. Don't bother.

The radio station resets itself to the beginning of the radio dial when you turn it off; you can only move the tuner forward, not back, so you have to reset to the beginning if you miss a station; and now that I've had it for a few months, it has started changing stations on its own without me touching it.

Cheezy as cheezy can be. The only feature I liked was that this item could be returned! The sound was terrible, not easy to tune, flimsy design and the gimmick to have it look like a bug was only cute if you are 10 years old. This thing is junk and not worth the price of the batteries it requires. Mine was promptly returned.

I thought this would be just the perfect size for a radio in my bathroom. It is. However, the FM tuner on the radio automatically resets to 88.1FM EVERY time you turn it off. It won't retain your usual station, and start there when you turn it back on. And since there is a button to scan to the next available radio station (instead of an old fashioned tuner-dial), you might need to press it 10 times or more each morning to get to your preferred station. It's really quite annoying, and I end up listening to NPR for traffic instead of my favorite station, which is much farther down the dial. I would not have bought this product if I knew that ahead of time.

I have had this for over a year but haven't gotten much use out of the radio. I have exchanged it more than once because some the first couple I got never worked to begin with. The radio (at very best) gets a very, very, poor reception. I did notice that at times when I put new batteries in it the radio would work slightly better, but not for long. Finally, I decided to put it in my laundry room and use it as a clock only. I recormend getting this shower clock/radio because it has worked much better for me: Fog-Free Mirror with AM/FM Radio & Digital Clock in White.

I adore my showers and I've been looking for a way to put music and NPR in there with me. This looked like a great, inexpensive way to do that. Oh, so wrong was I. The thing is very "cute" -- looks like a little water skeeter with suction cups legs and an antenna tail. Looks great in the shower and clings well to the tile.

But it doesn't work worth a damn. Finding a station is a chore of hitting the "Scan" button over and over again, which doesn't always work. There is no display so you can't tell what station you're on. And when you finally do find something, the reception is horrible. The sound is tinny but I expected that.

The worst part? After spending all that agonizing effort to get station tuned in, as soon as you turn it off, it resets. Guh! It would have been so much better (and probably cheaper to make) if they had just made it with an analog dial rather than this fancy-but-doesn't-work digital tuner.

Final recommendation: DO NOT BUY THIS! You have been warned.

I would have given it zero stars but that is not an option. It stopped working after about 10 minutes of static filled reception. It was difficult to get a station. And it was not a problem with the batteries. Run, don't walk, *away* from this!

If your favorite radio station is at the beginning of the dial, this is a good buy. If not, forget it.

I had no problems with reception, the time and date work fine, and the batteries last a long time. But if your favorite station is further down the dial or you like to listen to more than one station, save yourself the headache and buy something else. The station numbers are not displayed so you have to guess which station you're on and, as if that weren't annoying enough, when you turn it off it forgets which station you were on so when you take your next shower you have to start searching again from the beginning of the dial. If the Zadro had pre-sets, it would be great.

The little radio does not have the ability for station lock-in. Every time it is turned on it reverts to a station set at the manufacturer. Since there are no indicators or displays it is annoying and time consuming having to constantly reset the station(s). It also has lousy reception and lots of static can be heard when the radio is on.

My girls bought this for their step dad for his birthday. He won't even listen to it any more because he has to reset the station every time he turns it on. We can never find the station we like without having another radio on to find it. The main reason he quit listening is because after I spent time trying to set the station in the morning, during his shower the station would automatically change to another one, give me a break! This is a worthless radio, it doesn't even deserve 1 star!