Avantree SP850 - Portable FM Radio with Bluetooth Speaker and SD Card

This is a battery-powered FM radio, which can also be paired by bluetooth with your phone to act as a speaker. A micro SD slot also plays whatever sound files are on it. I have only used it as a radio and it's fine. The sound quality is clear. I haven't saved the radio station I listen to all the time but it stays 'fixed' to that one every time I turn it on and off. It is possible to save several stations.The little screen does not show what programme is on like a DAB radio would but that's fine for me. Comes with a longish rubbery strap that might suit someone who wants to hang it off a belt or something, I just wrap it around the radio itself (it give more grip to it, which isn't a bad thing).The battery is lithium-ion and rechargeable. A charge seems to be quick (an hour or so) and with the radio on a lot (6+ hours per day) needs recharging maybe every two days. My only quibble is that when the radio is plugged in via cable for recharging, the volume is LOUD LOUD LOUD, so it cannot be on at the same time as it is being recharged ... EDIT this only seems to happen with data cables rather than a cheap non-data charging cable. I took the battery out and plugged it in to see what would happen - again super loud volume.I still love this radio several years on. Advantages: neat size, can be recharged using a phone cable either connected to a USB wall plug or into a computer, good sound quality. Disadvantage: cannot recharge the battery while it's turned on due to the super loud volume but this can be fixed by using a non-data charging cable if you need this.PS This also has AUX in socket and headphone socket.

BUILD QUALITY is excellent all round. It's had daily use in the last two years and still looks good. The on/off and volume control is a rotating knob. Really great. The stretchy strap is handy.RADIO is FM only. There are ten presents. You'll need to read the manual to program them as it's not intuitive. Otherwise you can scan or type the frequency you require directly. For better reception plug in the USB cable as this functions as an aerial.SPEAKER plays radio or MicroSD or if connected to your computer/laptop via USB will function as a speaker for it. I found this out by accident! The bluetooth functionality refers to the speaker, not from the unit. The speaker has a pleasant sound and there's plenty of volume.MICROSD slot. This makes the unit really useful. You need to buy a MicroSD card. Available cheaply in most supermarkets or take one out of your old phone. To load songs onto the card, connect to a computer via the USB cable and drag and drop to its folder. Great for audio books etc. It copes well with whatever folders and ignores any non mp3 files on the card.BATTERY is charged via USB as you would a mobile phone. The battery life is excellent... we're talking days!HEADPHONE socket which you can also use to send output to the aux of another device. Be aware that if using earphones with an integral microphone you may have to look at how far in you push the jack it, as it may play the speaker and the earphones at the same time and you'll wonder why you're getting funny looks on the train.AUX input enable something else to be played through the speaker, i.e. from the headphone socket of something else.After two years of daily use, I have to declare myself a big fan and I suspect there are many like me. If Avantree bring out an improved version, I'd want to see a simpler radio preset system, a sleep timer (e.g. auto off after 60 minutes), and that's about it.

Well made and good quality at a great price. An aditional SD card allows plenty of space for tracks to be loaded. Just one small niggle with the operation of the software. The menu system has its foibles and trying to get it to play from files is not so easy. It also cuts out halfway through playing 100 tracks in a loaded folder. The user guide is not too helpful. Sound quality and battery life are really good.

This is an excellent and rare product: a basic portable mp3 player with speaker and simple button-based UI.The display shows the MP3 file name when playing the MP3, this is good.Sound quality is totally fine so far as I can tell.Also, wonderfully, it actually CAN be charged over a standard USB-C cable (it's not one of those myriad of devices that has a USB-C charging port, but are missing the pull-down Rd resistor so that the device will actually only charge when the other end of the cable is plugged into a old-fashioned USB-A port).

I treated myself to an early Christmas gift and I am happy with my purchase.I use a Mobility Scooter, and love listening to my music as I cruise along. I have had difficulty finding a suitable player that, not only sounds good, but has a traditional volume knob. With painful, swollen hands, and fingertips, it's not easy to turn up the volume, on modern units, without skipping the track I was listening to. Very frustrating when cruising along! This little beauty is fabulous and the sound quality is perfect. Warm, not tinny!I've not tested the radio (prefer my own music compilations), but I'm sure it will be fine because the quality of this unit feels good too. Not cheap plastic!Rechargeable battery, via USB, is a plus because my scooter has a USB charge port.An addional touch is the 2yr warranty (scan bar code) and, included in the package is a lovely, personalised note, with contact support details if required. Nice touch!Now that my music won't sound like it's coming from a speaker in a tin can, I'm looking forward to inserting my Xmas MicroSD Card, and tootling off out with my dog.I might even put some tinsel on my scooter this year😁Merry Christmas everyone.

Product itself is fine. I wouldn’t pay that price for it if I was looking again. Definitely overpriced when you can get DAB for cheaper

This is a review of the Avantree 3-in-1 Portable FM Radio with Bluetooth Speaker and SD Card Player, SP850.NOTE: Some of the reviews on this page are for a totally DIFFERENT PRODUCT - a bike speaker. For example, one review says it doubled the weight of the bike, which is obviously not talking about the SP850, which is a small very light item.Amazon need to sort this confusion out.------------------------------------------------------------------The SP850 is well designed in every way.Very easy to use. Nice clear layout.Just turn it on, and it will start playing from where you left off.The sound quality is EXCELLENT ... crystal clear at the top end, without being tinny ... solid in the middle range, without colouration or resonant peaks ... and a surprising amount of bass. In fact I don't know how they managed to get so much clarity and depth out of what is a relatively small speaker.Organise your songs into folders. The menu lets you jump to whichever one you want. It also indexes every song and gives it a unique number, so you can jump straight to any track with the number buttons on the top (but remember that if you add songs to folders it will renumber some of the existing songs).Best of all ... it has a smooth, easy to adjust rotary volume control - this is FAR better than up and down buttons for volume.I was so impressed with this unit that I immediately bought a second one as a spare.UPDATE Jan 2018 .. I've just bought another two! Been using one to play music to my dad in hospital.

I have been looking round for months for a speaker combined with MP3 player, and this fits the bill although the technical sales blurb does not highlight the features that I needed - so I took a punt. All my music fits on a 32gb micro SD card. It has been copied direct from my desktop hard drive where the album's are stored in individual folders listed alphabetically and the songs are stored separately in each folder as on the original album. The speaker has the ability for you to choose the folder and play all the songs on the album, although it's not exactly intuitive. The sound quality is very good for such a small and relatively inexpensive unit, and although there is only 1 speaker, the output is in stereo when using headphones. I have not had the speaker long enough to adequately assess the battery life. FM radio seems Ok. A better interface to find and select the music from your micro SD card would make this an outstanding little product. Oh, and for packing it fits neatly, along with a set of earbuds and the accompanying charging cable, into one of those small rectangular plastic tubs that your prawn biryani came in (after washing it out, obviously).

Devo ammettere che il prodotto supera le mie aspettative, considerando il costo relativamente contenuto, il rapporto qualità prezzo e piuttosto soddisfacente.La ricezione della radio era ciò che più mi preoccupava ha permesso la ricezione di emittenti la dove marchi più blasonati hanno fallito. Il suono e potente oltre ogni aspettativa e solo al massimo si può notare una leggera distorsione, collegandolo a delle cuffie professionali il volume non raggiunge livelli altissimi ma non vi è perdita di qualità. Per la durata della batteria spero che la batteria fornita sia un riutilizzo di vecchia tecnologia questo ne limiterebbe la durata nel tempo.Veniamo ora alla MEMORIZZAZIONE DELLE STAZIONI:ho potuto vedere nelle recensioni molti utenti che hanno lamentato la difficoltà della memorizzazione delle stazioni radio, l'apparecchio memorizza automaticamente ogni nuova frequenza sintonizzata che non sia già in memoria in modo sequenziale.Quindi ogni stazione che si sintonizza verrà memorizzata nell'allocazione di memoria 1, poi 2 ecc ecc.Se si vuole memorizzare le stazioni in modo personalizzato, prima di tutto entrando nel menu ci sono due voci cancella, che svuota l'allocazione di memoria attualmente in uso, o cancella tutto che svuoterà tutte le memorie. Quindi una volta svuotata la memoria sarà sufficiente digitare la frequenza della stazione che si vuole memorizzare e questa verrà memorizzata nella prima memoria disponibile, in questo caso sarà la n°1, basterà crearsi in anticipo una breve lista delle stazioni da memorizzare ed ogni volta che l'apparecchio la sintonizzerà sarà automaticamente memorizzata. Se si vuole correggere una stazione perché si è digitato in modo errato in numero della frequenza, basta selezionare il numero dell'allocazione di moria da modificare entrare nel menu e selezionare la voce cancella e confermare, subito dopo bisognerà digitare la nuova frequenza da memorizzare ed il gioco è fatto. Spero di essere stato chiaro e di aiuto.Comunque nel complesso l'apparecchio vale il prezzo che costa alla faccia di tutte quelle marche iper pubblicizzate che costano un occhio della testa ma non hanno un riscontro nella reale qualità costruttiva.

This review is for the Avantree 3-in-1 portable FM radio with Bluetooth. I've had many speakers that stream music, bluetooth speakers and just FM radios in my continual search for an interruption-free portable music experience that I can use while I'm working. This radio comes as close to filling the bill as any other speaker I've had. It's a nice little unit. My first impressions when I unboxed it was that it was well packaged, in an eye-appealing box. The box you almost hate to get rid of, it's got little magnets that help the lid to close soundly. It's cool and all, but the radio is what I'm after, it was a bit smaller than what I thought it would be, which is not a bad thing. It's lightweight too, which might make you think it's cheap, but you will be surprised.I did have a problem with my first unit. When I turned it on, the LCD display would light up, but you saw nothing. That's kind of a problem with a speaker like this that is multifunction. I did figure out how to set the sources I wanted without actually seeing what was on the screen, that was nice, but I knew this was a defect I couldn't live with. I wrote the email address on the support card that came with the radio and got a response within a couple of hours. I was all set up to return the unit to Amazon, no questions asked. And for my inconvenience, they gave me a code to get $10 off if I wanted to reorder the unit, which I gladly did. I left this review at 5 stars because although I had a problem, one I believe would be rare with this radio, the customer service was top notch and ready to make me a satisfied customer. It's not that common anymore to get customer service worth a salt, so I appreciate that, in addition to the really cool radio!I'm glad because the unit I received worked perfectly in every way. The LCD display is quite handy and it's also got a battery saving feature that kills the light after a short period. I've found the battery life to be very adequate and has lived up to the 8 hour claim. The nice thing about this unit is that the battery is replaceable. And I do love the Micro SD slot. If you have a lot of old MP3 music on a hard drive, you never have to worry about not having music if you fill a 32 GB card with MP3 music, it will be a long time before you have to hear the same song twice!The radio itself is stylish looking and has a strap that can be removed. My initial thought was that I was going to toss that strap, but the first time I hung it near where I was welding, I immediately appreciated it. I weld and fabricate, so I create a great deal of ferrous shavings and dust, which wreak hell on speakers in general (the ferrous dust gets pulled into the speaker magnets and covers them to the point that the speaker no longer works or works with much distortion. I try to keep anything with a speaker away from my welding dust, so the strap is handier than I first thought.The radio sounds suprisingly robust and crystal clear for such a small device. It looks to me like there are actually 2 speakers, each on opposite sides. This seems to give it more bass. It's a good sound in all modes. The radio even has a built in equalizer with some preset modes, so that's fun to play with too and each one has a noticable difference in sound quality. The radio is equipped with a pleasant female voice that helps confirm menu choices. To me, it's a classy feature that sets this radio apart from others.It's got a good FM tuner. The radio has an autoscan mode which is a good way to start. Let it run through and save the best stations, then you can go through and delete the ones you don't want or like. You can go to any station quickly by hitting the corresponding buttons on top. 102.5 would be 1-0-2-5 on the top buttons. When it does the autoscan, it saves the 30 best reception channels. These are the channels that the radio will go to if you hit the forward or reverse buttons. If you hard press the same, it will do a scan from that point to the next station that gets reception, regardless of the autoscan saves.The bluetooth is real easy to connect to other bluetooth devices and has a good range. 20 feet is about where I start losing the signal and music starts to get choppy. If it's a clear line, maybe further, and if you go into other rooms, it kills bluetooth badly, so that's just something to keep in mind. There's nothing wrong with bluetooth on this little radio.The Micro SD is my favorite feature of this radio. I used to have the Creative Jukebox type of music players. I had a Grace digital streaming player and I've had bluetooth speakers. None of them had the Micro SD capability that this has. The Creative Jukebox really didn't need it, but the Grace relied on a good wifi signal, which I know my welding equipment sometimes messes with the wifi signal and bluetooth too. Days where it seems that's the case, it's nice to have the Micro SD feature. I found out quickly that it doesn't support Itunes music format, but does support MP3 all day long. It also works as a portable USB drive when you plug it in with the provided micro USB cable. When you use this mode, it automatically goes to USB cable mode when you turn it on.If you are looking for a stylish, versatile way to play music, this is unbeatable. I love it!!!!

Good quality.

This is a great little speaker and I love that it also has a radio. Good battery life. Good price. I can recommend.

Lo principal que me llamó la atención fue su pantalla digital, estaba buscando una bocina de audio con radio, puedes encontrar varias pero yo en cuánto vi esta me decidí. Me llegó unos días antes al programado, y puedo decir que puedes sentir que es un producto con materiales de calidad, es sorprendentemente ligera, también es pequeña, yo me la imaginaba un poco más grande pero está bien, es compacta. Es muy fácil de usar, en el caso del radio incluye botones de acceso rápido en los cuales puedes guardar tus estaciones favoritas. Otra cosa que destacar es su sonido, me impresionó lo fuerte que se escucha, tengo otra bocina más grande, y esta casi a la par con el volumen que alcanza. En los días que la he utilizado he notado que la batería le dura unas 4-5 horas. Por el precio la verdad es que es muy buen producto, no me arrepiento de haberlo comprado. Solo resta ver que tiempo dura sin que surjan detalles.