Choyong A8W Portable Smart Internet Radio Receiver WIFI/4G Radio Speaker with FM,Micro-SD Card,All World Radios,for Home with WiFi,Digital Radio,choyoung

I just received this fun little guy yesterday and have spent quite a bit of time figuring it out. Compared to its bigger brother (LC 90) it, of course, has far fewer features. However, I seem to be enjoying it more. I'm an Internet guy and that is what this is. Buyer, expect to spend some time tweeking the radio and don't set your expectations too high - consider the price point. Now the major flaw: the headphone input jack doesn't work. You need a "C to headphone" adapter ( it uses the charging input) to play. I've tried 3 different adapters with no luck. The screen shows that the headphone is connected but no sound. It is probably a software issue. If other reviewers don't have the problem I'll return it for a replacement. By the way, the sound is quite good for a small device and the TF player works well.

There is no way to input a search of your choosing. For example all other Wi-Fi radios have a search function such as for music, classical, pop, country, etc. this has none. I then wanted to manually search for a station and there is no way to input text to search only voice input which is poor and never comes up with the right channel. When channels are saved, it can take 2 minutes for the station to load which is stupid silly. I cannot even find Fox News. Also I want to listen to certain classical channels from France or Germany. You only have the country to select from then you have to scroll through thousands of channels that just have the radio call sign, not knowing if it’s news or music and what kind of music. The SIM card is useless because if you stream audio it goes through memory like water unless you have unlimited data which is expensive. I got this because it is small and portable. Sound is ok but distorts at high volume. The radio memory buffer is not good and listening to stations it blanks out to reload the buffer which is irritating. This radio is expensive and should have the minimum controls that other wifi radios have. Any other wifi radio is better than this. The 4g is only for China 4g. There is no headphone jack and no blue tooth. There is no way to change the battery so when the battery dies you have to throw away this expensive radio. The Fm radio works good and scans all channels and saves to memory. The max size for TF is only 32 gig. It doesn’t say what format it plays. Radio takes 10 minutes to connect if it connects. Today it couldn’t connect to my wifi at all. This is update Jan 2025 and the radio no longer connects to internet even though it says connected. Radio totally dead. Get ocean digital.

Having a non replaceable battery is not good, the owners manuel is poor and you will have to play with it to figure out things. Yes, no headphone jack , oh well. But it does sound really good, it takes awhile but it loads internet stations and connects and the fm works well. It looks good and appears well made. I hope they do firmware updates to improve performance.

I'm in 70s now and am a very good lover of radios. My daughter Paru gifted me Choyong A8W recently.I found this Choyong A8W a very good & portable internet radio. I'm very happy, it responded very nicely each of my voice commands after updating its software.- GRPandey from Nepal, now in USA

I bought this product for my self to take around the house with me. I do enjoy OTR stations very much and internet radios are great for that, but this unit has some major flaws. 1. It only connects on 2.4 GHz and not 5 GHz WiFi. 2. Most stations I tuned to took 30 to 60 seconds to buffer before playing the content. Only the BBC channels loaded right away. I've not experienced this issue on any of my other internet radios. 3. Another reviewers point about not having a replaceable battery is spot on. The battery dies you cannot replace it. 4. You can only search by voice! Why? The microphone is terrible and never understands a word I say even if I spell it out. Super frustrating! 5. While the radio breaks out stations by geographical categories it doesn't allow you to choose genres or categories of content. Hugely disappointing. When it works and you do get a station tuned in the sound is decent for a small 5 W speaker. I mostly listen to talk radio shows and OTR, so not music. - All in all I couldn't justify spending $120 on something that worked in a sub par manner, that was slow and clunky. It's almost like they built an internet radio from leftover circuitry from the 70's. All that said I did like the form factor and color. I would have kept it, but for the major flaws noted above.

Works as described with great audio for such a small package; no static or breaking up of signals. Arrived fully charged and ready to go. Fairly east to connect to wifi. Drawbacks? Lack of FM antenna and quirky voice search button which hopefully will be fixed in a future firmware update. Connection to internet stations was good, less than a minute. For me, best feature is the news select button and the easy saving to favorites. Also nice to have ‘always on’ option for screen. Much to explore. As for future updates, if available, a sim card would be needed, not more than 32GB. What would I see to see added? Regular local AM to match the local FM.

I recently purchased this radio because I thought it would be a good alternative to the conventional short wave receivers, which don't seem to work to well anymore. It may take a while to learn to program it, as the written instructions aren't too clear. However, I was able to find some demonstration videos on You Tube, which made them more clear, and easier to follow. One of the advantages to this internet radio is that you don't have the fading of the signals, like with the conventional short wave receivers. Overall, I'd say it's a good value for the price!