ZHIWHIS Portable Radio, AM FM Stereo Receiver, DSP Small Pocket Radios Operated by AA Batteries, Digital Clock/Presets/Start Timer/Sleep Timer for Walking/Running ZWS-903

This radio has an LCD display with an orange backlight, which stays on for about 5 seconds after you press any function button or turn the tuning dial. The backlight is especially useful at night. You can also set the sleep timer to turn off the radio. Just select from a minimum time of 10 minutes to a maximum of 90 minutes, with preset intervals of 10 minutes. The display shows the current time when the radio is not in use.The reception is powerful for both AM and FM stations. I picked up many stations clearly, and others with some static. If you use the tuning dial, you can tune in the frequency precisely at .1 increments.The sound is fairly loud for the speaker size. FM music is decent and is enhanced when you plug in earbuds. The radio has a stereo earphone jack. So, using earbuds give you stereo music. This feature sets it apart from many other radios. However, do not expect MP3 quality sound since there is no equalizer or bass boost feature. Consider using earbuds that have volume control, as the radio sound through the earphone jack can be be quite loud even at low volume. There is also a mute button, which is handy when you need to stop momentarily, without having to turn down the volume.You can also preset stations. Another nice feature is the option of powering with either the USB type C port or AA batteries. The USB-C cable is included, but not the power block or the batteries. The battery option affords portability and is useful when there is a power failure.All in all, this radio is a great value for the many features it offers.

I'm pleased with this little radio. I initially found only two AA batteries. It needed three, so I powered it using the included USB cable. It has a pleasant sound, and it picks up stations well. I've got it on my desk, but it's so small you can tuck it almost anywhere. It's reminiscent of the popular transistor radio I remember from my teenage years. When you press the memo button to set your clock, the orange display light comes on, but it doesn't stay on very long. It also appears briefly when the power button is pressed. There's a pulley button on the side for searching for stations, and the radio features automatic search and preset station functions. It also features a sleep timer. If the power goes out, this radio will be a nice addition. But it would have been better if the display's orange backlight had stayed on continuously.

When I recently had to move I discovered that both of my portable radios with digital displays no longer worked. So now at my new location, every time we have a power outage, I'm forced to deal with my older radios which still have old dial tuners which never seemed to be able to accurately tune into the stations I try to find. So when I saw this portable radio with a digital display, I immediately ordered it.Just slightly smaller than my old Sony with the old dial, the digital display is easy to read. The manual consists of the usual foldout manual, but the paper is glossy and has 13 pages of information all in English. In the manual it says "Because of the limitation of the size of the paper, the size of the word printed is small. Customers can contact us via the email below to ask for a complete electronic version of the manual." First of all, I did not find the print to be that small especially compared to some manuals I have gotten recently, and secondly it was very nice of them to say this and to think of some of us with failing eyes. I decided not to bother them and made my own pdf scan instead which I have become accustomed to doing.The manual and controls are a bit confusing at first, but I was easily able to figure out how to tune in different stations and save them as presets of which you get a total of 29 for each band, FM and AM, for a total of 58 presets! The thing that I could not figure out at first was how to use the scan feature. That is because I was holding down the wrong button for 2 seconds, (You need to hold down the AM/FM button down for 2 seconds, NOT the number 1 button. The red SCAN print is between the two buttons, causing the confusion.)The SCAN button easily set up 17 stations on AM it found out of the 29 presets available, but many were simple loud static, but these were easy to delete. (It shows DEL in red print just below the MEMO button which you also hold down for 2 seconds.) The problem came when I tried the same thing on the FM band, It found 29 stations and then stopped at about 101.5 saying the presets were full, not bothering to scan up to 108.0. While this is a testament to its excellent FM reception, it's a problem when it's filling all 29 presets before getting to the end of all FM stations. I then did a second scan, making sure the antenna was all the way down, and went to the place in my apartment where I thought the radio would have the worst reception. It worked. It scanned all the way up to 105.7 this time before filling all the presets. So I was then able to delete the static stations it found and only had to deal with picking stations from 105.7 to 108.0.The FM antenna which I put all the way down before scanning for stations extends 17 1/2 inches which is quite a bit. The radio also has a clock so you always know the time and a battery indicator so you know when the batteries are low. The built-in speaker is not the greatest but it's good enough and it's also loud enough with easy to adjust readable volume levels from 0 to 20 along with a separate mute button. It also has a 0 to 90 minute adjustable sleep button, and a USB-C port if you wish to power it instead through the short USB-A to USB-C cable they provide. It also comes with a nice quality lanyard.It also comes with a lock button function which disables all buttons on the radio including the power button and volume buttons and locks you into the last station selected. The only other confusing thing that it doesn't mention in the manual, is you set the alarm (and turn it on and off) by pressing the AM/FM button while the radio is OFF. Otherwise you simply change the bands on the radio from AM to FM.Overall I'm very impressed and it's definitely worth the price and it will be getting a lot of use from me.