RM50 Internet Radio

If there was 0 stars, that;s what I would give. the radio does not have controls to be able to go back and forward on podcasts i was never able to connect it to the computer so i could listen to music that i had on my laptop the remote stops working the central wheel is a pain, is not user friendly i have tried to contact sagemcom regarding the remote. several weeks later, they sent me a new one. if turns out that its not the remote's fault but the main unit. sagemcom comes to pick up the radio and says that they will send me a new one. surprise, surprise: the one they send to replace my brand new one is a refurbished (scratched and dirty!!). not impressed. complained with manufacturer that then tells me that I have to send it back to the supplier , at my expenses, because at this point, i want a refund and not a new unit. So i send the refurbished one back and he seller says that they will contact sagemcom to see if they approve the refund. The answer is no, because the unit is working fine. Despite my many emails to the company and seller explaining the situation and having agreed with sagemcom that the refurbished radio was the one to be sent back he second time (and not my faulty one), they have refused to refund me. so, without telling me anything prior, they have shipped another unit that I am now stuck with. I am waiting to see when the remote is going to fail, as it will be a matter of time. overall, really poor performance from the radio, sagemcom and the seller.

...so said my other half on his 65th birthday. Glad I was the one who gave it to him! OK you CAN pick up some of those channels on short-wave, but you can actually HEAR them on this. AND this model, unlike most, has an ear-piece socket so he can happily fall asleep with Radio China or Rumania talking in his ears while I can snore on undisturbed! The only reason for not giving it 5 stars is that the remote won't work and the supplier wants us to do the chasing round instead of sorting it out for us. (Nothing wrong with the remote itself as the infra -red functions so there's some other problem.)

This is a very good FM and Internet radio. There are no problems with the setup, although it is easier to use the remote than the buttons on the set. I wanted to use extension speakers in another room as well as the ones on the set, however when you plug into the line out socket it switches off the speakers in the set. I got round this by connecting it to my hi-fi., and then onto extention speakers using various wiring options.

The radio is quite good when it works properly. There's a vast number of stations of all genres and it's pretty easy to operate. However there are a lot of error messages which crop up. For a couple of days there was an "unknown error" which meant it would work at all, for about two days. Looking on the forum this has happened before - something to do with not communicating properly with the site it gets the station info from. Also people have problems getting stations such as the live version of BBC radio 4. Therefore I am afraid I'm not as pleased with the RM50 as when I first bought it and 3 stars is certainly the maximum rating I can give it.

Difficult to set up. After a fortnight the device stopped working. I checked the transformer which was OK. Very disappointed with this.

Whilst a nice product on the face of it, in actual use though it is a pain. After about an hour it will lose the station, sometimes it manages to reconnect and on other occasions the only solution is to turn it off and back on.

0 stars! This radio is totally unreliable. Don't buy it !!!! It just hangs up completely (every half hour) and you have to go through the whole cycle of connecting to your WIFI again, entering password, then entering time zone, time and date all over again! So, it is OK if it works, but unfortunately it doesn't.

This is OK as an internet clock radio when it works but at least twice a week it just hangs up completely and you have to switch the radio off for a while and then back on again. Then you have to go through the rigmarole of connecting to you your internet server, entering password, then entering time and date again. The fault is NOT with my Wi-Fi system, because I have another internet radio downstairs and there is never a problem with that one. This radio is totally unreliable. Don't buy it !!!!