Simpowel V8 Portable Bluetooth Speaker with FM Radio

This was recommended by a friend who uses one for work all the time. My latest works radio had died and I was looking for something robust enough to last on a building site, have decent sound and be small enough not to be a handful for carrying around. This fits the bill perfectly. In fact it is actually a little too good as a work radio, but the price makes it genuinley affordable. The sound is amazing for the size. The radio is easy to tune despite the lack of presets. And the battery lasts easily the whole day - I'm on the third day and still not charged it. The bluetooth connection is great for when no radio signal is available, simply connect to your phone and listen to the music there. The whole outfit is very well built and the radio seems to be plenty robust enough for site work so would also be ideal for travel. I really can't fault this item other than it would be even better if it came with a dual USB charger, bought mine seperately so that I can run the radio and my phone on the mains if I am in one place long enough.

Amazing sound quality, and very versatile, you can connect anything to it. Was not expecting much from the radio, but that worked perfectly out in the countryside whilst we were camping. This is a great bit of kit, I use it every day while doing my personal training sessions and now even some of my clients want to buy one!!

I'm little bit disappointed from the speaker. Generally work great but there are some points I'm frustrated from. first: Fabric packaging was previously opened - secure stamp was visibly previously opened . I cant think something nice about this if there are functionality issues on the product. second: From time to time there is dysfunction of decrease volume bottom. Instead of decreasing of volume it switch a mode. The switch mode bottom is far enough from decrease volume bottom so this is not caused by thick finger. I didn't find a reason of this and it occurs very random and just from time to time. But it make me agree if instead of decreasing volume I listen "Bluetooth mode". third: Then speaker arrived it played mp3 in random mode. there is not mentioned any random mode of the memory card model user manual. But from a time, may be by pushing of a bottom combination it started to play in succession as I expected this should play. four: Then I first time switched the speaker to radio, it starts searching for channels. but you are not able to switch in between channels in a memory, You should go to neighborhood frequency instead. I didn't find any similar issues reported in reviews so expect this just a wrong peace. I will ask for replacement because from all other side speaker works great. One has very nice reproduction, it look really solid, charging of battery work really fast and battery last approximately 10 hours. Worst for me is dysfunction of decrease volume bottom.

I originally got this to go in my car, which didn't have a radio. It was the only one I could find with a digital display to show the fm tuning. This makes it so much easier to find the right station. The radio is picks up signal easily but will struggle to keep up if you are moving. The sound is good but the bass isn't outstanding. It is really excellent quality and the cable supplied is smart. You can't get better for the price. I have now had it for a few years and it continues to impress me.

I am not the worlds leading audio expert but I know decent sound when I hear it and this little speaker represents great value for money. Sound is clear at all volumes and after 15 hours or so 'running in' they are even better. I have found best sound quality from a memory card but via Bluetooth and mp3 player aux line it is still good. I have a Bose Wave System that cost approx. 15 times more than this several years ago but it is only a little better at filling a room with sound and I admit I was a little surprised with that. I would not hesitate to recommend this product.

I'm giving this 3/4 stars......It's ok, nothing special but for the money what do you expect? To put this review in context, i have some fairly good quality audio equipment for the home such as Denon and Bose. I'm using this as a cheap speaker to take on holiday. Set your expectations fairly low and you won't be dissapointed. Clearly it's no match for something like the Bose Mini soundlink or the UE Boom, IMO the best mini wireless speakers on the market. That said it does have some pretty good features and will certainly appeal to some. I tested this in a relatively small room (single bedroom), using spotify from my phone. Pairing, via bluetooth, was straight forward. SOUND - Bass was weak and much past 75% volume the sound became distorted on a variety of music types. You need a decent solid platform to rest the speaker on also or the sound will destort even more so. RADIO -In my area i found the radio reception to be weak, i couldn't even properly tune into a nation station like Radio 1. In summary, you do get a lot features for your money and as long as you are not expecting top end sound quality, you will be reasonably satisfied.

Incredibly high quality sound and brilliant functionality for such a small price. Usually low end Bluetooth speakers have some issues with the sound quality or volume level, not with this excellent device. An added and surprising bonus was how good the buit in stereo FM radio was too and the high quality cables that came with the device. Absolutely Brilliant.

The sound quality of the product is great for the price, but the speaker has problems that makes it pretty useless. The bluetooth modes keeps dropping the connection. The line-in input has a constant hum when selected. The display is constantly on and very annoying.