Comments on: Sub-$50 Portable HD Radio landing this summer http://www.slashgear.com/sub-50-portable-hd-radio-landing-this-summer-1443796/ Feeding Your Gadget and Tech Obsessions Wed, 19 Jun 2013 16:56:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: legend85 http://www.slashgear.com/sub-50-portable-hd-radio-landing-this-summer-1443796/#comment-59232 legend85 Sat, 11 Jul 2009 05:23:45 +0000 http://www.slashgear.com/?p=43796#comment-59232 For about two weeks, I have been hearing a commercial on WGAR, in the Cleveland, OH area, advertising the Insignia Portable HD Radio for under $50. The message urges people to get down to Best Buy right now.

I went to the nearest Best Buy yesterday (Mayfield Heights), and they said they had not received the radios yet. I then called the Mentor store, and the employee had never heard ot the radio. I then emaled Best Buy, and have heard nothing back, and have also posted a message on their forums, which has also been ignored.

]]> By: PocketRadio2 http://www.slashgear.com/sub-50-portable-hd-radio-landing-this-summer-1443796/#comment-58932 PocketRadio2 Thu, 14 May 2009 16:35:38 +0000 http://www.slashgear.com/?p=43796#comment-58932 Actually, this is iNiquity’s KRI Armband portable HD/MP3 player shown at CES 2009. It is still a power hog, as SiPort duped everyone claiming 110mW battery drain, but that was for HD RADIO PLAYBACK MODE ONLY! Those numbers are only attainable when all transceivers are shut off and the headphones are used. As usual, nothing but lies from iNiquity. The player is thick because the chipset is still too big. Also, notice how the power cord goes into the top away from the HD chip, as to lessen interference. This KRI Armband actually uses 500mW, so charges will be, at best, a couple of hours. Also, good-luck picking up those fragile digital signals without dipole antennas. This piece of junk will be returned enmasse:

http://hdradiofarce.blogspot.com

And, you think at $50, or any price, these junky HD radios will sell, just ask Mark Ramsey. Over four years, few HD radios have sold, and most have been returned for being “deaf”, just like what will happen with this joke.

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