Virgin Pulse AM/FM Stereo Tuner with Weather and TV Band - VP03

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Summary: Disappointed in Sacramento
Review: After my gym bag was stolen...I looked at the brighter side, I get to buy new stuff! Very bad choice in the radio department though. As with everyone else, the looks attracted me and the fact it had a lock button. The reception, however, was horrible. Even with holding the headset wire with one hand, in the air...nothing but static. Also proves to be dangerous trying to get reception while working out. I'm taking mine back this weekend.

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Summary: Disappointing
Review: Cool design, but poor performance. The reception is terrible, the headphones are awful (and I had low expectations), and the volume dial is smooth, so it's hard to work (impossible with gloves, if you're at a cold ballgame, for example). The first set of presets I programmed in inexplicably disappeared, and the sound jack is already causing problems (I've used it a total of 30 minutes). Target and Virgin should be ashamed for selling such a shoddy product. I'm sending it back.

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Summary: battery issues
Review: Do not buy this. As stated previously, it goes through batteries in about a week. Also, too much static. Can anyone recommend a decent, small am/fm radio that works well?

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Summary: Dont bother
Review: got this as a gift...very disappointing quality, volum dial is hard to move and the display is hard to read and the arm band is useless, the radio doesn't even clip into to it. Save yourself the return shipping charges and find something else.

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Summary: awful
Review: I am so glad I took the time to RETURN this item. I intially loved the concept of a small radio to bring to the gym. But when the radio kept falling off my arm, had very poor reception and needed 2 batteries in the first week, I knew I made a mistake. Also I spent addtional money to find headphones that wouldn't keep falling from my ears. Please do NOT waste your money.

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Summary: I like it
Review: I bought this about 3 months ago, before reading the online reviews, because I like the simplistic looks of it. I live in a major city, Chicago, and the reception isn't perfect but I can always find one of my five presets that is coming in great. As an added bonus, I washed my gym hoddie with the unit inside, and after a half hour of drying out, it works again.

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Summary: cheep
Review: I received this as a christmas gift. Neat idea, very handy and small enough to put in your pocket, but it had NO RECEPTION, and it broke after I used it like 3 times. I returned it for a new one and it broke 1 week later. DON'T WASTE YOUR MONEY.

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Summary: I give this a weak reception
Review: I tried two different radio sets. I had to return the first one thinking it defective. I was wrong. Two local stations come in so fuzzy and weak that the auto tuner would skip them. Both of these stations transmit from barely 5 miles away. And this is flat Northern Tampa, Florida. The tallest structures between me and the stations are long leaf pine trees. The advertised battery meter, shown on the false readout sticker and in the literature and packaging as a selling point simply did not exist. The television tuner also consisted of a lot of noise and could only receive 2 stations. The weather radio did not work at all on either of the two radios. Major disappointment in rainy Florida. Not merely disappointing, but essentially worthless as a radio. Unfortunate since it's the best looking and smallest of these sets on the market. Comfortable earphones. I shall return...it.

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Summary: cheep
Review: I'm VERY disappointed in this product. It SUCKS batteries. I use mine at the gym for around 3 hours a week and I can get through about a week and a half. Another thing I hate is that when you change the batteries, you lose your preset stations. That means you have to spend 5 minutes re-programming the stupid thing every time it goes dead! The armband is a joke. The clip barely holds the unit to the armband so if you accidentally hit the unit, it goes flying. And when it goes flying and hits the ground, the already halfway dead batteries come out which means -- you guessed it, you get to program it yet again! (this has happened to me on more than one occasion). I'm going back to my old Sony! It might be a little heavier, at least it's dependable.

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Summary: Total Junk
Review: I'm VERY disappointed in this product. It SUCKS batteries. I use mine at the gym for around 3 hours a week and I can get through about a week and a half. Another thing I hate is that when you change the batteries, you lose your preset stations. That means you have to spend 5 minutes re-programming the stupid thing every time it goes dead! The armband is a joke. The clip barely holds the unit to the armband so if you accidentally hit the unit, it goes flying. And when it goes flying and hits the ground, the already halfway dead batteries come out which means -- you guessed it, you get to program it yet again! (this has happened to me on more than one occasion). I'm going back to my old Sony! It might be a little heavier, at least it's dependable.