Review on 📻 Ocean Digital WR-210N Portable Internet Radio with 2.4” Color LCD, Rechargeable Battery, Wi-Fi & Bluetooth, UPnP & DLNA Player, Sleep Timer and Dual Alarm Clock (Black) by Erin Buck

This radio is only suitable for streaming mainstream radio. He will NOT do podcasts. It has NO apps like Spotify, Pandora, etc. The music services it "connects" to are not as full-featured as TuneIn, iHeart. Skytune.net is just a list of existing radio station streams divided into categories. The radio only points to skytune.net to view and play stations and create favorites. This is great if you just want to get in the flow. My kids love podcasts and as far as I know this radio does NOT do podcasts. To solve this problem, I created a local library of my own aggregated podcasts on a network drive and deployed it to a RaspberryPi device using a DLNA server. This radio will have DLNA access so I could "host" podcasts locally for my kids to play with the radio. One of the extremely annoying aspects of the radio is that it doesn't have a PAUSE function! The included remote has a pause button, but it only pauses playback. When listening to a podcast in DLNA mode and listening to it for several minutes, you CANNOT pause or fast forward the track. If this isn't the case please let me know as I haven't been able to figure it out. Because of this, it's only marginally useful for podcast media hosted on DLNA. It would be nice if the music was stored locally and made available in DLNA mode. The software is primitive but functional. There are no premium features, but that's fine if you just want access to silly radio streams. This radio is a few steps behind more advanced products like Grace Digital and Logitech that I own and still use frequently. I like that this radio has a web interface that allows you to add streams to your favourites, effectively "de-coupling" it from the aggregator service. So I suppose his primitive connection may be a positive trait. Although the skytune.net website interface is simple, it serves as a good way to find new radio streams. This allows you to stream your favorites to the radio via an insecure local web interface and also force the selected station to start playing. The manual for this radio suggests using the "Esptouch" phone app. This indicates that this radio uses an ESP Wi-Fi chip, which I understand is an amateur level Wi-Fi chip. The application is not made by the manufacturer, which once again illustrates the cost-cutting potential of this radio. This radio is GOOD FOR: streaming simple radio streams, as a Bluetooth speaker and NOT SUITABLE for podcasts, music services (Spotify), and DLNA is not suitable for longer MP3 podcasts due to the lack of a PAUSE button. low cost and you would be much better off paying a little more for a radio whose creator is actually built for additional premium services, apps and aggregators. I'm considering bringing back the radio due to its severe limitations, lack of features and no PAUSE button. But basically bad value for what I paid! It is clear that this is an inexpensive device made by a budget company with the most elementary implementation of "Internet radio". Quality and design matter to my user experience and there isn't much of either in this radio.