[access-uk] Re: talking portable dab radio

  • From: "Jackie Cairns" <jackie.cairnsplace@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2012 09:46:33 +0100

Hi Terry

If I listen to the radio at all now, it is via either the Sonata, or my
iPod.  I can't get a DAB reception here for love nor money, so I just
stream.  If I had an iPhone, I'd do the same as yourself.  As you say, how
times change!


Kind Regards,

Jackie Cairns

-----Original Message-----
From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
Terry Clasper
Sent: 10 September 2012 09:38
To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [access-uk] Re: talking portable dab radio

hi.
i personally use my iphone these days for my porrtable radio listening. in
fact the other week wwent on holiday and for the 1st time didnt take a radio
at all just my iphone and portable bose speaker. amazing how things have
changed.

Terry clasper Sent from my iPhone

On 10 Sep 2012, at 09:29, "Jackie Cairns"
<jackie.cairnsplace@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi Clive
> 
> I agree with you regarding DAB.  The quality is dreadful anyway, and 
> there is far more to be accessed by using an iPod or going online to 
> stream.  The Plextalk, as some have said, is also an option.  We've 
> been let down and misled by DAB in my view.
> 
> 
> Kind Regards,
> 
> Jackie Cairns
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On 
> Behalf Of Clive Lever
> Sent: 09 September 2012 15:00
> To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [access-uk] Re: talking portable dab radio
> 
> Seems then, that if you want anything with spoken menus, you'll have 
> to port everything over and learn how to use apple products, or 
> whislte dixie I could never get on with the controles on the Pure 
> move, ehre, if you press down and a bit to the right you get one 
> result, and if you press right and down abit you get another. Whatever 
> I did, it always took me ten minutes to find the station I wanted. I 
> don't listen to DaAb radio. I went off the whole idea.
> 
> Best,
> Clive
> 
> 
> 
>    ----- Original Message ----- 
>    From: Clive Jacobs <mailto:cj@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>  
>    To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
>    Sent: Sunday, September 09, 2012 11:11 AM
>    Subject: [access-uk] Re: talking portable dab radio
> 
>    
>    
>    Yes, the lack of speech is a bit of a pain but it is not too hard 
> to work things out. CJ.
>    
>    Eleanor Burke wrote: 
> 
>        I have the Sports one which is the size of a mobile phone and 
> rechargable battery and external speaker but no speech guidance.
>        -----Original message-----
>        From: Clive Jacobs
>        Sent:  08/09/2012, 2:15  pm
>        To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>        Subject: [access-uk] Re: talking portable dab radio
>        
>        
>        
>        
>        Hi, Roberts do make a small and very portable DAB radio. I t is 
> worth
>        considering. Regards CJ.
>        
>        Bobby McNab wrote:
>          
> 
>            Hi, does anyone know if there is such a thing as a portable 
> talking
>            dab radio.
>            I know there's a pure talking dab radio available, but it's 
> not
>            exactly portable.  I'm looking for something that can fit 
> easily in a
>            side pocket of my rucksack as I love to listen to the radio 
> when i
>            take my dog to the woods.
>                
> 
>        
>          
> 
> 
>    -- 
>    I ain't dead yet!
>    
>    
>    
> 
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