Sungale Wi-Fi Internet Radio...Listen to Thousands of Radio Stations & Streaming Music Through an Assortment of Popular apps with User Friendly Touchscreen

This radio has solved a years long problem for me. I live in a high rise condo building on the side of a mountain and have trouble receiving clear radio signals without static a lot of the time. The Sungale provides me with crystal clear reception for the NPR stations I love. But, the biggest benefit is that I now can have music anytime I want it with wonderful sound. In fact, its sound is equal to that I have with my Bose system because it has a bass woofer built in. It will run on a battery, but I keep mine plugged in all the time with its power adapter. The small size makes it easy for me to move it around the condo and use it wherever I want to be. One caveat, it is difficult to program for someone like me who is a bit of a luddite. But, once you have it, it is wonderful! I highly recommend it for the sound, the size and the variability it offers.

Has terrible operating system and/or user interface. Trying to use the stylus on the little touch screen is almost impossible. You have to double check every single character you are trying to enter because you never know what actually might be displayed on the screen. As an example, if trying to log into a music service it could take up to half an hour before you enter in all the log-in credentials successfully, and then another half hour if you want to use the search feature to find a specific station or artist. Then it can take another 5 to 10 minutes just to turn the power off. It keeps wanting to do some kind of 'safe reboot' before you can actually turn it off. Only reason for 2 stars instead of 1 star is because the thing does actually work once you are able to access what you want - it just takes forever to get to that point. In a non-Amazon rating system this thing shouldn't receive any kind of positive rating, which 'one star' is actually a positive rating with respect to a positive number of stars verses a negative number of stars. In a real rating system I would give something like a rating of "MINUS 100". Whoever designed this thing doesn't have a clue! UPDATE - 12/16/25 - have to drop down to '1' star! The thing constantly drops the wireless connection, which may or may not be associated with the screen sleep mode, and the volume control is terrible at least at low volume - you have essentially no volume, then tap it up one time and it jumps to close to medium volume - ridiculous! I need "low" volume to listen at night as it helps me go to sleep - not medium or high volume! Have just ordered a different unit/brand and if it is any better - this piece of GARBAGE is well, going in the GARBAGE! Can't believe any merchant would sell junk like this!

Have had other internet radio devices but this one was a great match for my needs. Best screen and OS of everything I looked at and at a price point that couldn't be matched. Size is perfect for my home office desk and Gen 3 certainly seems to resolve all of the problems earlier reviewers noted. While the sound quality is just fine for a small office or room, it won't be suitable for most owners in a larger room as it doesn't have to volume or depth to deal with larger settings. The base is enhanced with the bottom subwoofer but not quite what I had hoped for. The selling point for me was the full internet screen experience on Spotify and iHeart radio yielding the same options you would experience on an iOS or Android streaming experience, including the album covers and lyrics. The 4.3" screen size has good resolution but small so the included touch pen is still an asset.

The Sungale KWS433+ internet radio is an interesting design concept: it's a 4-inch diagonal-screen tablet running Android 10, complete with Google Play Store, connected to some decently large stereo speakers and a downward-facing subwoofer. This was attractive to me because I was burned badly on an earlier internet radio from a different manufacturer that ceased working when the Reciva service shut down. I bought a unit advertised as "like new," but it was still logged into someone else's Google account so I did a factory reset. That takes a while because Android 10 has to download and install updates to the Play Store itself before it can do anything else, which can take a half-hour, but once you get past that it works fairly well. Android 10 is still fully supported and currently runs on about 10% of Android installations worldwide, so while hardly new it works all right and is compatible with pretty much any apps you might want. It's possible to install apps from the Play Store regardless of whether they relate to the internet audio function or not. The first app I installed was BitDefender Free, which provides basic anti-malware protection essential to any Android device. Some apps come with the device — including Spotify, Pandora, iHeart, Tune-In — but these are out-of-date versions stored in ROM and they do not update automatically, so the user has to go into the Play Store and manually update each once, searching for them separately by name, after which they will automatically update as is normal on Android. There are suggested apps for basic functions, such as Radio.net, and the user can install these so they are selectable from the start menu. I like Online Radio Box which covers both local and distant (international) stations, but there is no shortage of such apps. My main concern is that I never again want to be orphaned by something like the Reciva shutdown, and the Sungale design makes that impossible. So why a rating of 4-star instead of 5-star? My basis for that is cost and value. It's possible to buy a generic 10-inch diagonal-screen Android 13 tablet for $45-50, but it will have tiny speakers and serious listening to music would need at least headphones or external speakers and ideally an entire audio system. For the $50 I paid for the "like new" Sungale it was an acceptable value, but for over $100 new it would not be. For that matter, any Android cellular telephone of reasonably recent vintage could run the same apps as the Sungale and send audio output via cable or Bluetooth to an external amplifier and speakers. What you are really paying for with the Sungale is the convenience of the table radio form factor including speakers; how much that is worth is a decision for each prospective buyer. Sungale does seem to provide useful proprietary apps, such as an alarm clock, but I have not paid much attention to them. Wi-Fi connectivity seems solid and reliable to me, but make sure you update the device to its latest firmware (Settings, System, Update) which can take up to an hour. Note that Wi-Fi is only 2.4GHz and not 5GHz, but that is unlikely to be a problem. Bluetooth works as expected on Android. The description claims the radio can receive FM broadcast over the air, but I have not figured out how.

The radio works great for an hour or two then it just stops streaming. It’s still on but not streaming. I go and reset the channel and it comes back on.

...this could have been an outstanding radio. It's fairly priced, good sound especially for a compact and responsive. But what a poor interface! Why does it require three button-presses (with tiny type) to turn it off? Why doesn't it at least show the time when it's off? The digital volume control is nearly impossible to get right. And, this is a real pain, it should have automatic volume adjustment.

This is effectively a stripped down Android phone running stock Android with a custom theme and case and speakers built around it. It’s a little underpowered (read: slow) but in addition to the built-in app list you can install anything you want from the Google play store. I was looking for something that would play SiriusXM and Pandora over office WiFi that requires a webpage to open to connect, which is something none of the other SiriusXM products do. 5/5 features, it’s Android you can do anything you want if you put in the legwork 4/5 hardware, as I said the device is a bit slow but for music it works flawlessly once a stream is open. Storage is 2 GB or so, don’t expect to download music to it 4/5 interface, the built-in interface is workable as best and you’ll probably want to install apps through the play store All in all it’s exactly what I wanted. I’ve got SiriusXM, Spotify, iheartradio, Apple Music, and Pandora all up and running and the office is very happy.

easy to set up and streams amazon prime music which is what I got it for