This product seemed to fit our needs very well, a small portable Internet radio that could be carried room to room and easily re-set to the FM and AM stations that we listen to regularly here in the country, 150 km from city AM frequencies. When it works, it is fine.However, it is problematic: it gets "hung up" after being turned on, and can take forever to find the local network, then fails to find the favourite channels on our selected list. Then sometimes you have to restart it, often over and over. This can be exasperating. We are not convinced it is technically up to speed.

STOPPED WORKING AFTER 5 MONTH.BUGGY AND SLOW SOFTWARE.

great sound. fair price. just wish it had a wired connection. not wi fi. other great sound.

Let me begin by saying I love listening to the radio. I listen all day when I am in my shop, or inside my office. Consequently I have two other internet radios. One is an Ocean digital portable which I use in my shop, and a Sangean WFR-28 I use in the office. I intended to use this one at home. Also, I will point out that in general, I love Sangean radios and also have a couple of Sangean AM/FM and shortwave portables from the 80's and 90's that I use even today.Pros:- Excellent sound, nice full color display, long battery life.- Supports both 2.5Mhz and 5Mhz wifi.- Convenient sizeCons:- Could not tune several of the stations which I like to listen to -- all of which are available on my other internet radios including my other Sangean's.- Lacks 1 touch station memory buttons. Selecting to a save "favorite" station requires going through a multi-step menu.- The radio has an awkward, built-in software interface for controlling the radio. To be fair, all internet radios are controlled by internal software, but this one is just not the most convenient to use.- The radio display has no full-time battery indicator, meaning that while using the radio on battery power, you'll have no idea of how much battery charge is remaining. That is until the charging port lights up alerting you that you are about to exhaust the battery.- Radio can be controlled using an app called Airmusic, which makes the radio a bit easier to use. Airmusic is available for Android, iPhone and IOS, but oddly enough, there is no Windows version. I was able to use it on my Android phone, but I'm left wondering why not Windows? It is after all, the dominate PC OS in existence.- Strange quirk that kept reoccurring - about once a week, I would turn the radio only to discover all of my saved preset stations appeared to be missing. Even weirder, by connecting the radio to the Airmusic app on my phone, all of my presets stations would mysteriously reappear. Airmusic would then prompt me that a software update was available. Whether it was an update for the Airmusic app, or the Radio's internal firmware it didn't say. Clicking UPDATE would change the Apps display, indicating that an update seemed to be in progress - this also caused the radio's display to blink slowly which I assume was some sort of indication that some software was trying to update. However this would continue endlessly until I finally turned off the radio. Nothing was ever updated. This became a reoccurring pain. I assume that the app was trying to connect to some software server, but could not, and became stuck in a loop.....I have been using Internet radios for years, including other Sangeans, and I've never seen anything like this quirky behavior.- The combination of the quirky, awkward software, lack of Windows support, lack of any one touch preset buttons and the unsupported stations turned out to be a deal breaker for me.Note....Some of the other reviews point to issues such as audio static and/or weak Wi-Fi. I did not experience either of these issues as the Wi-Fi and the sound were flawless while I tested the unit. The Wi-Fi supported both 2.5 and 5Mhz Wi-Fi - a nice feature. It could also be configured for DHCP or manual operation.As I said in my headline, I genuinely like Sangean and really wanted this radio to work out. It is generally a nice radio with a convenient footprint, excellent build quality, great sound and plenty of audio power. But silly flaws caused it not to work for me. Too bad!

Much easier station searches than earlier internet radios. Will lose a lot of its charge if left for a couple months unused. Fair to good local FM reception. Rubberized case is really nice. Color display is clear and good enough for its purpose.

I have the older WFR-28 and I bought this unit because it has a built in battery and it's smaller. The battery indicator is a red light when the battery is low and a green light when it’s charging. At night, the light can disrupt your sleep because it’s bright. It took multiple attempts to connect to my wifi. No other device in my home has such a difficult time connecting to my wifi. After it finally connected, I can hear static noise in every internet radio station. The channels are limited compared to Grace Digital or Digital Ocean. Eg: Iran is not an available location to listen to stations, whereas they are available with the other competitors.

* Small portable beautiful gem with solid build quality.* Good sound quality, given the size. Largely it depends on the wide band strength of a broadcasting radio station.* Wide choice of stations worldwide, especially BBC 1-6.* Software outlay well designed. Wish software would have allowed making categories of favourite Presets. After all there are 250 Presets. But this limitation applies to all existing internet radios that I am aware of.* Needs fast/strong internet, otherwise would be momentarily disconnected.* Read Manual carefully and refer to it more frequently. I also called Sangean with a few questions. They were very helpful.* One important point. While Charging, the moment cable is connected, power outlet will become Green. It means charging is in progress. When fully charged, light on power outlet will Off. At low power, the light will become Reddish. Be ready to charge.* So impressed with this small wrf-39 that I ordered the bigger unit, wrf-32.

One thing I liked about this wifi radio it was very easy to set up to my home wifi it does have nice sound to it I took it out to my backyard and it picked up My wifi beautifullyBut on the other hand it shows pictures of it that it has a battery indicator in the window display which I would like to have but it doesn't have that at all which sucksI took it into work with me so I could listen to it and connect it up to my work wifi since the radio frequency is 2.4 which is a good frequency to my surprise it did not connect to the wifi at work the radio was trying but could not connect so I landed up connecting the radio to my hotspot on my cell phone and it worked like a charmSo now I have purchased a mobile wifi hot spot device plus data I can connect the radio wifi to the device so I can listen to radio station and my husband can listen to his radio station which is from AustraliaUpdateThe radio has been working goodI wish it had the battery indicator status in the display window would be awesomeAnd when you unplug the radio from the wall it turns it off which I thought it was a bit weird since it is charging the batteriesUpdateVery disappointed after about 2 months after purchasing this radio it won't chargeI plug it in and the green light won't stay onI don't think the batteries are even charged no battery indicator in the display windowTried 3 different usb cords and still the same green light flicks off and goes out

Unfortunately Sangean internet radios can not receive Audacy radio stations any more, eliminating a large number of desirable streams.

Tiene un software muy deficiente y capta muy pocas emisoras a diferencia de otros Radios de Internet. Yo no lo recomiendo.

I have purchased several Sangean radios in the past and they’ve all been solid performers.I saw this new wifi radio and read a very positive review from radio expert Jay Allen on his website so I decided to order it.Unfortunately, I decided to return it due to the following reasons:1. It takes too long to boot up each time, especially under battery power. Approximately 60 seconds.2. The radio directory service they use, has a more limited station database versus other internet radios.3. Many of the listed stations (including popular ones like KCRW) take too long to connect, and then they constantly disconnect and re-rebuffer. And I have strong WiFi coverage (with full bars) and a very fast internet connection. This was my main complaint. If the stations connected more quickly and held their connection in a more stable manner I would probably have kept it.4. The FM band is less sensitive versus other Sangean radios. Also, it’s hard to tune the FM frequency band as the tuning knob is slow and adjusts in step increments.The only pluses to me were the form factor. It’s small and can be held in one hand. And the sound quality is okay for the speaker size.For those interested in a portable WiFi radio, I suggest checking out the Grace Digital Mondo Elite. It’s a bit more expensive, but it has a better database, more listening source options and is faster and more stable for connecting to stations.