Comments on: Pure Sensia digital radio: first look

By: Phil Short

Phil Short — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 17:27:44 +0000

Oh, one more thing – it would be nice if the unit would continue playing the last selected source while you search for another. It just stops playing as soon as you hit the Source icon.

By: Phil Short

Phil Short — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 17:24:47 +0000

Battery wasn’t missing, its an optional accessory.

In conjunction with a WD MyBook World Edition the Sensia works fantastically as a streaming client. It was bit flaky with a pc as a music server.

This one clever rugby ball, I love it.

I just wish the power button wan’t right on the top, I tend to turn it off every time I put the aerial up or adjust the screen angle and it takes ages to start up again.

Also the sole clock icon on the screen in standby is very confusing for new users – they tend to touch it to start the device and wonder why all they can access is the alarm clock. I know, the assistant in the shop I bought it from did this for 10 minutes before finally managing to switch it on!

By: Mark Dunn

Mark Dunn — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 19:56:50 +0000

If you are looking to use it with your media server, check which codecs it uses. It also arrived with the battery missing.

By: NeilL

NeilL — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 12:00:36 +0000

Nice looking nice sounding, couldn’t get it to pick up radio 1. It then froze when downloading software (it give a prompt to do so) and as I needed a USB cable to connect to PC I decided. Not worth it its going back!

By: manutec

manutec — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 10:36:08 +0000

@ Daniel:
I agree, but so far I couldn’t find a really user friendly touch screen OS. Does anyone have a recommendation for a touch linux distribution or any other OS? To build such a thing yourself with based on a Netbook would be a neat modding project.

By: Ian

Ian — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 17:51:57 +0000

@John Grey

Just had another look at the Pure website – the homepage currently loads details of the Sensia and says in big letters as the sub-headline, “Radio for the facebook Generation” so I guess it may well pass you by…

By: Ian

Ian — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 00:39:07 +0000

As I said in the later Sensia based post, this uses http://radiodns.org – what’s effectively become an industry standard for displaying visual radio content. The Sensia is the first radio to use it.

@Paul Ockenden – it’s the same price as the Avanti Flow, which got a very good review from this website… and it’s far more tempting to get this than the Avanti.

@John Gray – “Radio for the Facebook generation” is how the radio industry is heading – take a look at the various iPhone apps (e.g. Absolute Radio) and you’ll see very little difference between that app and the one for the Sensia. And the current Facebook generation will become the new ABC1C2’s that the advertisers love…

@Dubber – you’ve got a point there – I can only find Cowan having bothered with the iAudio D2 +DAB variant – DAB won’t hit mass market until Apple adopt it and considering that digital Britain is suggesting a 2015 digital upgrade for radio (i.e. all BBC/commercial radio will move to DAB, voluntary to FM with MW being phased out) they’d better move fast if radio is to survive long-term. At least they’ve finally adopted FM…

By: JD

JD — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 16:59:13 +0000

Maybe the Sensia’s appearance will encourage 3com to relaunch the Audrey, which rather led the way as curvey touchscreen devices/radios/web apps go.

By: Daniel

Daniel — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 15:50:21 +0000

That’s netbook money for relatively little/almost no functionality…

By: David Wright

David Wright — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 14:24:20 +0000

The UI looks like a bastardisation of early UNIX graphical shells and Windows 2000… It looks very dated.