Boston Acoustics Duo-i

DAB radio is a medium in crisis - note Channel 4 pulling out of their proposed national stations. Add that to the fact that DAB is actually not that good and it seems eminently sensible for Boston Acoustics to produce a radio without it. What would have made the radio really desirable would have been the inclusion of wi-fi internet radio.

Shame once again this isnt portable with the otion of battery power.

I just dont understand how in the 1980's you could get a decent ghettoblaster with battery option, yet 25 years later and products matching that sort of power just dont dont seem to exist...

agree with Ruthless - never mind the DAB, where's the internet radio? Most especially for a bedside radio. Because apart from the youngsters out there, I guess most of us go to bed at about our usual bedtime and get up the next morning, so you're sentenced to a lifetime listening to the same thing on the radio schedule every night and every morning - unless you have internet radio, when you can so easily dial up whichever podcast or listen-again stream you like from Auntie.
As to batteries, never used them, it stays plugged in!

ah, well Ed, as you probably know (?), the BBC has a range of tech/science radio output, but its scattered all around the schedules and wavelengths. So there's Material World, Science in Action, Leading Edge, Discovery, Digital Planet, and more I'm sure, all probably overlapping with the TR profile (if there is such a thing). But if you want to listen to such as you nod off each night (and what else is a bedside radio for? [er, apart for waking up to of course...]) then you have a choice of an erratic bedtime or an internet radio. Otherwise I suppose there is always "Today in Parliament" on FM.
So keep the Internet Radio reviews coming please

I hope you can answer a few quick questions for me as I'm very keen on buying one of these very soon. In fact I’m have trouble stopping myself from visiting John Lewis tonight…

1) It appears that the Duo-i has been out since March (ish) and it's very unusual for Trusted Reviews to wait so long to review a product; so is this a new version or was it just much later appearing in the UK than the internet makes out ?

2) iPhone 3g compatibility. In the pictures it looks like you tested it with an iPhone 3g. Can you confirm if this is so and if there were any issues ? Did it charge the phone for instance? This is an absolute must for me.

3) Finally, I've heard in reviews that the speakers are not shielded and therefore when the phone is on the unit you can get "interference" / "feedback". Did you notice this at all in your testing?

Thanks for any help.

Shame. It seems that communication on this item was a one day only affair on the 20th.

I haven't bought one far because the worry of the interferance at low volumes is just too great.

Thanks Ed. Obviously these weren't too bad - or they would I'm sure have effected your review. Good to know that it charges the 3g.

One last question. This comes from the comments on places such as Amazon (from owners). Did you ever have it by the side of the bed as you slept or in another like environment.? Many are commenting that it makes a small buzzing noise.

If it does then I know I can't have one. There is a small electrical buzzing from the aerial booster in my bedroom 12ft from the bed, if I don't unplug it then it annoys the hell out of me and I can't sleep. :-(

"I tend to listen to radio just for background noise and seldom have time or inclination to sit and listen..."
Curious credentials for one reviews the product!
But on a more serious note, why do the Boston Acoustics products not show up in your database. Filter in Multimedia for "DAB" and no Boston Acoustics products show up, and "Boston Acoustics" does not appear in the "brand" drop-down list either. Clandestine review?