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I Love SiriusI Love Howard SternI Love the Stilletoexcept for one thing:the battery life is horrible. 3-4 hours on a full charge.
What I don't understand is satellite radio pays royalties to play the music Sirius plays everyday, but regular(traditional) free radio does not. Anyway just about everthing else on this receiver is an improvement over the S50, which if I didn't state it is very similar in its functions. Note: Just to be sure your clear with my point, you can record songs with the Stiletto, you just have to be present at the time the song is being played live and hit the record button, then the song is in the receivers' memeory, but it will not do this if your playing in delayed mode, just like a tivo when you rewind live programing, you can rewind back up to an hour. I'VE NEVER USED THIS FUNCTION, I'M NOT GOING TO PAY FOR MUSIC THAT I'M ALREADY PAYING FOR. With the Sirius S50 model(the Stilettos' prediceser) you could just hit the rewind button, hit record for the song you just missed and it put the song in the receivers' memory for listening whenever you want, the Stiletto lets you rewind to the song you want to hear again just like the S50, but recording the song thats differant than the S50. Let me explain, say you heard a song you liked, but you didn't get to the receiver in time to press the love(record) button. When you hit the record button instead of putting it to memory for listing later, it puts the song in a favorites list instead, (which you can't access in the receivers menu screens only a computer) then you must connect the unit to a computer and through yahoo you must purchase this song if you want to hear it again. That is really my biggest complaint over this new receiver Sirius is making, it must have to do with infringement rights or something.
A little large for a portable unit, and non-expandable, so a fairly limited number of songs you can download to it. Nice little player. I love the ability to record any song you're listening to for playback [can not transfer to a computer, etc].
Also, it is not compatible with an outside antenna or a "repeater" system sold by Sirius. This product is great except for the fact it does not receive a signal inside your house which keeps you from ever listening to it while inside. It is portable but has weak reception.
I'm very happy with all of the products. I've had no problems with it (doing what it's supposed to do) during the past two years. If you feel you need to be on the forefront where technology is concerned there are newer, updated Sirius portable radios that people are talking about. The portable radio isn't all that important to me, because I do a lot of listening via earbuds on my computer, however, the radio has been great. I bought the boombox and car kit to go along with it.
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