Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #221 in Consumer Electronics
• Colour: BLACK
• Brand: Pure
• Model: VL-61203
• Released on: 2008-09-25

Features

• Pause and control scrolling text giving you time to note down web addresses competition phone numbers or song titles
• Add new features as they become available via USB
• RDS support for station name display on FM and RDS scrolling text
• Connect an iPod/MP3 player or portable CD
• For maximum convenience add the optional “Fit and Forget” ChargePAK® for around 20 hours of portable DAB listening

Manufacturer's Description

From the world leaders in DAB radio comes ONE Mini - perfectly simple, easily affordable.

ONE Mini If you’re looking for a compact, portable DAB radio, ONE Mini offers a blend of quality, style and affordability that’s hard to beat. Small and light, ONE Mini is an ideal travelling companion giving up to 20 hours portable listening when fitted with the optional B1 rechargeable ChargePAK®. Despite its compact dimensions, ONE Mini has been engineered to provide surprisingly punchy audio quality and volume. We’ve also worked hard to make it intuitive to use with simple controls and easy to access to features. ONE Mini also offers FM reception, an input so you can plug in your iPod or MP3 player and use ONE Mini as a portable speaker, up to 16 presets, a headphone socket and a USB socket for future upgrades. There’s even a choice of colours.

EcoPlus™ is a statement of PURE’s on-going commitment to our environment and its future. It indicates that environmental impact has been considered in the design, manufacture and transport of our products, and has driven both what we do and how we do it. All EcoPlus products are packaged using cardboard produced with a minimum of 70% recycled material, and finished using water-based varnish. All internal pulp trays are 100% recycled, and the user documentation is printed on 100% recycled paper using Soya-based inks. We also encourage our customers to recycle all packaging materials. The boxes of EcoPlus products are designed to be the smallest they can be whilst still ensuring the integrity and security of the product inside. This maximizes the number of products which can be shipped in each container, and thus minimizes the environmental cost of transport.

Ease-Of-Use
Digital radios are much easier to use than analogue radios because they automatically search for all available stations. Once the radio has found all the available stations you just choose the one you want by name. No more trying to remember frequencies.

Wider Station Choice
With up to 55 DAB stations available in many areas, and more on the way, you’ll be spoilt for choice. As well as existing favourites like BBC radios 1-4, BBC radio 5 live, Classic FM and talkSPORT, there are also great exclusive-to-digital stations such as BBC 1Xtra, BBC 5 live Sports Extra, BBC 6 Music, BBC 7 and Planet Rock.

Digital Sound Quality
DAB is crackle-clear and hiss-free because it’s not subject to the same interference as analogue radio.

DAB Stations
There's more listening choice on DAB too. These great stations and many more are available in the UK on DAB digital radio. As DAB coverage varies, remember to check which stations are available in your area.

	ChargePAK An optional accessory for the ONE Mini, the B1 ChargePAK is a rechargeable battery pack which fits into the battery compartment of your radio and charges when the radio is connected to the mains, so you can take the radio wherever you want. The B1 ChargePAK has the added benefits of being much more economical than regular batteries and significantly kinder to the environment, reducing the quantity of batteries that end up in landfills
	Line-in 3.5mm input enables you to connect an iPod, MP3 player or portable CD player and use the ONE Mini as a portable speaker
	Station Presets 16 station presets (8 DAB and 8 FM) to help you organise your favourite stations
	RDS Support for station name display on FM and RDS scrolling text
	TextSCAN This feature enables you to pause and control scrolling text: useful if you want to catch the title of a track, note down a competition phone number or rewind to catch a news item
	Headphone Output Listen through headphones (mutes speaker) or connect the headphone output to your stereo and use as a DAB tuner
	USB Upgradeability A USB upgradeable product is one you can add new features and improvements to as they become available. Upgrades and full instructions are posted on the support pages of the PURE website, and if you’ve registered your product PURE will send you an e-mail to inform you when an upgrade is available

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Customer Reviews

pure one mini
The major drawback with this radio is that it only takes a special sort of battery that Pure sell for an extra £20. It doesn't take normal batteries. Very annoying if you were planning to use it that way and it isn't clear until you have purchased and opened up the box!

Lovely little radio
I finally bought a DAB after my analog radio started to crackle almost continually. I wanted something portable that I could easily take from the bathroom to my bedroom. This product does that and works exceptionally well - crystal clear radio and no voice distortion (I listen to radio 4 most of the time.)

My tiny niggle is that the chargepak isn't included, and that the sound seems to go from too quiet to too loud in one step. It would have been better to have more increments in terms of increasing volume. I should add these are small niggles; I love this product!

Decent radio, but let down by poor usability
The basics of this radio - sound, reception, design, display, construction - are all very good, as you might expect from Pure. However it's let down by poor usability, for example:

- Many functions require you to press the silver knob on the side. This just pushes your radio onto the floor (as it's so light) unless you hold it with your other hand. So you need 2 hands to operate it. This push button needs a rethink, it's much too awkward.

- Selecting a preset station involves pressing a button, rotating the knob until you get the station you want, and then pushing it in. This is a fiddly, 2-handed job that quickly becomes irritating if you like switching between 2 or 3 favourite stations regularly. A few preset buttons - or even just the abilty to press the preset button repeatedly to cycle through preset stations - would be better.

- The programme info display scrolls much too slowly and you can't change the speed (unless you scroll manually using the knob on the side.)

- In standby mode, the clock is very small and dark, too hard to read. It would have been better if they'd used larger digits, and had the option to light the display without switching on the radio.

- Startup time is much better than my 5-year-old Pure Evoke 2, but is still 3-4 seconds, perhaps this is a limitation of all DAB radios though?

- The lack of a battery in such a portable radio is odd, and has proved irritating. I suspect it's less to do with the environment, and more to do with keeping the price down (this radio probably wouldn't sell at £60.) Nonetheless, Pure really should work out a way to ship it with a built-in battery or allow it to take regular batteries.

- The line-in and mp3 player connections are gimmicky: how many people will want to play their music through a small, mono loudspeaker? Better to remove these circuits and put the cost savings towards a battery!

So: an OK radio, but the people at Pure really should try out their sets at home for a few days before releasing them. They would quickly spot these basic usabililty problems and, hopefully, fix them before the radio went on sale.