Esky Emergency Hand Crank Radio 7400mWh with 3 LED Flashlight, AM/FM/NOAA Portable Weather Radio with Power Bank Phone Charger, Solar Powered Rechargeable Radio for Indoor Survival Camping, SOS Alarm

The media could not be loaded. I charged it when I first received it, and tested all the functions. It’s a really nice little hand sized unit; comfortable to hold. The radio works well.

Works great. Don't have to but batteries or worry about a power outage now when storms come. I can still use this if the cell phones go out too. We'll worth the buy

I bought this in the winter, so I didn't test the solar charging. But it does work fine as a crank charger. When I bought it, the battery was charged enough to test the radio and the flashlight. Both work just fine. It comes with two cables: a USB type A to mini-USB cable for charging the radio from a USB type A port (the type you're used to); and a specific cable for charging an external device. The second cable has kind of a strange connector. It resembles an audio jack on one end (which plugs into the radio), and the other end has an adapter to USB type A. I've seen this type of cable before on small, cheap devices. It's not an audio cable, and it's not a USB cable, so you probably don't have any spares. You had better not lose it if you want to charge your phone with this device. The small connector type was probably chosen because it saves space on the radio, since the radio was designed to be so small.That's another thing about this radio. It's tiny. Five inches long. That's probably a good thing, since it's meant to be put in an emergency kit that you take with you. The battery is a reasonable size (1000 mA-hrs, 3.6V). It's not going to charge your phone 100%, but I would guess that the radio would last at least five or six hours at a reasonable volume.The radio has some quirks that took a star away from my rating. First, the instructions say that if you leave it inactive for 60 days, you should fully charge the battery again to prolong its life. While I understand this from an electrical perspective (it's generally bad to drain rechargeable batteries past a certain point), the design should have been such that it completely shut down at a certain voltage and didn't drain the battery down to zero. I'd rather not have to "maintain" my emergency kit every two months.Second, the solar panel is too small. They say you can get a full charge in ten to twelve hours. That's a really long time. But I guess that's what the crank is for, and it's also a result of the device being so small.Overall the build quality seems pretty solid. It's cheap plastic, for sure, but it feels well-put-together. The crank especially is an important part that needs to not bust, and I felt like it was pretty good quality.I'm pretty impressed with the design that has three separate possible power inputs (charging cable, hand crank, and solar panel), and also has the five important functions (weather radio, AM radio, FM radio, flashlight, and device charger). I think it's important that an emergency product works without the user having to figure it out, and this one does.I can forgive the small solar panel, but I'm slightly worried that the battery may *DIE* die (like, for good) sometime before I need this in an emergency. Why did they include that note in the instructions? If the battery charges back up five or ten years from now, great! - This product would merit five stars from me. But seeing as I can't prove that, the concern takes that five star rating down to four.

The radios are good quality, I put these in bug out kits because there relatively inexpensive, light weight and compact.

This emergency flashlight radio is exactly what I needed for my emergency kit. It has several super useful features: a bright flashlight, AM/FM and NOAA weather radio, solar charging, hand crank, and it even works as a power bank to charge my phone. It gives me peace of mind knowing I have it at home in case of a power outage or disaster. It’s compact, easy to use, and the battery lasts a long time. Highly recommended for home use or to keep in your emergency backpack!

Works as advertised. Very good fm and weather reception.

Very neat little emergency jack of all trades. Recently Hawaii had a powerful hurricane come very close to hitting and although it didn’t greatly affect the majority of the islands, it was a serious threat. These kinds of things make you check your disaster preparedness kits and this was the one thing we didn’t have and couldn’t get before the storm.A radio is very important to have around and I liked that this had a variety of ways to have power including a hand crank, a small solar panel, and a rechargeable 1000mAh battery. It also has a decent light and the ability to charge your devices via USB port on the back.The device feels pretty durable for a cheaper plastic build. I think it should hold up with proper care but it isn’t necessarily built to throw around. I think the build is reasonable for the price.The radio works as well as I’d hope. It is easy enough to dial into the stations and with the telescoping antenna it can pick up a signal very well. The speaker is cheap and nothing to write home about but it is more than functional for its intended use.I think a problem with these type of handcrank radios is that due to not using them very much between potential disasters, the batteries lose their capacity and become nearly useless outside of hand cranking it the entire time you’re using it. I imagine that this can be an issue for this radio and so it is probably important to store it with about a half a charge and occasionally check and recharge as needed to maintain the battery health.Overall I think it’s great and important to have and hopefully I’ll never have to truly test its importance but I think it is a good deal for the price and I can recommend it.

The radio is refreshing to hear. The solor power works ( weak), it's small and cute. Decent battery life if being used in the sun .