🎶 Elevate Your Mornings with Smart Sound!
The Majority Newton DAB/DAB+ Digital and FM Radio is a versatile audio device that combines a dual alarm clock with Alexa voice control, Bluetooth connectivity, and Spotify Connect. With a stylish wooden finish, it offers a modern touch to your bedside while providing a wide range of listening options.
T**X
Great Little Smart Speaker / Radio With Amazon
This is a great value smart speaker with amazon Alexa features. Set up was simple as long as you follow the instructions. Looked at and tested a number of smart speakers but for the money this little speaker cant be beaten.The Alexa feature works well and picks up commands as good as the main Amazon smart speakers. I would say the Majority App is better then the Amazon Echo App.Plus it has DAB and FM radio in case you want to go old school. Also all the benefits or being a wifi and bluetooth connected speaker. The sound is very good for a small speaker clear voice nice bass and not the often woody sound some other cheap speakers can create.For the money this has to be a the best smart speaker on Amazon.
D**.
Good for the price
The app didn't work on my moto G4 at all after an hour of trying. Used a Huewai phone and it worked first time. Alexa works pretty well, a lot of people say that internet radio does not work but I ask alexa to play and she goes to tuneIn etc. which is all internet radio. DAB channels seem ok but reception around my house is not great so there is a bit of a break up there. Alarms etc. easy enough to program or get alexa to set them even easier. I wish the alarms also had the option of setting to play an internet radio station rather than just sound, DAB and FM. I wish the display had been a bit bigger and I haven't found a dimmer yet for the display so not sure if it can do that.Really for the price this is a really excellent radio with pretty good sound quality and its pretty small as well which is good. Nice job
N**.
Excellent value and good quality
A lovely system with excellent features, had a little trouble setting it up on my iPhone XR ios 13 but setup easy on iPhone 5c running iOS 12 Easy to use once setup. Sound quality is really good with a decent volume without distorting. Looks really nice too, nice simple un cluttered interface with clear display. Alexa is a nice feature and you can turn the microphone off for privacy. Also good to use for airplay from your Apple devices. Definitely recommended
A**A
Doesn't work with Android
Really tried to make this device work, The price is low so I didn't expect much out of it. The app fails to connect this device to an internet connection when using Android. After using an IOS device managed to get it connected but then the preset buttons do not work.
D**R
Doesn't fully integrate with Alexa. PLEASE READ BEFORE BUYING
I really want to like this product, and it has so much potential to be an excellent product, but it just does not deliver.I purchased this to replace my old bedside DAB radio that died. I had hoped to get a DAB radio alarm with the extra functionality of Alexa. But you don't. It clearly states in the advert that AMAZON ALEXA VOICE RECOGNITION can be used to listen to your chosen artists or playlists. However you can't as I've since found out afterwards, and is stated on the manufacturers website.The good bits.I like the style of the device. The sound quality is fine, not amazing but adequate for what you'd need in a bedroom. DAB reception with the aerial up is good. FM radio is good and Alexa can be used to set alarms, check the weather and stream radio stations over the internet. For the price it is good value for a replacement DAB radio alarm clock.What is not so good.Clearly from the advert I was hoping to be able to instruct Alexa to play songs by my favourite artist or from my playlists. But you can't if you use Spotify at least. You can control the speaker from your phone and play your music from there but you CAN NOT use Alexa to play it. If you don't make Spotify your default app for streaming music it will offer to set up an Amazon Music account for you every time.This was a feature I was convinced I was getting from the advert. I have been emailing their technical support now for 6 days and they are still advising me on how to do a factory reset to get this working, Clearly even they do not realise, in spite of it stating it won't work on their website.Additionally on this subject you can't control the DAB radio either with Alexa. If you ask her to play a radio station it switches to your wifi and streams it via TuneIn radio app.Alexa is pretty much limited for me to checking on the weather and quickly setting alarms. Not what I had hoped for.Secondly it is a royal pain in the butt to set up. I tried doing it from my phone following the instructions but it fails. This is because once I connected to it on wifi via my phone, my phone would realise there was no internet access and revert back to my router directly, preventing you from completing setup. I eventually managed to find a way around this, but it took me 1 1/2 hours to get working.Finally, and this may sound petty, is the clock is 30 seconds slow. I've rebooted, unplugged etc but no - always 30 seconds slow. So I set an alarm for 7am and have the news come on. The problem is that it wakes you up at 30 seconds past 7am, so (given the length of some news bulletins) you tend to miss half of the main news item. So I now have to set my alarms at ?:59 every time to make sure I can hear the news.I know it's petty, but it is really annoying.This device has the potential to be brilliant, but it fails. If you want a device that fully supports Alexa you'd be much better off looking at a smart speaker, especially one with a clock on it if you want it as a bedside device. I really hope they can release a firmware update to sort these issues out. If they do they would have an amazing product on their hands. As it is though, they don't. It promises so much but fails to live up to it.2 stars overall.
A**
Good for the money but missing important functionality
Its a nice looking thing and works well up to a point. The sound quality is much better than an Echo (which costs the same price) and the DAB and FM radios are a bonus. But...- We bought it for the bedroom and it turns out that the volume does not go quiet enough: even at volume 1 it is too loud to fall asleep to. The Echo Dot could go much quieter.- So we swapped it with the Echo Dot that we had in the kitchen, only to discover that the device does not support inter-room communication, which is a major reason to have Alexa in the kitchen.So only 3 stars. It doesn't suite either of the locations we have tried it in but these shortcomings may not bother other people. I'm just hoping for a software update to give us more control over the volume.
S**.
Fantastic functionality, great dab radio
Great little dab radio , sounds nice too and with the benefit of Alexa integration which for the price is fantastic 🙂 once it's all set up (and as long as Ur not an idiot like me and keep putting the wrong WiFi key in) nice and easy to get things going. You WILL need to install Alexa on Ur phone , just a heads up , it u don't have to have "her" as Ur assistant , ie u can keep ok Google and I guess Siri (don't know as I don't do apple)So if u want a clock radio that u can just set the alarm by talking etc and all the other functions of Alexa , I recommend this .Addition : I bought a cheap smart bulb and had no trouble using it with this radio