Emergency Hand Crank Radio with LED Flashlight for Emergency, AM/FM NOAA Portable Weather Radio with 2000mAh Power Bank Phone Charger, USB Charged & Solar Power for Camping, Emergency

I'm quite pleased with this little unit. It may not be perfect, but it's only twenty bucks, so it gets five stars. Amazon says it has a 1000 mAh power bank, but the included manual says it's 1200 mAh. I would estimate it's between 1000 and 1100 mAh.Overall impressions:The flashlight is not real bright, but good enough for most general tasks in the dark. There are no brightness or flash modes, just simply on or off.The radio works well enough - the volume goes up very rapidly with the volume control - at 10% of the way, it's already quite loud. I haven't tried it all the way up. The tuning is quite sensitive (tuning changes quickly with slow turning of the dial), but not too sensitive to be able to tune to stations when you're careful. Sound quality is thin and bright, but who cares - this isn't for music listening. There is no headphone jack. The antenna works fine for FM and Wideband, it's kind of short, but helps with reception.The charging crank turns fine, but it takes work to do so. One minute of cranking makes my hands tired and a bit sore. Five minutes of cranking is alot of work! Part of the problem is that it is hard to find a good place to hold the unit while cranking without having to grip it harder than you should have to. Also, the knob that you hold on the crank is somewhat small. But for a minute at a time it's all fine.You can charge the unit via USB with the included cable, which is definitely the easy way to accomplish that. You can also charge external devices from the internal battery. I don't know the output current that it provides, but it charges my iPhone 5. More details below.I made a few tests for your info:With the unit completely drained, I cranked 130 revolutions (about 1 minute) and then turned on the flashlight. The first 20 minutes shone normally, then started to get dimmer and dimmer. But it kept shining. And shining. And shining. Finally, after over 9 hours of constant dim light I turned on the radio at the same time and very shortly everything went out. Who knows how much longer it would have shone on. Bear in mind almost all of those 9 hours were very dim light, but in total darkness, still very useful to not trip on things when pointed at your feet and do normal tasks when pointed at what you're doing. Good for emergencies.Then with the unit completely drained again, I cranked 130 turns and then turned on the radio. With moderate volume, it played for 12 minutes before dying.How about charging phones? I have a rather old iPhone 5. With the flashlight completely drained, I cranked 1300 turns (10 minutes) - no small feat! Then I plugged in my phone to charge from the unit. It added about 2% to my phone battery before it stopped charging. I then placed a phone call (all with no cellular data, wifi, or location services on, and in low battery mode). My call lasted for 5-6 minutes until those 2% had been used. Bear in mind that my phone battery is not what it used to be so your mileage my vary.I also tested the capacity by charging the unit fully via USB. I'm not sure how long that took, but for sure less than 6 hours. Then I charged my iPhone 5 (again with the battery saving settings in place). It raised my phone battery level by 75% before it stopped charging. That took just over an hour.Another thing I tested: with the unit fully discharged, I connected my phone and started cranking. While cranking it was providing charge to my phone.I haven't specifically tested the solar charging, but I did set it in the sun and it looked to be charging. Actually, even under bright indoor lights it shows as charging.

I now feel safe in the event my electricity goes off. This magical little tool can be charged by the sun, the wall outlet or the crank. The flashlight beam is bright with the button easy to operate. The radio is clear even without the provide aerial. The backpack size is my favorite feature. Now I can easily take the radio with me on bike rides

Came in handy during this recent round of Tornados that knocked out the power. The light shines very bright, I could access weather stations as well as music station with ease. The only thing I didn't like it takes a very long time to charge my phone. But maybe I'm just use to using the Fast charger. This is a very good tool to have around the house and in your "Go" bag.

I had an experience recently where I needed a flashlight quickly, a phone flashlight was not going to cut it in this situation. The baby bobcat was injured, it was late at night and the neighbor and I could only use our phone flashlights as we waited for the wildlife rescue to arrive in pure darkness. The bobcat was rescued and taken to the wildlife vet hospital and I finally went inside to pray about the kitty and I immediately started to look for flashlights for the visit and one for the car and one at the barn. I ended up buying 3 of these flashlights. I had to use one last night at the ranch to find something that had fallen in the barn tack room and the ceiling light wasn’t bright enough for this certain corner. The flashlight worked and was amazing. I am recommending this to all my friends.

Pretty awesome little radio. Stays charged a long time. Solar helps but doesn't really charge the battery just makes it last longer.

Love it. I have bought three of these!

Nice Little radio for an emergency kit

I originally bought this for camping since it is small, has a weather band, and has solar and hand crank charging capabilities.I've seen reviews that are critical of the sound quality. Considering it has a 1-in speaker it's as good as you can hope for; that is, the music is tolerable, tinny but tolerable. Voice quality, for example on weather radio, is very usable. It does maintain a charge sitting inside on a window sill (which admittedly reduces the amount of power the sunlight can deliver after being partially reflected and also filtered by the window glass.)The hand crank works about as described. You have to figure out how to hold it: hold the radio in your left hand and keep your fingers on the edges, then turn the crank with your right hand. It is more work than you might think to get a significant charge, but it's a usable system if you had a dead battery and were out in the boonies needing to get a weather report.The flashlight is phenomenal. I ended up using it on a fairly regular basis simply as a flashlight. I keep it on the windowsill near the back door, and it's easy to operate in the dark. It has a very bright beam which is more than enough for walking in the country with no lights around. It also shoots a pretty good beam about a hundred yards, which is handy for spotting critters out in the gloom.Up until last month, it did a fine job of being a regular flashlight and occasional weather radio. With no warning, it bricked; it didn't get dropped and the battery didn't appear to decline. It just refused to turn on or accept a charge. Since it was slightly out of the warranty. I decided to take it apart and look for trouble. There were no obvious problems with the circuit board or wires. The battery was somewhat swollen, however.There is a lot of electronic circuitry packed in a small case! It's surprising they can sell it for anything under $50. Typically, a dead battery still has a volt or at least a few millivolts left. This one had absolutely nothing. One time the radio got left on at inaudible low volume and ran the battery down. Perhaps this happened again and drove the battery into deep discharge. The mystery is that it wouldn't show a charge plugged into the USB, or with the crank, or in sunlight.I thought I would ask customer support if they had any notion whether it might be a cracked circuit board or maybe some kind of protective circuitry with the battery that would prevent the charge light from coming on if the battery was in deep discharge. To my surprise, they asked if I would send them a video of what the radio was or wasn't doing. They said they would probably replace it. I was surprised since they could have simply dismissed it as out of warranty a month. Instead, they very politely asked for proof of purchase, a video, and my shipping address. A replacement arrived in 3 days!Once again, I'm a happy camper, literally! I am blown away by how prompt, helpful and supportive they were.This radio fulfills its purpose with flying colors (with the caveat that its small battery is not going to do a whole lot to charge a dead cell phone). In an emergency, with some patient cranking, it could charge a cell phone sufficiently to get help. It's a great emergency and camping radio as well as a very usable flashlight. The customer service has been good earlier.Update 10/26/23: the first radio brick after about a year. I was able to contact customer service with questions about it and they replaced the radio. That one lasted nearly a year and a half. Now, the flashlight flashes like an emergency beacon, but will not produce a steady beam anymore. I would like to contact customer service but I can no longer find a link either on Amazon or at runningsnail.com. they have a web address info at runningsnail.com, but I'm getting a message that that no longer exists. It seems that this radio is good for about a year to a year and a half and then we'll need to be replaced. At $20 a year that is an option to consider. It may last longer if it's not used. I used mine as a flashlight probably every week. It is now only good for a strobe light at a party. The previous one is only good as a paperweight. I think I'll try at an American product, albeit more expensive.