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 Great when it works, but... August 24, 2010
J. M. Wilkinson (Dutton, Michigan, USA)
I have had a Stiletto 2 for a year and until recently was totally satisfied. I connected overnight using a windowsill antenna (without it, there is no signal at all, even with a home wireless network) and recorded 5 hours of music. From time to time, everything I had recorded just disappeared and I had to start over. Then about two weeks ago, the device rebooted in the middle of the night and the boot function got stuck on the next-to-last radio button and has not moved since. I have written to Sirius three times about it and have not received any response from them. Not even an automated response. It is clear to me that there is a hardware issue with the device, which is why it is no longer manufactured and why Sirius apparently does not support it, either.
It is not worth buying for almost $500!
Not a good buy August 2, 2010
John
0 din 2 gasit aceasta revizuire de ajutor
This is flat out a terrbile item to puchse if you wnat to walk around and listen to sirius radio. MP3 player yes ( buy an ipod) but come on sirius you got to be kidding me. Take this off the market its not portable for sirius radio use.
Terrible reception iulie 22, 2010
Many Interests (The South)
0 din 2 gasit aceasta revizuire de ajutor
I would not recommend this product at all. The satellite reception is terrible, even outside. It is completely non-existent indoors.
I very much wanted to like this product. I love my Sirius radio in my vehicle, and never have reception issues with it. Unfortunately, this Stiletto 2 is a very poor product.
 It's great when it works aprilie 29, 2010
R. Schultz (Indiana)
I've had my Stiletto since Christmas. The thing is really great when it is working but... It requires frequent rebooting (removing the battery and restarting) due to several, I'm guessing, software glitches. You can't leave it in the car kit cradle to record your favorite show because they have it designed to not give it antenna signal while the power is off on the cradle. If it is the slightess bit warm in the car it shuts itself off when running on battery when you are trying to record something. Now the thing won't even power up in or out of the cradle. I'm ready to go back to my old reliable X-act. Of course there's the $18 to switch to a different radio.
 Pleasant Surprise; good radio; decent MP3 player aprilie 20, 2010
Shelling out $40 again...
I should point out that I got my Stiletto 2 directly from Sirius for a $100. I would not pay anything more than $150.
As a Satellite receiver, it actually works well. After reading the original reviews, all I can guess is that Sirius updated the system. I can actually listen to the radio inside near the windows using the provided headphones (as one reviewer noted: they aren't that bad; imagine using a typical 1987 headphone set; bulky but not too bad). The battery life is only about 4 hours listening to live radio. Not too convenient if listening on the go or at the beach. You will want to invest in a car kit but again this will not help in all cases.
Wi-Fi: The Wi-fi connection works great. I have used it at home; at a friend's house; at the airport. The only problem I have ever had is at a hotel as it required that the user click on an approval button first on their website (which is not possible on this device). The battery life is amazing when using Wi-Fi; almost 8 - 10 hours long. Yes the streaming quality is low (about 96 or maybe even less)- but the songs still sound good. I should point out that you can use normal head phones when streaming. This means you can plug in the Stiletto when using Wi-Fi, which then gives you infinite listening time.
MP3 Player: It is a decent MP3 player as long as you keep in mind that the MP3 functionality is not the core component of this device. You can add a micro SD card so the amount of listening time can be very large. Unfortunately (at a loss of 1 star), Sirius still makes you use their not-too-easy-to-use software to transfer your music to the device (Sirius did provide access to a third party service - which of course is no longer is business). You cannot use Windows Media Player to transfer nor can you copy your music files directly to the device. The copying of files using the Sirius Stiletto is slow. You can create playlists; however no playlists can use files saved to your micro SD card. Again at the description says - "with MP3 player" - remember this and you will not be disappointed.
**EDIT*** - Forgot to mention that the life when listening to MP3 / "Hearted" Sirius Songs or radio playbacks is well over 15 hours. Again you can plug the Sirius in while listening to MP3s etc. as you can use normal headphones. (FYI: If you listen to a channel a lot, the Stiletto will record the channel in theh background. You can then listen to the channel if you do not have access to any live feeds)
"Heart" function: If you are listening to live radio (ONLY! Does not work with Wi-Fi OR Radio playbacks (i.e. My xxxxx channel if you used the older radios) or if you rewind / fastforward), you can press the "heart" button and the radio will record the song. You can then listen to the song from Sirius at any given time. If you think about it: if you record 1 song a day - within 3 months this radio has basically paid for itself when compared to paying $.99 per song. Sirius only gives you a limited amount of space (although I think many hours worth of songs). Still compare this function to using an IPOD. Finally Sirius did update the menu area for the Sirius recorded music.
Overall if you can get this radio for $150 or less, I believe you will be happy. Sirius seems to have fixed a lot of the quirks of the older models (we had to take back our S50s numerous times as they kept failing) and this model seems to be more stable. The live radio works well (with a short battery life). If you can Wi-Fi, then you will have almost endless listening time. The MP3 player is not that bad but you are forced to use weak software to transfer songs.
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