Sirius Stiletto 2 SL2-PK1 Satellite Radio and MP3 Player

For years, I refused to pay for radio. I was WRONG! I had a rental car with Sirius. It ROCKS! I went out and bought this unit a couple of weeks later. No regrets. Great little unit, Car install took one in a half hours at Circuit City. Works good as a portable unit. One thing I do not like is that Sirius Does Not have all there channels on WiFi. All in All GREAT unit, I would and will recommend to anyone who listens to music.

This piece of crap is the biggest waste of money ever. I returned this thing 4 times for a warranty swap and I would have kept swapping it if the warranty didn't run out. This useless piece of trash will spontaneously delete your saved music/radio shows for no reason. This happens once every 4 to 6 weeks. Nothing is more fun that to tape 20 hours of radio shows with the anticipation of enjoying almost one full day of listening pleasure only to have it stroke out on you and leave you with nothing. Then you have the pleasure of erasing and resetting the unit so that it will start working correctly again. Until it decides to soil itself again, of course. Then you can reload all of your favorite channels again, which is an entertaining activity to engage in once every month or two. On top of that the slimy creeps at Sirius will automatically renew your 2 year contract WITHOUT YOUR PERMISSION so that you can immerse yourself in another 2 years of lousy service. What a pleasure! On top of all that, this hunk of junk is about as technically advanced as "Pong". It can't record on one channel and play a different channel at the same time. It can't record to the micro-sd card. The user interface is clumsy at best. The only thing good about this meadow muffin is the battery life. Have you noticed that they have not introduced any new portable models in over 3 years? That's because Sirius is going to spiral rapidly down the toilet in 2 months after Howard leaves. I take great pleasure in knowing that Sirius will fade into obscurity in the very near future.

It seems the technology of satellite radio does not lend itself to being truly portable. Even with the antenna headphones the reception is spotty when moving around or under light tree cover. Where this device really shines is in its ability to record a huge amount of content and play it back later with outstanding battery life. So, it is not really all that portable. I do use it in the car and in the house interchangeably with no issues. Not a bad device.