By: David E Thomas

David E Thomas — Sun, 19 Apr 2020 01:17:38 +0000

The Pure Evoke 3 (which was once Pure’s top-of-the-range DAB radio) used to offer a ‘Pause and Rewind’ feature as well as a ‘recording (onto SD cards) feature’. Unfortunately however neither of these advanced facilities appear to be any longer offered as part of the specification of any of Messrs Pure’s current DAB radio product range!
Moreover Pure does not appear to any longer offer any radio product which features a simple ‘Alexa-style’ speaking facility (i.e. ‘Voice Feedback Technology’) either. This, seemingly only former now, Pure feature included a ‘speak the time’ facility. This, now apparently completely lost, feature was a very useful one for both sighted people at night and, far more importantly, for blind people at any time of the day! This now apparently ‘superseded’ (by what precisely though? By nothing in fact!) Pure radio feature was accessed by tapping the touch-sensitive’ alarm ‘snooze’ handle on top of the set which also acted as the ‘speak to me’ activator. Whilst there are a number of current Pure Evoke radios which still feature a curved metal set-top ‘snooze’ handle all such handles are only, now, it seems. single-feature alarm ‘snooze’ handles which do not offer the additional facility of a ‘speak to me’ feature which this writer’s now catastrophically failed, completely silent, non-functioning, and, according to Messrs (“planned obsolescence”?) Pure, completely irreparable, Pure Sonus-1XT once used to do!
Even more frustrating however is the thought that it is overwhelmingly likely that it is only a tiny internal electronic component which has failed somewhere inside this writer’s failed Pure Sonus-1XT radio set which has permanently silenced it. Which is a bit like one’s garage curtly informing one that one’s car must be sent to the scrapyard because one of its spark plugs has stopped working!
What a massive backward step Pure have taken by deleting so many formerly very useful features from their current product line which certain older Pure models did feature!
The unpalatable fact that in comparison with their former offerings blind and partially sighted radio users are now being actively discriminated against when it comes to a consideration of Messrs Pure’s entire current product range is both particularly unsettling and, frankly, quite unacceptable!
What price “progress”?
In Messrs Pure’s world “progress” seems to mean ‘taking one step forward and then several steps backward’!

By: PAUL

PAUL — Mon, 26 Aug 2019 23:55:02 +0000

My Evoke-3 still functions, it’s just a pity it’s not upgradable to DAB+, as more and more stations seem to be going that way.

By: Adrian

Adrian — Fri, 16 Aug 2019 12:53:09 +0000

Mine died recently – some kind of short on the power board – and took out the power supply. Nasty smell from inside too.
Still works on batteries though.

By: Peter

Peter — Fri, 22 Mar 2019 18:43:26 +0000

What a pity the Pure Evoke 3 was discontinued, fortunately mine still works and I have bought 2 more second hand. It could record onto SD card with a timer, I can get about 25 hours of speech radio on a 2 MB card and never miss the Archers!

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