The interface is a bit awkward to use at first with a combination of swipes from each side of the screen to do certain things. While it’s not the easiest solution to use it does work on the limited screen space it has to offer.

The device feels quite fast and snappy in most cases, the album art could load faster but that’s just nitpicking. The one thing I found really annoying with Tidal is typing, it uses an old style keyboard with buttons that cycle through the letters. I wish this could be changed.

Another small gripe is not being able to play through album artist, this results in something like movie soundtracks or multi artist albums to get split and there’s no easy way of finding them unless you have those saved as playlists which is going around the problem rather than fixing it.

Finally bugs and playback stopping randomly. This is an intermittent problem which doesn’t seem to have any particular cause, at some points a song will refuse to play, then the player needs to be restarted to resume playback. Hopefully this happens every now and again.



Battery life is pretty much as advertised, around 10 hours, and standby barely uses any battery so you can live it on all the time without loosing much of the battery.