- Charges your iPod while it is playing, transmits crisp, clear music through your car stereo speakers, and mounts the iPod using two jointed charger arms
- Right where you can access it while driving, no matter where your cigarette lighter is located
- No batteries to run out every few hours -- uses battery power from the iPod itself
- No tangle of wires connected to the iPod on the seat, the dash or in a cup holder
- Fits any car, is compact and sports an elegant, seamless design
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9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Neat in car solution for you iPod,
By N_C (UK) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Transpod FM for new iPod & iPod mini (Electronics)
Summary: neat solution and acceptable sound qualityThis is a good piece of kit for people who haven't got a cassette player or an aux input in their car (probably most people these days!). It looks the part, being iPod-white and charges your pod from the lighter socket. I used the dash-mount option but stuck it on using one of those rubber pads that you fix rear-view mirrors rather than the screws (£1.99 for 2 in Halfords). The Transpod does come with a complicated Heath-Robinson type system of brackets that allow the device to mount directly to the cigarette lighter socket but it was very wobbly on my car and the dash-mount seems much better. Sound quality isn't fantstic - in particular there can be a lot of hard-disc noise when the iPod is cacheing data for a new song, but this soon stops. Overall, I'd say that as an all-in-one solution the Transpod FM avoids having wires everywhere and does the job pretty well.
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4.1 out of 5 stars (162 customer reviews) 131 of 132 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Some aesthetic drawbacks but the best solution I've found,
By J. Villeneuve "jayvil" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Transpod FM for new iPod & iPod mini (Electronics)
This is not my first attempt at finding an FM transmitter, but so far it's the best solution I've found.
My first try was with an iTrip and a Belkin car charger for my 4G iPod. I also needed a Belkin TuneDock to hold everything. Because the iTrip looked cool and was very portable I tended to overlook its very poor sound and frequent signal drift. The fact that you can not just tune the iTrip on the fly made this more and more of an issue. If you lost a station, you had to stop whatever was playing and go select another iTrip station by playing it on the iPod. Not convenient. Then the iTrip and charge both stopped working - so I started shopping. Next, I tried a Soundfeeder. This has a manual tuning knob so at least I could tune around signal drift. But this was a hassle and it ran on AA batteries and the signal really degraded as the battery wore out. So, I went for the "All-in-one" solution... The Transpod just works! I have had absolutely ZERO signal drift. This is on the same station and the same commute I did hundreds of times with the iTrip and Soundfeeder, and they faded or had dead spots a few times per trip. So, I am a big fan of the signal. The dock with its built in charging and tuning buttons is a very big plus. No used cupholders from the TuneDock and the adjustable arms allowed me to place the dock as out of the way as needed. I haven't had to tune to a new station (have I mentioned how great that is), but if I did, the buttons are right there. Now, I have had the iPod bump out of the dock and cause the sound in the left speakers to die before I pushed it back down, but I can live with that. Also, the adjustable arms are not exactly "sexy". It's a bit clunky, but I was after FUNCTION and I just wanted to stop having to adjust things while driving instead of listening. I don't have any issue with the quality of the material. PROS: Signal strength; All-in-one transmitter, charger, holder minimizes hassle; ease of tuning; adjustable arm for positioning CON: Not very attractive with all the arms snaking up your console. Not "ugly", just sort of "low-tech". That CON was not enough for me to lower the 5-star ranking. 34 of 38 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Pretty Good Quality ... Poor Design,
By Ron Sullivan - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Transpod FM for new iPod & iPod mini (Electronics)
As far as pure quality goes, this FM transmitter is probably one of the better ones out there. The sound quality and signal are both really nice; not CD quality, mind you, but I'd feel comfortable saying it's at least as good as broadcast quality.
My gripe is really just over aesthetics. It's simply a really clunky unit. I lease my car and didn't like the idea of (physically) mounting the unit to the dashboard and it's a little too heavy to use double-sided tape. Not to mention that if I tried to mount it, the only spot I could put it placed it too far away to control. That left me with using the cigarette lighter adapter. That seems to work pretty well, but it has a penchant for being top-heavy and spilling over when I take a hard turn. I also can't use that unit in my wife's car because it gets in the way of the shifter. I know it's a drop-off in sound quality, but I really seem to prefer the versatility that the iTrip, TuneDock, and seperate power adapter give. If I had to do it again, that's the direction I would have taken. 14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Excellent Transmitter,
By Where in the World - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Transpod FM for new iPod & iPod mini (Electronics)
Let's start with what I have; IPod Photo (40GB), Toyota Echo (2000) with the stock radio and speakers.
The cons of this item. One person mentioned that displeasure with the extension and I agree. In my echo, with the extension arm, it is unstable. The only other cons that I can mention is that when I shift to 5th gear, because of the location of my lighter, I have to watch my knuckles. The stick does not hit the transmitter, but my gorilla knuckles do. That is a flaw with the car, not the transmitter. Now, for the pros. The instructions recommend the antenna being extended, I actually found that having it retracted was better. My radio will pick up the IPod over another radio station. I purposely tuned to a local station and set the transmitter to the same frequency and it locked on the IPod (Which is really great for here in Europe). I only had one, possible, drift, but that could have been the track. With this transmitter, I have taken all the CD's out of my car! I have my IPod and this. I do not need anything else! Lastly, I am no expert on exact sound quality, but to me, it sounds as good as my CD player in the car. I definately would recommend this to anyone. Follow Up: Even a better; a couple of days ago, some friends and I were washing our cars. For curiousity's sake, we tried to see if their radios would pick up the signal. They did, as far as 30 feet away. All of this was on a commercial station that we knew had a decent signal. One of the guys had a Belkin transmitter (mind you, battery powered) tuned to the same station. It picked up the DLO over his Belkin. Just something else to think about... |
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