Griffin iTrip FM Transmitter for iPod
Do not buy this piece of crap.
I’ve had an iPod for a few years now and one thing is for certain a lot of the accessories are a rip off, poorly made, or downright terrible. This is one of them.
For the longest time I had just run with the old fashioned cassette adaptor so that I could listen to tunes in my ride from my iPod. Everyone always asks: “Why don’t you get one of those ones that will play on the radio?”. My response was always that I would have bought one, but the day I went to get one they didn’t ahve any so I bought a cassette and it works fine.
So I broke down one day and bought this thing with out reasearching any of the options of these, and boy have I been disappointed with it. The biggest thing is that I didn’t realize when I bought it that it connects to the bottom input on your iPod instead of the headphone jack like I thought these things did. I know there are those that do, but I was smart enough to buy one that doesn’t so it not only eats my battery, but I can’t even charge it while I listen. Since I let the thing run down to dead most of the time before I do charge it this thing eats the battery alive when I use it. At least when I had the cassette I could get my charge in while I drove, but not with this thing.
Another issue compared to the cheapie cassette is that it sounds like I am holding a pillow over the speakers. Same song with this compared to the cassette is a totally different world. CD quality sound my ass. Doesn’t matter what station you put it on, that is if you can get it to actually connect to a station other than the default one that it starts with, it sounds muffled. Terrible sound quality and I was expecting better sound quality than the cassette. The laugh is on me my friends. It sucks.
I guess you can get this now for 30 bucks, but I got it in December and it cost me $50 at Best Buy. Damn money and that hole it burns in my pocket. I usually research this kind of stuff before I buy it, but I was on a spending spree that day I guess with Christmas coming up. Figured I’d get myself something since I already spent so much on everyone else. This thing was one of my cousin’s first communion gifts too last month and I laughed when he got it. Poor kid. I didn’t have the heart to tell him, or my uncle that bought it for him, it was such a junker.
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Filed under: Portable Media by JMH
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only if you’d spend a little time researching or had someone else do it for you it would’ve saved you a lot of headache. also always try google for coupons or deals etc.. i find when it comes to tech gizmos you can save a bundle online.
This is truly a great post and I am not just spamming you with that. I laughed my butt off. One because it is good comments and two because I know what you mean and it pisses me off that I have to blast my radio on my car and I run into audio interference with other ipods.
LOL…I agree. It is just worthless to me. I have been using the cassette again and it sounds much better than this does.
I really like my ipad tablet pc a lot, its a little awkward to type on however it doesnt matter, the other options more then make up for it.
Well, this is fine, however think about the other choices we have here? Do you mind publishing a further article regarding them also? Thanks!
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