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 WILL NOT CHARGE FIFTH GEN. NANO November 1, 2009
A. Coleman (Virginia)
This is a great product and both charges and plays great with my old IPOD NANO, but I recently bought a new FIFTH GENERATION IPOD NANO (16 gig) and it plays great BUT THE CHARGING FUNCTION WON'T WORK.
Easy to set up, but still sounds fuzzy October 30, 2009
C. Miller (Indianapolis)
This item looks nice and it is easy to do the hack that is described at the top of the reviews to set the frequency to 87.9, however there is still a good amount of fuzzyness that tends to come and go randomly, both in the city and in the middle of nowhere. My next car will have a built in aux jack for my ipod.
 Excellent Product October 30, 2009
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I purchased many FM transformer and all of them very pad signal. but this product is excellent.
Great! October 30, 2009
D. Truman (Baton Rouge, La USA)
I bought two of these for my parents back in December of 2005 to go along with their new iPods. 4 years later, they are still going.
Now, since then, the plastic shielding on the iPod end has come off. Because of this, the wires have come loose and it doen't charge any more. However, up until then, it worked beautifully.
Charging time is great. It can be dead when you plug it in, go grab some groceries, and be back at your car with ATLEAST half of a full charge or so.
Sound quality is great; though you may have to find the "sweet spot" in your car for it depending on the station you use.
All-in-all, it is great, and you will not be disappointed
 It's Cute and Convenient, But... October 28, 2009
T. Adlam (South Florida, USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
When it comes to electronics, I tend to wait a few months to leave a review because by that time, the "Ooooo SHINY!!" effect should have worn off. And so it has for the Griffin iTrip FM Transmitter/iPod Charger.
This was purchased as a replacement for the DLO Transpod (which was great, and *still* works some three years later) because of a new addition to my iPod family. Out of the box I was dismayed because it didn't allow me to set frequency 87.9, which is what I used before, and their instructions for altering this were nonexistent. It was another Amazon reviewer who offered a tip for circumventing this drawback.
From there, everything was smooth sailing...except that it stopped remembering my previous station. As one of the features touted, it would remember your last used station when you re-start the car. This feature worked for about two months, then stopped. Yes, just like that. Luckily I'd set 87.9 as a preset so I'd just need to push the button a time or two, but it was an annoyance always hearing blaring static for a few seconds while I find the transmitter and scramble to plug in the iPod.
Another feature, which turned out to be a detriment, was the automatic shut-off. After about a minute of not being used or receiving a signal from the iPod, it will turn itself off. This might not seem like a bad idea until you start messing around with your playlist while deciding what to listen to before pulling out of the driveway. For some people, this can take a few minutes. Or, if you pause a song (such as when you're at a drive-through) for too long. When it turns off, the static comes back. And as far as I can tell, there was no way to disable this feature or prolong the time period.
Which brings me to the matter of the instructions. Tiny print on a tiny sheet of paper folded somewhere short of a billion times and said exactly nothing. OK, maybe a little more than nothing; it did tell you how to turn on the device and set your presets, but beyond that, nothing.
Despite these inconveniences, it did what it said it would: It allowed me to listen to my iPod in the car using an open FM frequency. The sound quality was sketchy which meant I had to turn up the volume quite a bit, but I also live in a major city; interference is a fact of life.
My iPod Video and 3rd Gen Nano played and charged (even while the music was playing or not) as advertised. The same couldn't be said for newer Apple i-products. My current 4th Gen Nano plays, but it does not charge, and always boots me back to the main menu, even if I'm on a playlist, once the iTrip turns on. In other words, 4th Gen Nano and iTrip do not play well together, but they do play. Which can't be said for the latest iPod Touch and iPhone. They won't even be acknowledged by the iTrip--no music, no power. And after a minute...it just shuts off.
Now, a year later, the iTrip is no more. One afternoon the side release button popped off. In case you're wondering, I did nothing out of the ordinary and I'm not in the habit of abusing my electronics, so this to me is a testament to its lack of durability under normal use.
So to sum up: This product has a great design--small and convenient--and, for the most part, does as it says, but has its drawbacks when it comes to flexibility with frequencies, non- or ill-functioning features, poor instructions, its range of i-product support*, and durability.
*In the product's defense, it does explicitly state which i-products it will support.
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