Home > Consumer Reviews > FM Transmitter & Car Charger with LCD Screen - for Apple iPod / Iphone / Itouch / Nano - High Quality digital Sound - Automatically powers and recharges battery with car adapter

This product charges your Ipod while listening to it. We found that when you have the backlight on your Ipod, the product will produce a faint hum. Remedy is to turn off the backlight and everything is fine. Sound is not perfect, but overall it's a great product when traveling in the car.

At first, I was very pleased with this. My old Kensington has a cord that gave me problems... like when your old headphones would start "shorting out" and you'd have to play with the cord to hear out of both ears. But this one has a reliable cord, and it also charges your iphone... or so you'd think.

The truth is, I took many trips in this car and had my iphone plugged into this thing for 1/2 hour or more, and never did the charge ever increase noticeably. The best it may do is prevent the iphone from losing its charge, but it doesn't give you more life... that's for sure.

Also, and perhaps most importantly, I began to notice that it just doesn't sound very good. It must be a weak signal or something because my music just wasn't as clear, and the treble sounds seem distorted when turned up a bit.

Fact is... even though my old Kensington doesn't work properly and doesn't charge my iphone, I'm back to using it. This baby "works"... but not very well.

When I first saw this I was so happy to find a tuner that went below 88.1 (living in an urban area free stations are very hard to find). However, yhis is a very underpowered device, and for most of the songs on my Ipod, just doesn't work. I've found that songs that I've ripped with a higher bitrate sound fuzzy when played through this. Most songs I purchased throgh Itunes work decent, but still not great. I've tried taking my ipod out of its case (just in case it was the connection) but no change. Overall, a bad product.

Just returned from a 3-day road trip from Portland up through Seattle to Mt. Baker, in and out of both urban and rural areas, playing both my iPod Classic and our 2G iTouch. Good reception and consistent audio quality throughout the trip, using channel 107.9, without changing stations.