 
| About This Product Welcome to the complete in car solution for your iPod/iPhone. This kit has been beautifully designed and works with all iPods and the iPhone (including the new iPhone 3G/3GS). This kit is not only about style, it incorporates three different iPod/iPhone car products in one great package. Firstly you have a convenient and strong cradle to hold your iPod/iPhone securely with an adjustable arm you can position into virtually any position depending on your car. Secondly this car kit once plugged into your iPod/iPhone acts as a charger for pure convenience so you never miss out on a track or phone call again. Finally but most importantly this kit features a FM transmitter which allows you to play your favourite tunes through your car stereo speakers. Simply plug this in car kit into your cigarette lighter, attach your iPod/iPhone, synchronise your in car radio to one of the stations using the digital LCD display and thats it. As for iPhone users you will have one more feature out of this already excellent piece of kit, maybe for you it will be the the best feature of all. If you are listening to music through this transmitter in your car and you receive a call, you will be able to use this item as a complete hands free car kit with audio coming through your car speakers. Your iPod will mute the music being played and notify you of a call coming through which you can just easily accept without having to remove your iPhone from the kit. An integrated USB port has also been added so you can charge up various USB devices. This is a definite must have for any iPod/iPhone car user and a very fine and high quality example. ....read more RRP £. Amazon Price £12.95  Rating Average Customer Rating
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FM Transmitter Car Kit For Apple iPhone 3G
March 17, 2010 By 7 Comments
2 out of 5
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Did not work for I Phone
Rating:1 out of 5 stars
I may have misunderstood but this does not work for I Phone. The phone is too heavy and the wire cannot support it. The FM booster part if it worked fine though. It is lying in a draw not doing anything now.
Not bad!
Rating:3 out of 5 stars
Not bad! its quite heavy and doesn’t always fit in the car lighter slot, plus it sometimes doesn’t connect to the car radio but after a few tries and a few changes it was fine.
Not a happy bunny!
Rating:1 out of 5 stars
This seemed to be the ideal product to enable me to have a hands-free set which could also charge the Iphone;the FM link was an added bonus. However, it proved to be a very unwise investment. It is flimsy, it does not remain in a stationary position when you are driving and the connection with the bottom of the Iphone has clearly been designed by somebody from Mars and DOES NOT WORK! In short, a major disappointment. Save your money.
FM Transmitter Car Kit For Apple iPhone 3G & iPod Nano Touch Classic
Rating:1 out of 5 stars
This item plays music really well from an iPhone 3G. This sadly is where the happiness ends…
This product cannot receive phone calls from an iPhone 3G. whenever a phone call was receive by the phone, the car’s speakers would just buzz and pick up no evidence of the phone call, which means you cannot hear anything to do with the phone call. Even worse than that is the fact that after each and every phone call, which couldn’t really be classed as phone calls, i had to reset the frequency to a different one and back again to be able to hear any music that i was playing before the phone call.
I would definitely NOT recommend this product to anyone because, in my experience it does not work and cannot be used for in car phone calls, which is the purpose of a product like this. For a better product, you would be better off using either a normal bluetooth headset, or a proper more expensive in-car phone system. Nokia has a very good in-car system for about £150, which can be installed by most garages. This is what I Recommend…
IPhone Blues
Rating:3 out of 5 stars
I have now bought 3 FM transmistters and got quite frustrated with all of them until I realsied the problem is actually with the iPhone. It goes like this…
I have a lot of itunes on my iPhone and some were loaded from CD and some were downloaded from the iTunes store. The quality of the sound, (sqeaky or furry background) depends to a large extent on the volume setting on the iPhone. Setting the iPhone to middle volume and using the radio volume control to boost the sound did it for me. But on some of my CD based iTunes I had to put the volume up to get any sound at all. At full volume on the iPhone the itunes ones sounded very distorted so I re-adjusted the volume on the iPhone to the middle and perfect again..
This was true for all the FM transmitters I have purchased and not just this one.
I hope this helps someone
Absolute waste
Rating:2 out of 5 stars
The signals are very week, there is a squeaky sound all the time, it wouldn’t stand straight and keep falling off and the grip is absoultely rubbish. Please don’t waste any money on this one, it is a very poor quality product.
Not a full car kit solution
Rating:3 out of 5 stars
I have a small car and an iPhone. Not going to spring for a full car kit, I thought I’d try this product.
Yes, it is easy to set up and tune in to the radio. There are some station pre-sets which are easy to cycle through, and a clear frequency display, making it pretty straightforward to synchronise stations with the car radio.
The cradle has an admirably robust, short goose-neck plugging into the fag-lighter socket. (Since nobody smokes any more, shouldn’t someone invent a smaller and more convenient car power output system?) While it is strong and stable, it also means that, in many cars, the unit will be inconveniently placed. If you want to use your iPhone’s GPS system, you’ll probably have trouble doing so safely.
Next problem: because it does nothing to supplement the iPhone’s built-in microphone, in my car nobody can hear me if I try to take a call.
If the unit is plugged in to charge, then you must have it fully connected and running through an FM channel to hear any output from the iPhone. It does put the sound through the car’s speakers at a good volume, as long as it is all connected up.
When there is no interference, the sound is rich and clean – way better than the Griffin iTrip I once infuriated my family with on a driving holiday. But you do get still interference on just about every channel, as broadcast signals are so much more powerful than the signal from the unit. In fact, I seem to pick up more radio channels with this unit plugged in than I used to. So in all probability you’ll switch to the radio. And then you’ll miss that incoming call because your iPhone has been silenced by the charger being plugged into its base (why? Is this a preference I can amend?) and it’s a long way out of your line of sight and your eyes are on the road because you are a good driver, not an idiot playing with a gadget while they drive.
So, sad to say, this is not the answer. It’s well enough made and easy to use, with a comically short user guide that covers what it can do in about 40 words. But I should have bough a straight car charger, and a bluetooth headset.
Or a much better car. But there’s a recession on and we’ve all been told to be scared of buying stuff.