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.

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

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…