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Griffin iTrip LCD Dock Connector for iPod (Black) | 
 enlarge | Brand: Griffin Technology
Category: CE
List Price: $49.99
Buy New: $22.99
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Rating:  11 reviews
Color: Black
Media: Electronics
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: No
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2
Dimensions (in): 5.7 x 1.8 x 6.6
MPN: 4052-TRPSEB
Model: 4052-TRPSEB
UPC: 685387040520
EAN: 0685387040520
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Shipping: Expedited shipping available
Condition: 100% Genuine Brand New Sealed In Original Retail Box - Fast Shipment Within 24 Hour of Payment
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| Features:
| • | Compatibility: iPod touch; iPod nano 1G, 2G, 3G; iPod classic 4G, 5G, 5.5G, 6G | | • | Uses an open FM frequency to play music through your car s FM stereo | | • | One-Touch Tuning: press, release, and the iTrip is tuned | | • | SmartSound technology auto-adjusts signal strength for each frequency | | • | Backlit display for easy viewing in any light |
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Product Description
iTrip broadcasts the music from your iPod to an open FM frequency on your car's FM stereo so you can play your tunes through your car stereo's speakers. New brighter high-contrast display is easier to read in any light while SmartSound technology maximizes the FM radio signal sent by iTrip to your car's FM radio.
Amazon.com Product Description
Use this tiny device to turn any radio into a conduit for your favorite music. Simply plug the iTrip into the docking port of a compatible iPod device and use the one-touch tuning to get connected. New SmartSound technology auto-adjusts signal strength for each frequency, ensuring the best possible quality. A brighter backlit display makes for easy operation, even at night.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 6 more reviews...
 Too underpowered for use October 7, 2008
N. Ramon (Houston, TX)
The previous model of regular iTrip (the 2006 dock connector model) was really good, and could punch through a crowded dial like Houston's. Well, I needed a new one (lost the old one...) and picked up the 2008 model as available.
It's weak.
Even holding it a couple of inches from an antenna, this model is just staticky at best and doesn't come through at all at the worst.
Evidently, the FCC started cracking down on personal FM transmitters that are overpowered right out of the box, and the reason that the previous model was so effective was that, well... it was illegal. Oops.
But DARN, it was good.
Honestly, if you can find one, get the previous dock connector model.
Check your local frequencies August 21, 2008
Jeremy Lyman (Washington, DC)
This is the third (and worst) iTrip I've owned. The signal strength is not high enough to overcome the residual broadcast on ANY frequency in my area (Washington DC). My car has an in-glass antenna that picks up fainter signals and cannot be 'retracted' to provide less performance.
I've ordered another iTrip Auto (my last one was broken by an iPod thief) because I just can't listen to any more static, intermittent dj banter and other interference. I thought I would like the portability (not tethered to the car) of this unit and I'm sure it performs better in more isolated locations, but in an urban environment it just doesn't cut it.
 Way too weak a signal! August 11, 2008
Peskina (Philadelphia)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I bought this product thinking that it would be a great replacement for my old Belkin iTrip, which only allowed you to change radio stations when hooked up to a computer. Boy was I wrong. The signal from this thing is so weak that when you're less than three feet from the car antenna, you can still hearing static while songs are playing. Don't waste your money.
 Best iTrip Yet. July 15, 2008
Brian Nguyen (Sugar Land, TX USA)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
In the past five or so years, I've owned two iTrips. This one is my third. All three performed wonderfully, and withstood heat and humidity like champions. Each one has wonderful reception right out of the box, but after about 2-3 years, begins to fade in and out of tuning. As of yet, this one has had no problems and works wonderfully well. I only wish the backlight was as strong as the previous models.
Very disappointed with the "upgrade" July 11, 2008
K. Reisinger (St. Louis, MO USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
For the past 2 years I have been using an older version of the itrip: (Griffin 9781-TRP30BK iTrip FM Transmitter with Dock Connector for iPod (Black)). I misplaced that iTrip and bought this one as a replacement. This product was a major downgrade from the earlier version because the frequency range for the newer one bottomed out at 88.1. I had been using 87.9 on my old one because no radio station uses that frequency. This newer iTrip supposedly automatically adjusted its signal strength to overpower anything on a certain frequency but when I tried to put it on a frequency with complete static, the iTrip would not overpower it. Yet somehow it was able to overpower a select group of full stations (although the static was so bad that if I wasn't holding it and using my body as an amplifier I would just hear the radio station). I strongly recommend to anyone, especially those near big cities, to go with the older model which I included earlier in this review.
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