Comments on: A review of the Apple iPod Radio Remote

By: pedestrian thoughts - » New York: visit 3, day 1

pedestrian thoughts - » New York: visit 3, day 1 — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 00:34:31 +0000

[...] about mid-town. Bought an FM radio for the iPod, which isn’t as crap as James Cridland would have you believe, had a look around the pure glamour that is Times Square, and went for a hot chocolate with TONY, [...]

By: machinecode

machinecode — Sat, 08 Jul 2006 10:59:00 +0000

Hi,
the Fm Radio receptionon the NOKIA phones is far better than this iPod add on. I was disappointed how sensitive it was to the signal, and still I have not ben able to get the RDS data to dispaly on the iPods screen, that will be due to the poor signal…

By: gomem

gomem — Sat, 11 Mar 2006 16:50:00 +0000

Just bought one of these radio remote thingies, and the one I got here definately does STEREO. However it requires a quite strong signal to get stereo reception, however walking down the street or riding on a bus while listening to the radio causes the stereo to drop to MONO quite frequently.

On the other hand I found the RDS to be rather flakey/non-existant. Here in Bristol we got all the BBC stations, 1 BBC local, and 3 commercial stations at quite good signal strength. And the RDS Radiotext from only one station was displayed on my iPod 5G and iPod Nano. I also got a portable Roberts FM/AM radio located in the same room, and that displays the RDS Radiotext from all the stations perfectly.

By: martin

martin — Sat, 25 Feb 2006 18:49:00 +0000

According to Apple's FAQ page, changing the country does change de-emphasis. But interestingly, if you set it to USA, then it'll use RDS PS, rather than RT. No mention of stereo, though.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 25 Feb 2006 17:10:00 +0000

It’s not got stereo on it. Let me say that again: it’s not got stereo on it.
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