I received one of these as a gift and I’m pretty happy with it. Just design docks so that it can handle this additional stress on the connector. That’s not a recommended configuration, but I’ve never really understood why. Oh, and the display on the front? Settable brightness and it shows the date too, which is doubtless handy if you have it on a desk.Īs with most iPod / iPhone devices, there are plastic inserts to make the dock the right size for your favorite device, but since I switch back and forth and - most importantly, dock my iPhone while it’s in a case - I always just toss them all and leave it “naked”. It’s a pretty slick unit anyway and with its simple remote control and ability to sync time off the iPhone or iPod directly, it’s easy to keep the clock on the correct date and time. More than once I’d have to pull the device off the dock, power down the unit, power it back up and redock it for things to work. One more complaint: the dock got confused sometimes when I was switching between my iPhone 4 and my iPod and I’d see the device think it was playing audio, but nothing was coming out of the iP90. Part of this is the signal encoding system but I can’t help but think that in this day and age some sort of dynamic range expansion filter for AM would be greatly appreciated by consumers. It’s a marked and noticeable improvement in audio range when you switch from AM to FM. In fact, my favorite FM station has a disappointingly weak signal, though fiddling with the included scrawny $0.05 FM antenna makes a tiny improvement.įurther, the audio quality of the AM stations, even when tuned in and with a decently strong signal, isn’t very good. Yes, perhaps I shouldn’t admit it, but I listen to the radio, not just Internet audio sources.
I don’t know if it’s because I live on the very edge of the Rocky Mountains, but I have yet to find a radio that has clear AM and FM reception. Let’s get the bad out of the way first, though.
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