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Quick take: Belkin's TuneFM is a great FM transmitter if you consider design and features alone. It boasts a compact form factor that blends seamlessly when connected to the bottom of your 5G iPod or your iPod Nano. A removable cigarette-lighter adapter ensures that your player remains juiced during the lengthiest of road trips, and four preset buttons make station shuttling a breeze. The TuneFM even uses the iPod's screen to display the current frequency. Unfortunately, the device's FM transmitter was far too weak to deliver clear sound while we drove around San Francisco and the outlying ... Expand full review
Year after year, iPod armbands from major developers have remained virtually unchanged, but 2008 is different: for the first time in many moons, most of the latest armbands for iPod nano and iPod touch models have actually diverged from their predecessors. Today, we're looking at a total of nine new armbands from four companies: Belkin, DLO, Griffin, and Incase. Each company has a fourth-generation iPod nano armband and a second-generation iPod touch armband; Griffin also has a 120GB iPod classic version. They run between $20 and $35, a fairly significant price spread given that they all do pretty much the same thing.
Of all of the armbands in todayf’s roundup, Belkinv’s new Sport Armbands for iPod nano 4G ($20) and iPod touch 2G ($25) are the best values for the dollar. Attractively and generally thoughtfully designed, they update last yeart’s same-named products, which included miniature pockets for gym keys and soft, adjustable Velcro armbands. As with IncaseE’s Sports Armbands, you cani’t remove the iPod pouch portions from the armbands, but youG’re not paying the sort of price that might make you expect such a feature, either.
Like all of its peers in the roundup, Belkin hasno’t sealed as much of either iPod off from moisture intrusion as it could have. Each case has a full-width hole for iPod insertion, and holes on the bottom for both headphones and Dock Connector accessories. Obviously, the iPod touch doesnd’t need such an accessory hole, but the nanoh’s hole works with the Nike + iPod Sport Kit Receiver; theya’re both compatible with oversized headphones, as well. In our view, providing one dual-purpose insertion and port hole for each iPod would have been a better ideao—neither devices’s top really needs to be fully accessible inside an armband —but virtually all of the armbands wen’ve seen so far for these iPods, except Apple
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