Belkin TuneFM Radio Transmitter Review

Belkin's TuneFM radio broadcaster for the iPod has been kicking around for about a year or so and has been met with mixed reviews. The idea is simple enough, plug in the device to your iPod so that you can broadcast music that your stereo can pick up via its FM receiver. This is what a lot of people have to use their iPod in a car that lacks any kind of auxiliary input. While the concept is simple enough it is the implementation that often falls short as is the case with the TuneFM.

The TuneFM allows you to use any FM station between 88.1 MHz and 107.9 MHz. The reviews we have have been reading basically say that the broadcast quality isn't what you would expect. Most peoples reports range from complaining about lackluster audio playback to a very weak single that sounded like crap on their car stereo. There is an entire crop of these FM broadcasting devices and it looks like Belkin either rushed this to market or just missed the mark.

Here is the list of iPods that it is compatible with:

• iPod nano
• 5th generation (video)
• 4th generation (color display)
• 4th generation
• mini

Hopefully they will keep releasing revisions to this so that in the future we can enjoy high quality iPod music in our car as we drive. The are available at Amazon for pretty cheap.

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