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pamelah · Apr 23, 2003, 02:06 PM

http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/2003/04/23/ifm/

AWESOME!! just what I've always wanted!!!

I can't wait

dampeoples · Apr 23, 2003, 02:38 PM

i wonder how long until Apple includes this. Still a nice deal for the newer iPods, although it seems my original 5GB won't work

pamelah · Apr 23, 2003, 02:39 PM

5 gig will work, you just need to pick up the remote for it.

Camali · Apr 23, 2003, 03:19 PM

Whats the difference between iFM and the iTrip?

I'd like to get one, but don't know what one offers over the other. Prices seems the same.

pamelah · Apr 23, 2003, 03:22 PM

Originally posted by Camali:
Whats the difference between iFM and the iTrip?

I'd like to get one, but don't know what one offers over the other. Prices seems the same.

If you checked out griffin and the site I posted it pretty clearly states the difference.

iTRIP = you can play your ipod music THROUGH your radio

iFM = you can listen to RADIO STATIONS through your ipod

that's one thing that has always bugged me about cd players...that there is rarely a good radio on them.

boardsurfer · Apr 23, 2003, 03:23 PM

edit: Pamelah beat me.

Camali · Apr 23, 2003, 03:38 PM

I always read things wrong!

Thanks for POINTING it out to me!

pamelah · Apr 23, 2003, 03:40 PM

Originally posted by Camali:
I always read things wrong!

Thanks for POINTING it out to me!

anytime....DUMBASS!

LOL. just kidding. been watching too much Red on "that 70's show"

GORDYmac · Apr 23, 2003, 03:47 PM

I don't know. It seems cumbersome to me. Who needs all of that stuff lugging around. It seems that the only need for the iPod itself is for power. Geesh, just stick a AA in it and be done with it. Why does it have to be so big and awkward?

I won't buy this. However, Griffin is still the coolest non-Apple Mac hardware developer. I'm still waiting on my iTrip. 2 days to go...

chabig · Apr 23, 2003, 04:45 PM

iFM = you can listen to RADIO STATIONS through your ipod

While the iFM looks cool, you still plug your headphones into it, not the iPod. Therefore, you are not really listening to the radio THROUGH your iPod. Apparently, all the iPod does is supply power to the iFM and control the FM tuning through the iPod screen somehow.

So I don't really see the benefit. You might as well just get a small FM radio.

pamelah · Apr 23, 2003, 04:50 PM

You people have GOT to be on crack. How can this NOT be a good thing?! Right now we plug our headphones into a remote control clip. With the iFM it is the same thing! But instead of just a remote, you get a freaking FM radio! Have you seen it?? It's TINY!

But maybe your right Chabig...maybe it's better to carry around 2 devices instead of one.

Kenneth · Apr 23, 2003, 05:23 PM

About the iTrip.. when are they showing up in the store? I'm having a trip this weekend which involve with a lot of driving. I wish I can get one in COMPUSA by this Friday.

Severed Hand of Skywalker · Apr 23, 2003, 05:51 PM

You people actually listen to the radio? I gave up on it 2 years ago as 4 songs and hour + talk talk talk, station promo station promo, DJ yabber yabber yabber ad ad ad drove me nuts.

GORDYmac · Apr 23, 2003, 06:26 PM

It's not tiny. The iPod remote is barely minimalist at best, and this thing holds it. With the remote installed, it looks to take up about 30-40% of the total area of the device. Which means that the iFM is roughly 2.5 to 3x the size of the iPod remote, and thats only considering the frontal view. Curiously, there's no picture of the iFM with an iPod on Griffin's website.

One more thing, chabig, don't assume that the iPod will, in any way, communicate with the iFM. That is mentioned nowhere that I have read. The iPod remote tunes iFM when iFM is powered up, and iPod when iFM is off. There seems to be no graphical feedback whatsoever.

While a novel concept, I don't think I'll buy it. It seems that iFM could have been designed similar to the iTrip's design, you wouldn't have an issue with the remote cord or bulkiness that way.

If you need a radio, a better option is out there, somewhere. I don't want my belt look like a cheap Batman Utility Belt when I want to listen to the radio.

Gordy's $ 0.02

slider · Apr 23, 2003, 08:56 PM

Originally posted by Severed Hand of Skywalker:
You people actually listen to the radio? I gave up on it 2 years ago as 4 songs and hour + talk talk talk, station promo station promo, DJ yabber yabber yabber ad ad ad drove me nuts.

I agree. Each his own I suppose.