Car-Phone-Accessories Reviews

My mom has one of these and It's very helpful. There are games on my cellphone in which I take in the car for entertainment, and when it runs out of batteries, i can depend on this recharger. It recharges fast so I can play, play away!

Finding a good handsfree set isn't easy! I needed one for my motorola v60 phone which didn't require modifying my leased car. This model sits in the cupholder. You will have to see if it will fit in your particular car's cupholder. The speaker part is shaped like a cyclinder and will sit your car's cupholder. From this base there is a power cord that plugs into the cigarette lighter. There is a thin retractable cord that will connect to your phone and another one which houses the external microphone. The kit also includes a stick on "holster" that your phone sits in while in use in the car.
I don't use the phone constantly while driving so when it's not in use, the retractable ext microphone and cord that plugs into the phone is retracted and tucked away. The projected sound quality i.e. your voice is good due to the external microphone. The speaker is adequately strong and projects the other person nicely. Overall this handsfree is significantly better than the earlier generation motorola handsfree which lacked an external microphone.

Dont buy the iRock. First of all, it eats batteries like a madman! Second, when you move it, it distorts the sound on the radio. Third, it only has 4 stations, and if there is a station broadcasting on any of thoes, it runs over and distorts the sound on the other 3. Fourth, after taking care of it, and using it for about 3 weeks, the wires in the conector from the mini-jack to the transmitter broke, and now they short circuit, draning batteries and distorting the sound even more!

My sugestion, if it is for an iPod, buy a Griffin Technology iTrip. They are great!! If not for an iPod, get a cassette adapter.

I got one of these for a 12 hour road trip with a friend. First of all, there are only four frequencies to choose from, and they are all right together. If there is a good station transmitting on anything near that, you are out of luck. My friend ended up having to hold the stupid thing the whole time to get a good signal out of it. We spent a LOT more time trying to get it to be useable than we did enjoying our tunes.

That's the short of it - don't waste your money on this one.

There are FM transmitters that do work just fine. The one I got after the iRock disaster was the iTrip from Griffin Technology. You can transmit on any frequency on the band, and you can even get international frequencies from their website. If your car can pick up, say 80.5 (it has to be a foreign car) you can use that frequency on the iTrip. It's awesome! The iTrip isn't sensitive like the iRock, either. You can turn your songs on and throw your iPod in the seat next to you, and you don't have to worry about the sound getting staticky. Oh yeah, and you don't have to have a battery for it either. It steals a tiny bit of juice from the iPod.

My old battery draining iRock has now had the (depleted in less than a day) battery removed and is one of my cat's favorite toys.

I bought this unit to use with an MP3 player. It has four different frequencies to choose from (88.1/88.3/88.5/88.7 MHz) and uses two AAA batteries. It simply plugs into the headphone mini stereo jack with a very short cable and has a simple power on/off button with LED indicator.
I found that for my car stereo to receive the signal from the Irock! it needs to sit within 2-3 feet of the antenna. This requirement leaves me only one choice for placement and that is on the passenger side dash. Unfortunately the placement means that every time I turn a corner the Irock! and my MP3 player slide across, and often off, my dash. If I had a car with the antenna in the back this would have been useless.
The low power of this unit allows even very distant FM channels to interfere with reception and causes me to retune to one of the other channel selections often. Also I expected longer battery life, while I can get up to 6 hours on a set of batteries I find that the power output drops quickly after the first 2 hours and requires new batteries or the 2-3 foot antenna distance drops further.
While usable I would not recommend it to any one traveling where there is a possibility of moderate to strong FM in the units operating frequency range.

I have the Ericsson 280 cellular web phone, and this does NOT fit, even though the description says it fits "2xx" models