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To unmark a favorite, first activate it, then press and hold the center button again. Favorites are indicated by the small triangles you see below certain frequencies in the screenshot. Once you have a station tuned in, press and hold the center button to mark it as a favorite.

You can also press and hold the fast forward or rewind buttons to scan for the next or previous station. With the dial visible, you can manually tune a station by spinning the wheel. Click the center button to toggle the lower part of the display between the dial view and the station identifier.

REMOTE ANTENNA TUNER REVIEWS SOFTWARE

IPod Software 1.1 or later.) This will take you to the main radio screen, which presents a somewhat retro FM dial (hey, I remember those!), as seen here.įrom there, the click wheel (or the buttons on the wired remote) are all you need to use. Plug it into the dock connector on a compatible iPod, then choose the new Radio button from the iPod’s main menu. Using the Radio Remote really is a simple thing to do. Still, eight hours of radio reception on one charge from a nano is fairly impressive the full-size iPods should produce even better times. Real world usage may result in somewhat lower battery life, as I didn’t change stations, adjust volume, or otherwise activate the backlight very often during the day-just a few times to make sure the radio was indeed still active. Almost exactly eight hours later, the nano shut itself down. Once the nano was fully charged, I connected the radio and headphones, set the volume to about half, tuned in a station, and then just sat back and waited. Wanting some better data, I did my own drain test using a 4GB iPod nano. Apple admits as much on the above-linked FAQ page, which states, “Because the iPod Radio Remote is powered by the iPod itself-no extra batteries required-using the FM radio will reduce battery life.” Obviously, that means there’s a hit for the iPod’s battery life when powering the Radio Remote. Part of the reason for the small size is that there is no power source in the Radio Remote it draws all its power from the iPod. Physically, it’s quite small, as you can see in the image here (click the image for a larger version). It weighs next to nothing, with the vast majority of that weight coming from the dock connector and the cable.

When I unpacked the Radio Remote, the first thing that struck me was just how really tiny it is. If you buy a Radio Remote, you won’t need to buy a separate headphone splitter to share your music. Plug one set of headphones into the iPod itself, and the other into the Radio Remote, and both sets of headphones will be active at the same time. With the Radio Remote connected to a full-sized iPod or nano, the iPod’s headphone jack is still accessible. One semi-hidden feature of the Radio Remote is that it allows you to plug two pairs of headphones into one iPod. There’s one other reason you might find the included earbuds useful-for sharing your iPod with someone else.

So it seems the earbuds are bundled to make sure every Radio Remote ships with an antenna. IPod Radio Remote Frequently Asked Questions page it states that the Radio Remote uses the earbuds as the antenna for the radio. However, while looking for more info on the Radio Remote on Apple’s site, I found the So the inclusion of another pair seems to do nothing more than increase the cost for the consumer, as I couldn’t see anyone really using them. Anyone purchasing this product will already own an iPod, or will be receiving one at the same time, and all iPods already include earbuds. At first, I found it somewhat odd that Apple decided to bundle a set of earbuds with the Radio Remote.

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