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Belkin TuneBase - FM Transmitter for iPod

Belkin TuneBase - FM Transmitter for iPod
From Belkin Components

Price: £15.00

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Product Description

The versatile  TuneBase FM plays your iPod tunes through your car stereo as it powers and charges your device. By seamlessly integrating an FM transmitter with the versatility of a car power adapter, the TuneBase FM for iPod offers the outstanding convenience of an all-in-one solution on the road. The holder secures your iPod and features an innovative, flexible steel neck for easy repositioning. Offering improved FM transmission, the TuneBase FM delivers crisp and clean audio performances for an unequalled listening experience in your car. Its built-in FM transmitter wirelessly connects to your car stereo and operates on multiple FM channels from 88.1 MHz-107.9 MHz. This lets you listen to your iPod on the best available frequency. Four programmable memory slots let you easily find the clearest frequency, and toggle among them for the best performance. Accessories included: - Interchangeable supports for iPod video, 4G, photo, nano and mini. Please note that this product is subject to laws in force concerning the use of FM waves.


Product Details

  • Amazon Sales Rank: #208 in Consumer Electronics
  • Colour: Black
  • Brand: Belkin
  • Model: F8Z049eaBLK
  • Released on: 2006-10-23
  • Dimensions: .39" h x .39" w x .39" l, .0 pounds

Editorial Reviews

Manufacturer's Description
The versatile TuneBase FM plays your iPod tunes through your car stereo-as it powers and charges your device. By seamlessly integrating an FM transmitter with the versatility of a car power adapter, the TuneBase FM for iPod offers the outstanding convenience of an all-in-one solution on the road. The holder secures your iPod and features an innovative, flexible-steel neck for easy repositioning. This package includes tray adapters to fit various iPod models.Offering improved FM transmission, TuneBase FM delivers crisp and clean audio performance for an unsurpassed listening experience in your car. Its built-in FM transmitter wirelessly connects to your car stereo and operates on multiple FM channels from 88.1MHz-107.9MHz. This lets you listen to your iPod on the best available frequency. Four programmable memory slots let you easily find the clearest frequency, and toggle among them for best performance.

Box Contents

  • TuneBase FM
  • Interchangeable trays for compatiblity with: iPod video, 4G, photo, nano, and mini


  • Customer Reviews

    Just like all the other belkin stuff I have bought1
    This product is next to useless. It is impossible to find a frequency on which it will work without constant outside interference. It is obviously underpowered, which may well be to comply with legal restrictions, but if that is the case, why bother making it. I also have a cabled belkin ipod adapter which works much better although even that is fitted with a poor quality 3.5mm jack socket so you often have to fiddle with the plug to get good sound.
    I've been dissapoointed with every belkin product I have bought.Belkin iPod TunebaseFM

    Don't buy this very poorly made.1
    Hi, I bought this Belkin Tunebase from Amazon and it snapped by the neck second time using it, asked Amazon for refund, which I didn't get surprise surprise. The Belkin is made of plastic and the neck bit simply isn't strong enough to carry an iPod's weight, it's also quite difficult to get in and especially out of your cigarette lighter, due to the rubber collar bit you have to stick into the lighter.
    All round poorly made and a cheap product not worth the money in my opinion.

    Could be great, but isn't.2
    On the face of it, this seems like the perfect solution to listening to your Ipod without a socket for it in your car. It's a charger, a holder and a transmitter all in one. Shame then that the nut that holds the support in place regularly comes loose, letting the whole assembly turn upside down. Or that the connection is so temperamental that if you hit a bump or try to touch the buttons while it's playing, it will lose power, disconnect and spend about 20 seconds trying to restart itself. Or that the buttons quite often ignore what you're telling it to do. Or that it will get bored before you've managed to set the frequency you want so you have to do it in stages. Or that you'll be hard-pushed to find a frequency that isn't clogged with something else, and when you do, you're driving! So you'll come across something else to interrupt your music very soon.

    It could be the perfect solution, but the manufacture quality is so jaw-slackeningly poor that you are left feeling cheated, even at £9.