iHome iP97 Dual Alarm Clock Radio for iPod and iPhone (Silver) Review

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(More customer reviews)This clock radio is a very impressive little music machine! It sounds great for it's size, and lets you remote control your iPod or iPhone from bed or across the room. It has a few other unique features that come in very handy:
1) This particular model is "GSM shielded", which means that it actually works properly with an iPhone. If you try to use an iPhone on an older (or cheap) iPod clock radio, you'll end up hearing a bunch of static and buzzing noises if you try to play songs on the iPhone or listen to the radio when the phone is plugged in. You can get around this by putting the phone in airplane mode, but then you're going to miss calls and e-mails while you're listening to phone on your clock radio. Not cool.
2) FM Radio reception on this model is quite good, and it sounds great! AM reception isn't so hot, but I doubt that many folks who buy a high-tech clock radio like this really listen to much AM radio anymore.
3) This model has dual alarms, which didn't seem like a big deal to me at the time when I bought it. Then I realized that this thing also has a calendar built into it, and that I can program one alarm to go off during the week and a separate alarm to go off only on weekends. Sweet! No more having to shut off the daily alarm on Friday morning and having to remember to turn it back on Sunday night!
Some other thoughts... I have both an iPhone 3G and an old iPod Photo, and they both work fine in this clock radio. Even the menu navigation on the old iPod works fine from the remote. That said, you'll need to ditch the annoying little dock inserts that come with the clock radio to make the older "fat" iPod's fit. You'll also need to lose the insert if you have a case on your iPhone.. it won't fit otherwise.
Other than that annoying little flaw, it's a great product.

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