{"id":125,"date":"2006-12-30T23:55:43","date_gmt":"2006-12-31T09:55:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/2006\/12\/30\/belkin-ipod-tunebase-fm\/"},"modified":"2007-01-06T16:15:26","modified_gmt":"2007-01-07T02:15:26","slug":"belkin-ipod-tunebase-fm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/2006\/12\/30\/belkin-ipod-tunebase-fm\/","title":{"rendered":"Belkin iPod TuneBase FM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image124\" alt=\"Belkin iPod TuneBase FM\" hspace=\"5\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/12\/belkintunebase.jpg\" align=\"left\" \/>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B000L97D0U?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=totechcom&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=B000L97D0U\">Belkin iPod TuneBase FM<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px; border: medium none\" height=\"1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=totechcom&#038;l=as2&#038;o=1&#038;a=B000L97D0U\" width=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/>\u00c2\u00a0has been out for more than a year. But, I just picked one up today. It has a lot of advantages over the Belkin TuneCast that I used a couple of years ago.<\/p>\n<p>The TuneBase (pictured to the left) plugs into a car power adapter (AKA cigarette lighter) while the TuneCast used an AAA battery. One of the problems I had with the TuneCast is that the battery would rapidly die while driving. The TuneBase also charges a connected iPod which means that both the iPod and the TuneBase are powered and ready to go all the time.<\/p>\n<p>The TuneBase can tune into arbitary frequencies while the TuneCast is limited to four fixed frequencies. This can be a problem if none of those four stations provide a clear signal to the car radio. The FM radio frequency is displayed on the iPod&#8217;s screen when configuring the unit. This makes it pretty easy to quickly configure the system with your car radio.<\/p>\n<p>The sturdy looking flexible arm can be adjusted to get it out of the way of other dashboard controls. I am kind of concerned about how much pressure it puts on the cigarette lighter though. I think the best thing to do is to use two hands to insert and remove an iPod from the TuneBase.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Belkin iPod TuneBase FM\u00c2\u00a0has been out for more than a year. But, I just picked one up today. It has a lot of advantages over the Belkin TuneCast that I used a couple of years ago. The TuneBase (pictured to the left) plugs into a car power adapter (AKA cigarette lighter) while the TuneCast [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[14,16,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apple","category-ipod","category-mobile-devices"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/ppKRG-21","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}