chargable? Are you suppose to charge the FM station part of this or does it charge through ipod?
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You plug the 1.5mm jack (or maybe 1 mm jack, I don't know I haven't measured) into the FM transmitter and USB into car charger, or PC or wall charger and it will start charging. but you gotta have FM transmitter plugged in. It charges your iPod. The FM Transmitter runs off the ipod's battery.
369775
Hi! It is actually powered by the device it's plugged into. Works pretty well too; comm between iPhone can go a decent distance away from this device and still play your tunes.
325177
I never tried to do that. It charges from a USB port, which means I am near my computer and other sound sources. I was not impressed with the radio overall.
1496590
I play my ipod through the usb port it has. I have not yet bought the ipod adapter because the usb port works fine
113115
This charger only supplies power to the iPod. In order to hear your songs over the car speakers, you need an fm transmitter ~ just like Jessica says. I got my nephew a cheap one that picks up a lot of interference, but he is desperate enough to keep using it. ;-S
1188237
No - not built in. If your iPod/mp3 player has built in radio/internet radio capabilities then it can/will play radio; this is a speaker system, any signal it plays is dependent on the docked player. But the sound is incredible!
1021552
the way it works it that you plug it into your iphone or ipod and the music from your iphone of ipod plays through an FM radio... its not made to listen to FM radio. does that make sense? you can YouTube a video of how these work
1381041
yes it charges and you can play music and use i heart radio or any other radio app.
2111140
no-it will only transfer the music that plays on the ipod to the frequency of an fm radio.
143019
just for the record, i owned one of these docks and a 2g ipod touch. It would play music just fine. It would not charge the ipod, so that made it just about useless for me.
681427
Correct, this is mainly for an Aux input, but it still is a great charger alone ! You could link it to a fm transmitter also.
1710471
It plays AM/FM and Weather Bands - it has no input. I've used the earphone jack for a speaker for output- sounds pretty good. Lastly You could get a fm transmitter for the ipod and set the fm frequency on the radio.
840785
it does charge but in order to play music you have to use the 3.5mm jack. it is not at all like an ipod where one cable does it all. you have a mini usb to charge and a 3.5mm to play the music..
1569664
No, this isn't an iPhone dock, it doesn't charge nor allow the iPhone to control it. Most radios that do that are wildly overpriced because of the "iPhone" connective branding where they have to pay royalties to Apple. You can play any songs from plug in USB drive you export from iTunes, assuming they let you do that.Also - You can plug the iPhone into the aux jack with an audio cable to play through the radio system.
817142
This does play through the speakers, however via an auxiliary cable and not through the charging/data port. Some versions of iPod will have a headphone port on top which will allow charge and play simultaneously on this. Others would have the choice of charge or play.
2111141
i have a nano 4th gen that did not use to have the fm feature to it. by attaching this device, will the ipod act like it had an fm radio?
1313190
The USB is powered, so if you connect this to your stereo per the instructions (by connecting to the rear USB and auxiliary connections on your stereo), the USB will charge whatever device you plug into it. So, if you need to charge your iPod, for example, it will charge. HTH