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HD RADIO COMES TO THE IPHONE.
Two months after Apple announced it would begin including an analog FM receiver in the iPod nano, a new $80 accessory will allow iPhone and iTouch users to receive HD stations. It helps Apple close the gap with Microsoft’s Zune, which includes a built-in HD Radio.
Priced at $80 and sold exclusively at Radio Shack, the Gigaware Navigation Control HD Radio Receiver accessory enables iPhone and iPod Touch devices that run Apple 3.0 software to receive HD Radio for the first time. The accessory works with a free application that can be downloaded from Apple’s app store. Users plug their headphones directly into the accessory, which allows the headphones to act as an antenna to receive HD broadcasts.
It’s iBiquity’s first foray into the mobile market and its third in the portable market, on the heels of Best Buy’s Insignia NS-HD01 and Microsoft’s Zune HD.
The application software features a manual tune wheel or auto-seek option and the ability to connect with friends through e-mail, Twitter and Facebook. Users can also preview content currently airing and directly select a main station or multicast channel stream, in addition to bookmaking their favorite stations and multicast channels. An iTunes Tagging button on the Gigaware navigation accessory also allows users to “tag” songs for future review and purchase via iTunes.
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(11/11/2009 9:31:54 PM) Why??????? Because it's HD means nothing! it's the content and so far HD radio offers nothing but what's been done before! HD on the Iphone, is competing with the world.. Time to buck up, don't you think? |
| - Scott |
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(11/10/2009 12:57:07 PM) "radio stations are really desperate for this HD Radio thing to work. Internet radio is going to destroy traditional radio. All these iPhone apps do is put crap content on your iPhone" "HD Radio is a misnomer. The poor sound quality compares with heavy compressed mp3s. I'll take the web stream and save the bucks instead" geo, Craig - you do not know what you are talking about. I have a Sony HD tuner, and while the selectivity is not as good as my Yamaha T-80 component tuner the signal quality on strong stations is excellent. It adds dynamics and clarity to music, talk, sports. While I have not listened to the piece described here, your opinions should be judgesd as just that, opinions and UNINFORMED opinions. As a subscriber to Sirius, with car and home units as well as an iPhone and iTouch, I will tell you that for high quality "RADIO", the terrestrial services provide better quality signals than more internet streams. Go do some more reserach, and listen with your ears, not your egos, you uninformed, and unknowledgable critics. |
| - flash33 |
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(11/10/2009 12:39:54 PM) So it looks like you can't charge your iphone while listening to HD radio... |
| - RWilson |
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(11/10/2009 12:24:29 AM) AM-FM, or FM only? |
| - Larry |
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(11/9/2009 4:49:51 PM) http://www.radioshack.com/product/index.jsp?productId=3531180&tab=techSpecs the RS ad shows this Gigaware as a desktop HD radio that iPod docks with. THAT would be NO big deal. That is the controller that is small and handheld. So, bottomline is that doesn't seem to be HD portable at all. |
| - Gary |
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