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(More customer reviews)I'll save you time. TL;DR - Don't even think about it.
I bought this device on a trip. A surprise road trip, returning to the Rocky Mountains, from the east coast. As such, I was hoping to find something good - anything good. The $50 I paid for it was FAR more than I'd wanted, but I wouldn't pay $15 for it, new-in-box with a three year warranty. I exchanged it twice before deciding it was just a horrible build.
1) This device has terrible FM range, and is very noisy. If I so much as moved my arm, the stereo wouldn't pick up the 'station' at times.
2) The quality of the audio is terrible. My good transmitter - the one at my destination - actually transmits bass. Shocking, I know, but this thing doesn't even try.
3) Hopefully you don't want to actually charge a phone with it. It seems to have some form of 'intelligent sensing' based on load, to determine if it should be on or not. For some reason I can't determine, 'red' is "phone unplugged" and 'yellow/orange' is "phone charging" - and 'green' is meant to be "phone plugged in and charged" but all I get is an hour of "orange" and then "strobing random colors" while it power-surges my phone on/off/on/off/on/off ad nauseum.. Removing the device from my vehicle's socket, it's HOT. Like, "why hasn't this melted yet" hot - using the same USB-to-phone cable I use at home, and am using as I type this - with the same phone. (For reference, no, the load of my phone is not too high - my home charger outputs 750mA, and my laptop outputs 250mA, and neither has complained!) Why? It uses a LINEAR voltage regulator. If you don't know what that is, pretend to be shocked and disgusted by it. You should be.
4) Why in the world does only one speaker actually put out sound..? Even with it in Mono mode. (Granted, only the first two units did this, but still!)
5) Who makes an AUTOMOTIVE device without a "hold" or a "lock"? Yes, I carefully picked 98.4 as my station, as it was the only one that would work for more than three minutes without disappearing randomly - even "blank" local frequencies. Yes, I wanted it to stay there, even if it bounces off my leg during a turn. No, I did not get my wish.
6) Straight out of the box, the first one had a broken support on the microphone clip. Not that I care, I didn't want a mic/hands-free, but it still bears mentioning.
This device was not worth the electricity it took for me to type up the review, nor my frustration, fuel to pick it up and return it repeatedly, the packaging it was hiding like a time-leech within, even the brain cells that died off during my contemplation of how to handle this situation.
Thank you Griffin. I literally will never purchase another product from your company. You've shown me that you can overprice even the most worthless of devices, and skimp upon their build in literally every possible aspect.
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