One Step Forward, Two Steps Back
Friends have the top-mounted iTrip and they work great, so I figured that I would get the new iTrip to use with my 30Gig 5G iPod. It looks good and the mode of operation is simple. The normal USB port on the bottom is a nice touch and it appears that Griffin looked at how people were modding their itrips to boost signal strength and moved the antennae outside of the case to improve reception. It seems that in doing this that they turned DOWN the signal strength to compensate - therefore, it seems to work way worse than the older iTrips. Also, the one station that works in Boston - 87.9, which is an option on the older iTrips is no longer available on this newer one. TOTALLY LAME. If I had not chopped the thing up to increase the length of the antennae, I would have brought this thing back. A waste of money.