For years company's like Griffin and Belkin have made after market bolt on FM tuners for the iPod but now Apples own iPod Radio Remote is due to hit the stores priced at £35.

The iPod Radio remote will work with all fifth generation iPod's (including the Nano) and also offers a remote capable of driving your iPod while it remains out of sight in a pocket, you get full tack control and volume adjustment. Of course the real extra is the FM Tuner which uses the earbud cables as an antenna and at last gives the iPod a radio, one feature almost all its competitors had already added. The 15.7 gram FM tuner makes use of the RDS (Radio Data System) to display station name and even some limited information sent by a few radio stations which are displayed on the iPod's screen. The iPod radio can receive stations between 87.5 to 107.9MHz on the FM band.

So not all perfect as we'd have preferred to have seen an LCD display on the remote itself which could have then doubled as a second display of the MP3 playback data as Sony and others have included within their players. Also UK readers may have wished for a DAB decoder rather than the old hiss and fade of FM, but we shouldn't knit pick too much, we'll just say thank you Mr Jobbs for adding this small extra to the uber sexy iPod Nano and full size iPod range.

Available immediately and selling for £35 its sure to be in demand.

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Published - 10/01/2006

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