http://www.engadget.com/2005/06/15/ihomes-ih5-ipod-dock-alarm-clock-radio/ Engadget Comments for iHome's iH5 iPod dock alarm clock radio http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2005/06/15/ihomes-ih5-ipod-dock-alarm-clock-radio/http://www.engadget.com/2005/06/15/ihomes-ih5-ipod-dock-alarm-clock-radio/Dec 19th 2005 12:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/06/15/ihomes-ih5-ipod-dock-alarm-clock-radio/http://www.engadget.com/2005/06/15/ihomes-ih5-ipod-dock-alarm-clock-radio/
Now I need the next two pieces to come together -- I need somebody to start doing small (like < 5 minute) podcasts that can be reasonably listened to while still in bed, and I need them to be as current as possible. If there's one bad thing about podcasting right now it's that when a major news story breaks, you end up hearing about it over the next week as you work your way through your timeshifted podcasts.

After that all I need is voice recognition so that I can say "skip" or "repeat" or other things, and I'm all set. But that ends up being the easy part, it's getting the content feed right that's trickiest.

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first of all.. it's gonna be backlit to math the iPod.. of course.. why the fuck would they make a clock that you can't see at night!?

secondly, A REMOTE? For an alarm clock..

that's idiotic.. you put it beside y our bed.. OMG.. i can't believe you just said that..

lastly.. since the iPod has a sleep function built in.. (which i'm sure hundreds of thousands of people use, sleeping with their earbuds on) you can scratch that question off the list..

having said that.. my biggest complaint...

do i really want my bedroom looking like steve job's playhouse? No. I much prefer what bose did with their iPod integration.. don't try to make everything look like an ipod.. please..]]>Dec 19th 2005 12:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/06/15/ihomes-ih5-ipod-dock-alarm-clock-radio/http://www.engadget.com/2005/06/15/ihomes-ih5-ipod-dock-alarm-clock-radio/
The 3/4" Audio jack that ipods connect to are standard in most devices anyway... So err. Yeah. Pretty much everything with a line in can take a 3/4" jack or you can get convertors down at your local electronics shop.]]>Dec 19th 2005 12:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/06/15/ihomes-ih5-ipod-dock-alarm-clock-radio/http://www.engadget.com/2005/06/15/ihomes-ih5-ipod-dock-alarm-clock-radio/Dec 19th 2005 12:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/06/15/ihomes-ih5-ipod-dock-alarm-clock-radio/http://www.engadget.com/2005/06/15/ihomes-ih5-ipod-dock-alarm-clock-radio/]]>Dec 19th 2005 12:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/06/15/ihomes-ih5-ipod-dock-alarm-clock-radio/http://www.engadget.com/2005/06/15/ihomes-ih5-ipod-dock-alarm-clock-radio/Dec 19th 2005 12:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/06/15/ihomes-ih5-ipod-dock-alarm-clock-radio/http://www.engadget.com/2005/06/15/ihomes-ih5-ipod-dock-alarm-clock-radio/
Controls are ok, not necessarily intuitive, but simple enough

Used the radio as well as the ipod. It sounded fine in both cases. I haven't played with the eq settings on the ipod to optimize the sound just yet, but it sounded ok out of the box. the monks of santo domingo doing chants sounded eerily good on it. pink floyd stressed it a bit.

Hey this is a stereo clock radio with ipod control and connectivity. BTW the endgadget podcast sounds fine on it too, although I would n't use that with the alarm or sleep features...:-)]]>]]>Dec 19th 2005 12:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/06/15/ihomes-ih5-ipod-dock-alarm-clock-radio/http://www.engadget.com/2005/06/15/ihomes-ih5-ipod-dock-alarm-clock-radio/1. way to bright even at lowest setting
2. no way to control alarm wake up volume-comes on loud
3. can't read clock]]>Dec 19th 2005 12:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/06/15/ihomes-ih5-ipod-dock-alarm-clock-radio/http://www.engadget.com/2005/06/15/ihomes-ih5-ipod-dock-alarm-clock-radio/Dec 19th 2005 12:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/06/15/ihomes-ih5-ipod-dock-alarm-clock-radio/http://www.engadget.com/2005/06/15/ihomes-ih5-ipod-dock-alarm-clock-radio/Dec 19th 2005 12:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/06/15/ihomes-ih5-ipod-dock-alarm-clock-radio/http://www.engadget.com/2005/06/15/ihomes-ih5-ipod-dock-alarm-clock-radio/Dec 19th 2005 12:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/06/15/ihomes-ih5-ipod-dock-alarm-clock-radio/http://www.engadget.com/2005/06/15/ihomes-ih5-ipod-dock-alarm-clock-radio/It is an absurd! I think this is a bad quality product. After 3 days using I can´t decrease the volume. Now I'm in Brazil and there isn't a place that fixed it. I have a sensation that I threw away my money.]]>Dec 19th 2005 12:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/06/15/ihomes-ih5-ipod-dock-alarm-clock-radio/http://www.engadget.com/2005/06/15/ihomes-ih5-ipod-dock-alarm-clock-radio/Dec 19th 2005 12:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/06/15/ihomes-ih5-ipod-dock-alarm-clock-radio/http://www.engadget.com/2005/06/15/ihomes-ih5-ipod-dock-alarm-clock-radio/Dec 25th 2005 8:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/06/15/ihomes-ih5-ipod-dock-alarm-clock-radio/http://www.engadget.com/2005/06/15/ihomes-ih5-ipod-dock-alarm-clock-radio/


I've only played with it a bit (one of the 2 is being returned for a black iHome). Yes, the Nano inserts are also now included.



Compared to the Realistic clock radio (AM only) I've been using for years, this unit is pretty cool. The sound is above average and the radio reception, well, it's better than my Realistic.



I'm thinking of getting one for me now.]]>Dec 26th 2005 9:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/06/15/ihomes-ih5-ipod-dock-alarm-clock-radio/http://www.engadget.com/2005/06/15/ihomes-ih5-ipod-dock-alarm-clock-radio/


The only issue I have so far is that there are no directional arrows or anything to navigate through the iPod interface using the remote. One must go to the actual iPod and change it that way. Small thing, but still.



I really like it, and from what I hear, it's relatively cheap.]]>Dec 27th 2005 2:11AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/06/15/ihomes-ih5-ipod-dock-alarm-clock-radio/http://www.engadget.com/2005/06/15/ihomes-ih5-ipod-dock-alarm-clock-radio/Dec 27th 2005 3:04AM