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Palm has some creepy close to albino lady.]]>Nov 2nd 2009 8:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/02/xm-skydock-now-available-for-ipod-touch-and-iphone-owners/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/02/xm-skydock-now-available-for-ipod-touch-and-iphone-owners/Nov 2nd 2009 11:52AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/02/xm-skydock-now-available-for-ipod-touch-and-iphone-owners/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/02/xm-skydock-now-available-for-ipod-touch-and-iphone-owners/Nov 2nd 2009 6:25AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/02/xm-skydock-now-available-for-ipod-touch-and-iphone-owners/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/02/xm-skydock-now-available-for-ipod-touch-and-iphone-owners/Nov 2nd 2009 6:58AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/02/xm-skydock-now-available-for-ipod-touch-and-iphone-owners/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/02/xm-skydock-now-available-for-ipod-touch-and-iphone-owners/Nov 2nd 2009 9:00AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/02/xm-skydock-now-available-for-ipod-touch-and-iphone-owners/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/02/xm-skydock-now-available-for-ipod-touch-and-iphone-owners/
Side note:
You don't have to thread your antenna to the outside of your car. I just put mine on the shelf under the back window. Works fine.]]>Nov 2nd 2009 7:41AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/02/xm-skydock-now-available-for-ipod-touch-and-iphone-owners/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/02/xm-skydock-now-available-for-ipod-touch-and-iphone-owners/Nov 2nd 2009 10:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/02/xm-skydock-now-available-for-ipod-touch-and-iphone-owners/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/02/xm-skydock-now-available-for-ipod-touch-and-iphone-owners/Nov 3rd 2009 12:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/02/xm-skydock-now-available-for-ipod-touch-and-iphone-owners/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/02/xm-skydock-now-available-for-ipod-touch-and-iphone-owners/Nov 2nd 2009 8:29AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/02/xm-skydock-now-available-for-ipod-touch-and-iphone-owners/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/02/xm-skydock-now-available-for-ipod-touch-and-iphone-owners/Nov 2nd 2009 8:51AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/02/xm-skydock-now-available-for-ipod-touch-and-iphone-owners/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/02/xm-skydock-now-available-for-ipod-touch-and-iphone-owners/Nov 2nd 2009 10:59AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/02/xm-skydock-now-available-for-ipod-touch-and-iphone-owners/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/02/xm-skydock-now-available-for-ipod-touch-and-iphone-owners/Nov 3rd 2009 10:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/02/xm-skydock-now-available-for-ipod-touch-and-iphone-owners/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/02/xm-skydock-now-available-for-ipod-touch-and-iphone-owners/
Two bad things: The stalk is bendable but seems to always want to return itself back to normal. Also, it plays XM radio through my car speakers, it plays my iTunes music through the car speakers, and if someone calls it plays the ringtone through the car speakers; so why-o-why doesn't it play the phone call through the car speakers?!? The speaker on the iPhone is so weak I have to close all my windows or lower the AC to hear the person on the phone if I want to keep it in the dock.]]>Nov 2nd 2009 8:45AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/02/xm-skydock-now-available-for-ipod-touch-and-iphone-owners/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/02/xm-skydock-now-available-for-ipod-touch-and-iphone-owners/Nov 2nd 2009 8:58AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/02/xm-skydock-now-available-for-ipod-touch-and-iphone-owners/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/02/xm-skydock-now-available-for-ipod-touch-and-iphone-owners/Nov 2nd 2009 9:16AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/02/xm-skydock-now-available-for-ipod-touch-and-iphone-owners/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/02/xm-skydock-now-available-for-ipod-touch-and-iphone-owners/Nov 2nd 2009 12:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/02/xm-skydock-now-available-for-ipod-touch-and-iphone-owners/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/02/xm-skydock-now-available-for-ipod-touch-and-iphone-owners/Nov 2nd 2009 9:19AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/02/xm-skydock-now-available-for-ipod-touch-and-iphone-owners/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/02/xm-skydock-now-available-for-ipod-touch-and-iphone-owners/Nov 2nd 2009 9:49AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/02/xm-skydock-now-available-for-ipod-touch-and-iphone-owners/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/02/xm-skydock-now-available-for-ipod-touch-and-iphone-owners/Nov 2nd 2009 9:30AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/02/xm-skydock-now-available-for-ipod-touch-and-iphone-owners/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/02/xm-skydock-now-available-for-ipod-touch-and-iphone-owners/
The hardware receiver is built into the dock. It basically uses your iPhone/iPod as an expensive display screen.

Meanwhile, for half the price, you could just buy a standalone XM/Sirius receiver that does the EXACT SAME THING, includes its OWN display screen, and instead use your iPhone for, I don't know...phone calls?

Lastly...it might be just me, but a few of these "wow, I bought this, it's the greatest thing ever" comments seem just a little too much like shills to me. Are they that desperate to sell these things?
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At least with this, its one cable (the satellite antenna) the RF output is good because its using your car's electrical system as the antenna and it also works for your music on the phone, not just XM, for a little bit more then what you'll pay for a decent car mount for your phone.]]>Nov 2nd 2009 10:11AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/02/xm-skydock-now-available-for-ipod-touch-and-iphone-owners/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/02/xm-skydock-now-available-for-ipod-touch-and-iphone-owners/Nov 2nd 2009 10:12AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/02/xm-skydock-now-available-for-ipod-touch-and-iphone-owners/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/02/xm-skydock-now-available-for-ipod-touch-and-iphone-owners/Nov 2nd 2009 10:14AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/02/xm-skydock-now-available-for-ipod-touch-and-iphone-owners/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/02/xm-skydock-now-available-for-ipod-touch-and-iphone-owners/Nov 2nd 2009 12:55PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/02/xm-skydock-now-available-for-ipod-touch-and-iphone-owners/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/02/xm-skydock-now-available-for-ipod-touch-and-iphone-owners/]]>Nov 2nd 2009 9:44AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/02/xm-skydock-now-available-for-ipod-touch-and-iphone-owners/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/02/xm-skydock-now-available-for-ipod-touch-and-iphone-owners/
The interface is very nice but not OMGAWESOMER!!!!! nice that the 5-star ratings make it out to be. The station name icons are small and hard to read from the driver's seat (I have a Ford pickup), and some of the functionality isn't obvious until you read the manual. Still, it is very good and extremely polished for a 1.0 app.

I've needed a dock ever since some asshat stole my 60GB iPod classic last year, and since then I've been switching from iPod to sattelite by pulling the line-in cable from the Sirius radio and plugging it into my iPod. Since the SkyDock is, well, a dock, switching between satellite and iPod love is now MUCH easier.

I'm happy with the dock. Crutchfield has it for $99 if you don't want to pay the $120 retail price.]]>Nov 2nd 2009 9:48AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/02/xm-skydock-now-available-for-ipod-touch-and-iphone-owners/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/02/xm-skydock-now-available-for-ipod-touch-and-iphone-owners/
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I seriously installed my SkyDock and activated it in the Best Buy parking lot. It used the same antenna connector as my Sirius radio so I just plugged it in and called XM. I installed the XM app before I left the house.

XM obviously didn't train their reps well enough - He told me at least 3 times, "ok, now go on the web and finish your registration" and I kept telling him I was on an iPod, not an iPhone, and had no internet access.

At any rate, by the time I got on the highway I had Opie & Anthony playing on my iPod.]]>Nov 2nd 2009 11:46AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/02/xm-skydock-now-available-for-ipod-touch-and-iphone-owners/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/02/xm-skydock-now-available-for-ipod-touch-and-iphone-owners/Nov 2nd 2009 11:27AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/02/xm-skydock-now-available-for-ipod-touch-and-iphone-owners/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/02/xm-skydock-now-available-for-ipod-touch-and-iphone-owners/Nov 2nd 2009 12:55PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/02/xm-skydock-now-available-for-ipod-touch-and-iphone-owners/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/02/xm-skydock-now-available-for-ipod-touch-and-iphone-owners/]]>Nov 2nd 2009 1:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/02/xm-skydock-now-available-for-ipod-touch-and-iphone-owners/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/02/xm-skydock-now-available-for-ipod-touch-and-iphone-owners/
Wouldn't be easier to just buy a $79 XM Radio w/Car install package? And just leave your XM radio *in the car*. And save that $40 for other iPhone apps?]]>Nov 2nd 2009 4:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/02/xm-skydock-now-available-for-ipod-touch-and-iphone-owners/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/02/xm-skydock-now-available-for-ipod-touch-and-iphone-owners/Nov 3rd 2009 1:45AM