At first glance, I was amazed by the wonderful features of my iHome branded clock radio for my iPod. It had an alarm, iPod charger, and the ability to play my ipod audio directly through the speakers on the unit. It was a dream come true. No longer was required to listen through those little headphones. I was free to listen without boundaries. I decided that work would be a great place to connect my unit. I am at my desk eight hours a day and my company is nice enough to let me listen to music at a reasonable volume level.

After only minutes of the first use, my iPod completely froze and would no longer go into sleep mode. I blamed the iPod for being faulty because it was brand new. I went online and tried to reset the iPod and that didn’t work. After a lengthy call with the helpful Apple associate, I was told to go home and reinstall the updated iPod software. That didn’t work, so I had to send my iPod in for repair. About two week later I had a refurbished iPod. It totally sucks because my iPod was just one week old when it stopped working. I was just happy to have an iPod that worked , so the following Monday, I connected my “refurb” iPod into my iHome. My iPod now freezes after about three songs and then I have to reboot my iPod in order to get it to play. It is a newer generation Video iPod, so I thought that maybe it was just a little “buggy”. I waited for the new firmware to be released because it promised to fix several bugs. The following Monday I connected the iPod to the iHome and it began freezeing again. I doesn’t freeze once or twice a day…it freezes like 20 or 30 times a day. I have a $10 set of computer speakers that I got from Walmart and my iPod never freezes when I connect it to those speakers.

I went to the iHome forums and all I could find is that it says that you may run into interference when connected next to a computer or monitor. I have three dell flat panel monitors connected to two computers at work, so possibly it could be that. It is just a sad thing that I lost my receipt and am unable to return the $89 paper weight. The clock radio sounds great , but I can hook up a $10 clock radio if that’s what I wanted.

Let me know if anyone else runs into the same problem or has a solution for me. This was a promising product that has just totally let me down.

I would not buy this product again, but that is only my opinion. Maybe I just have a defective unit.

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