Gigaware HD Radio Receiver

Hello. I was kinda second guessing my purchase when I bought it. I did the one click buying option. It was only $6. But I'm very glad I took the chance! Not only does it work great but It was very easy to use. After downloading the hd radio app (which is very small file) I was able to find all my fav. Stations save them to my fav. And off I was listening to my talk radio. I got HD stations and none HD stations. Make sure you you try different head phones if sound quality isn't great. I started off using my iphone headphones and they didn't work. Tried my $10 head phones and BAM loud perfect radio. You can control volume by phone or the device itself. You can also tag a song u like and buy it right from ITunes. Great product amazing price and best part is I don't use any data. Thank you

Works at home, does not function in my office though where I wanted to use it. Seems to pick up signals relatively well when in areas that are open. Overall it does not work great but there were no problems with the free app and device to find stations when at home. Will most likely work out on the beach or if using when running.

I cant get this to work at all: first the app demands a re-connect and a re-boot. Then a message appears "this accessory is not supported by iPhone". Does not work at all. Whats interesting is that it actually works well on an iPhone 3GS, which makes me think they just need to write an update. Also, tried it in iPod Classic video and it works there too, by adding FM only capability. Connecting to iPod Mini did not add HD capability, just FM which already exists there. So, no workie on 4S but it does work on 3GS. Weird.

weak signal.....

This thing really does a great job of pulling in HD and normal FM stations. When I use it with my iPod Nano (standard FM stations), it only runs about 2 hours before completely depleting the battery. With my iPhone 3GS, it runs much longer, but I do have to watch it.

Keep in mind you must have an older iPhone or iPod with the 30-pin (wide) connector for this to plug into. If you do, this is a great little product. I had it working in minutes and was listening to an HD radio station while I cut the grass. For those of you who are not familiar with HD radio, here's a brief explanation: FM radio has the ability to send multiple transmissions of stations over the same frequency on the FM dial. So you have radio station WIL and WIL HD2 and WIL HD3 available to you if you have an HD receiver like this one. One local station has "music all day" on its main frequency, Modern Gospel on its HD2 and a local AM station transmission on its HD3 station. In that third case, I can now get FM quality transmission on an AM radio station. I have an AUX jack in my car radio, and I plugged the earphone jack of this unit into it and No longer does that AM station fade under bridges or buzz under power lines.

I took a chance because I saw this unit works with iPhone 3. I can't remember all the research I did.. point being I had not read explicitely that iPhone 3GS does or does not work. So the verdict is in. It doesn't work with iPhone 3GS. I even had iOS 4 installed. So hey, a great product for a limited set of aging products.Since I can't get it to work, I have nothing to rate :(

I have found that the reception on this device is poor at best. I've tried it all throughout the San Francisco Bay Area and Sacramento Area. I had a hard time for it to lock onto any of the digital stations... in fact it wasn't all that great at the analog stations either. I've had a better quality reception on analog FM from a disposable radio from a discount store. When it would lock-in to a digital station, it would take listening to the analog version of the station for about 10 minutes before locking on but would flip-flop between analog and digital. The software for the iPhone is VERY buggy as well. A total fail in my opinion.