Premium Car Mount / Charger / FM Transmitter for all Generations of AT&T and Verizon Apple iPhone and iPod

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Product Details

• Item Weight: 9.6 ounces
• Shipping Weight: 10.4 ounces
• ASIN: B002U48N7G
• Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (121 customer reviews)

Product Description

GOgroove FlexSMART 4i
Car Mount System Hi-Fi FM Transmitter and Charger for Apple iPhone and iPod (NEWEST AND PREVIOUS MODELS)

Play, Charge, and Mount your iPhone or iPod ON-THE-GO!

Play Music Through Your Car Speakers!
Sound quality is SUPERIOR to most any FM Transmitter on the market. A well designed display and easy to use frequency finder, makes tuning into your Music simple!

Flexible Neck and Rotating Head Provides a Perfect Fit in Nearly ANY Car!
The Flexpod plugs into your DC Car Outlet (Cigarette Lighter Socket). With its Flexible Neck and Rotating Head, you can adjust in seconds to fit nearly any make or model.

Mounts Your iPod or iPhone Securely!
Adjustable Locking Arms with Cushioned Rubber Grips, and a Non-Slip Rest make this FM Transmitter the best at securely and conveniently holding your device. You can adjust the FlexSMART 4i to almost ANY angle! It's an ideal mount solution for use with GPS Navigation on the iPhone.

NEW! Auto-Seek Station Locator allows the FlexSMART 4i to quickly find a suitable station for you!
Just hold down the station tuning buttons and the FlexSMART 4i will automatically find the clearest station for you!

Four preset channels + LED display on front of unit for quicker and more convenient frequency adjustments!

BACKED BY AN INDUSTRY LEADING 3 YEAR WARRANTY!

DOCK, CHARGE and PLAY your favorite Apple iPhone or iPod - Made for iPhone / iPod- Works with NEWEST and PREVIOUS Models: iPhone 4, iPhone 3Gs, iPhone 3G, iPhone, iPod touch (4th, 3rd, 2nd, 1st Generation), iPod nano (6th, 5th, 4th, 3rd, 2nd Generation), iPod classic (7th, 6th, 5th, 4th Generation)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

71 of 73 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great Sound, does not fit in every car, November 24, 2009

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Matthias Foertsch (Pittsburgh, PA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Premium Car Mount / Charger / FM Transmitter for all Generations of AT&T and Verizon Apple iPhone and iPod (Electronics)

Hi all,

This is the first report I am ever writing, so don't be too strict with me!

I purchased this Car Mount / FM Transmitter about a week ago and have it in use for only two days now. You take the car mount out of the box, plug it into your cigarette lighter, and it works. It holds my iPhone 3GS nicely. I have a case on (Incipio Feather Case) and I do not need to take it off, it fits perfectly as you can adjust the width of the holder as well as the back part of it (little turning knob on the back for adjustment). I would think that other iPods and earlier iPhones would also fit without problems.
The car mount comes with an audio cable which you attach to the bottom part of the holder and plug it into your iPhone so you can make calls and hear the voice over your car radio. Haven't used it much but it works quite well. The audio quality is very good, only very little background noise and in my opinion superior to what I had used before (little wireless iGrip FM adapter). I am actually impressed by the sound quality the transmitter delivers. It comes with a little on/off button that is very convenient. You can turn the device on and off and decide when you iPhone should be charged or not. When in off mode it will of course not play music through the transmitter. You have four preset buttons where you can save a frequency for quick access. The search feature is also pretty cool as you are able to find a free station within seconds. Just press two buttons at the side for about 3 seconds and the transmitter selects a station where it can send on without interference. You can easily use the car mount in both vertical and horizontal mode. This comes in handy if you want to use your iPhone for GPS navigation.

The downside of this product is that it will not fit every car I guess. I am driving a Ford Taurus 2005, and the DC outlet is inconveniently positioned, which means when I plug it in and try to adjust the whole thing, the part that goes into the outlet is too short and does not let you adjust well. the plastic parts in the middle of my car are in the way so I have to turn the whole holder slightly to the side to get it in a stable and well visible position. But this will vary from car to car and is not necessarily a negative aspect of the product.

However, when I first plugged it in, it was very hard to remove it again. I actually slightly damaged the plastic and rubber parts of the charger because I had to literally rip it out of the DC outlet. In my opinion this is because a) I have a very tight cigarette lighter (at least I think) and b) there are small rubber/gummi part on the side of the thing that goes into the outlet. The rubber parts fitted the charger so tightly that it was very hard to take it out again. When I ripped it out the rubber wore off and is now slightly damaged. I am not sure if this was my fault, but I didn't expect it to be that hard to take the charger out again. I tried it in another car after that and there it fit just well, it wasn't a problem to take it out again.

Anyway, all in all I give four stars for this product, mainly because the sound quality is amazing and it pretty much does what it is supposed to do: it holds and charges your iPhone and also plays your music through the car radio in really good quality. It is rather expensive, but so far worth the money I as I enjoy listening to non-noisy music from my iPhone in my car.

----------------- edit on January 23rd: It's been a while since I purchased this unit, and gave it a rather positive review. Due to the fact that a lot of people have experienced huge problems with this car mount system I feel like editing my first review:

I have the item in use now for about 2 months, and I would still rate this prodcut 4 stars out of five. I understand that iPhones would not work with any case (I guess the thiker the worse...), however, it does with mine. I have a very thin case called iFeather, made by Incipio (for 3GS). My unit (crossing my fingers) still works flawlessly, has not fallen into pieces, although I pulled it out and plugged it back in (different cars) many times, and does not shut off randomly. The hands free feature works well also.
I feel sorry for all those who made bad experiences with this prodcut, but wanted to tell you that there are positive stories. Honestly, given the rather high price of the unit, I would hope that it would work without problems in more cases for more people. This surely seems to be a downside of the FlexPod X2!

34 of 36 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Easy to use... Good quality, November 19, 2009

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Blu-estLight "MyEnglishIsGood" (The Beach) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Premium Car Mount / Charger / FM Transmitter for all Generations of AT&T and Verizon Apple iPhone and iPod (Electronics)

I've been using this one for about a week. I just got an iPhone 3gs and it works well. The sound is really good for fmtransmitter. It's easy to set up. The coolest thing about it is the auto tune thing where you just hold the tune buttons for 3 seconds and it finds the best sounding frequency for you. Then it has presets you can use too. It's good for driving... Quick and easy to tune. Hands free phone feature is cool.. Pretty good for the money .... Belkin has one for $70, but I returned that one.. Sound was not good for the price.. This accessory power one is better all aroundd... CHEERS!!

28 of 29 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Not bad, January 7, 2010

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B. Arnold (COLORADO SPRINGS, CO, US) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Premium Car Mount / Charger / FM Transmitter for all Generations of AT&T and Verizon Apple iPhone and iPod (Electronics)

I bought this for Christmas this year. My boyfriend has been wanting one since he got his iphone in October, so after looking through a ton of other ones I found this and decided to give it a shot.
Initially it worked very well. I was very pleased with the sound quality, mounting, ease of use, etc. One thing that I wasn't satisfied with was the "quick search" for the best station, maybe mine is defective. I held the side buttons multiple times for 3-10 seconds and it either didn't change the station at all or changed it to an even numbered station (of course that's gonna be a clear station, duh). When I tried using the speaker phone feature, I had to turn up the volume in my car as loud as it would go, the sound on the iphone as far as it would go, and still couldn't hear the person on the other end. I tried multiple different stations thinking that maybe it just wasn't a clear station or something, but no luck. Another thing, it has a feature where after 60 seconds of not listening to music it goes to sleep. Mine kept going to sleep even while listening to music, which meant very loud, startling interruptions of dead air.
Overall, the sound quality of the device is seriously great for an fm transmitter. I've used really crappy ones before where all you get is static, and there was absolutely no problem with this device as far as music sound quality goes. I even had it tuned to a station which, when the device was off, had interference with another station (enough that I could clearly understand the speaking and the music played on that station). On this station, when the device was powered on, all that I heard was my music - loud and clear.
Good product, worth the money if you're sick of having interference.
One more thing: after reading other reviews, I have something to say. SO MANY people are complaining about the rubber peice on the end of the outlet part. If you had read the booklet that comes with the device, you could have avoided that whole situation. It says very clearly to file down the rubber piece if needed to make it fit. If you failed to do so, that's your own fault and doesn't make the quality of the device any less. Another thing, read the return policy (which clearly states that the shipping is non-refundable) before you make the purchase and read all the other fine print and especially the instruction manual BEFORE purchasing/using. That way you know exactly what to expect and aren't mad when something isn't what you expected.