You need to plug in the external power adaptor – it can’t be powered by batteries. It’s intended just as a bedside clock radio, so don’t think of it as a full iPod speaker dock. It’s quite sturdily built, with a decent weight to it. The device is a wedge like, oblong affair, dominated by a silver speaker grille, which tapers out at the bottom into an iPod white plastic. The absence of DAB is a negative though it would have inevitably pushed the price up. The reception in the office was such that I could only pick up Radio 1, but it fared better in a home environment. The Philips web page rather naughtily describes the radio as ‘Digital’ – what this means is that it contains silcon based tuner rather than an analogue box, but don’t confuse this with DAB – it’s still just FM. The charmingly titled AJ300D then, gives you music from a decent range of sources– there’s the iPod dock, you can use a Philips GoGear, there’s a FM tuner and at the rear there’s a line-in auxiliary so you can attache any other source. And as the GoGear isn’t actually too bad at all, that’s actually quite a good thing. However, Philips has been a touch more savvy by making this clock radio dock combo work with both the iPod and its own GoGear MP3 players. Creative is not the only one to have thrown in the towel and start designing for the iPod – this rather sleek clock radio, with a built in iPod dock is from Philips. What many noted was that it wasn’t designed for its own line of Zen MP3 players, but for the ubiquitous iPod. A few months ago Creative released the Xdock.
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