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Brand: iLuv
Category: CE

List Price: ~~$129.99~~
Buy New: $87.99
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Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars

15 reviews

Color: Black
Media: Electronics
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Shipping Weight (lbs): 6
Dimensions (in): 8.7 x 14.6 x 4.7

MPN: iMM173
Model: iMM173
UPC: 639247040441
EAN: 0639247040441
ASIN: B001EJNQUW

Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days

Features:

•	Compatibility: iPod mini; iPod nano 1G, 2G, 3G, 4G; iPod classic 4G, 5G, 5.5G, 6G; iPod touch 1G, 2G; iPhone 1G, 3G
•	Two iPod docks for playing and charging your iPod or iPhone
•	Digital dual alarm clock--wake to iPhone, iPod, FM radio, or buzzer
•	3.5-mm auxiliary line input
•	Rich sound with jAura acoustic speaker technology

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Editorial Reviews:

Product Description
iLuv iMM173 Hi-Fi Dual Alarm Clock for your iPhone and iPod is a clock radio that suits your overall iPod/iPhone lifestyle. After going through several high level testings and evaluations, The iMM173 has been proved to be the only dock out in the market that is fully compatible with both the iPhone 3G and 2G.

Customer Reviews: Read 10 more reviews...

3 out of 5 stars

Er.... What's Up Dock? January 8, 2009
David Simon (Dobbs Ferry, NY USA)
Just beware that the unit can freeze and you have to pull the plug and reboot from scratch. The company has prepared literature on this and knows full well that this is a flawed product. The trick seems to be you must Insert your 3G with the radio off. That is imperative. When it cooperates it gives you a solid dependable performance . The sound is above average but hardly on the level of my Bose wave radio. It is a nice bedroom performer. Can you do better? I think ihome beats this sonically. But I wanted the dual dock and the iluv is the only game in town--but let's see what CES has up it's sleeve. Bottom line: if you approach this with care and caution it is imperfectly fine,

5 out of 5 stars

I love my iLuv January 6, 2009
Karen M. North
Great product. Radio sounds great and it was nice to be able to program some stations in. I like the dimmer and the dual alarms. Can't wait until my husband and I get our iPhones to charge them on.

4 out of 5 stars

Very Good January 6, 2009
Nancy H. Lee
The item is as advertised. However, the instruction manual is not easy to follow. The initial set-up takes some time. The operation via the remote seems to be the best bet. Still unable to operate from the base unit. You have to go back to the operation manual more often than not.

2 out of 5 stars

Bad Usability December 24, 2008
M. Sternberg (Downers Grove, IL United States)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful

I use this device as overnight iPhone charger and morning radio. It works OK for those purposes, but just tolerably. There is a lengthy list of little shortcomings, which together erode the enjoyment of the device.

* Occasionally, upon insertion into the right cradle my iPhone pops up a message that this charger product is not supported and offers to switch to airplane mode, despite clearly stated support for the iPhone and iPhone 3G.

* There are two alam buttons, each accompanied by an activity LED. All other buttons are backlit, but not those two alarm buttons. The backlighting is provided by the front display, but apparently the engineering challenge was too high to integrate the separate alarm button indicators functionally and aesthetically into the rest of the unit.

* Each of the two alarms has its own time indicator in the display. This is fine for static use and a checkbox on the feature list, but counter to intuitive usage: while setting the alarm time, it would be nice to use and flash the big time indicator as in most other clock radios. (On a couple of occasions, I pushed and held the alarm button to set the alarm, expecting the big time indicator to flash, but I overlooked the small indicators.)

* Each radio station button is dual labeled, "1-2", "3-4", and so on, and looks like a rocker switch. However, they do not work this way -- they are simple push buttons that you have to press twice for the even-numbered stations. I typically don't bother to switch stations, but the design violates the principle of "form follows function".

* The dimmer switch offers TEN levels. That might look good in the specs, but is about 8 too many. My typical usage is this: I want the backlight either off, or on at a low level. I can understand perhaps one other high level, but TEN is too many, for the following reason: Since the backlight increment switch is also the snooze bar and is rather large, it gets occasionally operated accidentally. Since the higher levels are rather bright and unsuitable (let alone not much different), one has to go through some 7 or 8 button presses to get the cycle back around to "off". Incidentally, the "off" position is inconsistently indicated as 1 bar, rather than none at all -- another indication of bad design.

* I had to consult the manual to set the clock upon first power-up - pressing "Set" is not enough; one has to push and hold. This looks exceedingly bad next to any Apple device. Even though setting the time is pretty much the first task, it is explained not first thing in the manual, but is buried somewhere in the middle.

* The surface scratches far too easily.

* Weekday/weekend alarms are not supported.

* No 24-hour mode.

The manual looks like a CD insert, and is clearly made to imitate Apple's style. However, the product design falls far short of this goal.

5 out of 5 stars

Excellent December 22, 2008
Jackie Rosenthal
0 out of 1 found this review helpful

I love the iLuv iMM173 Alarm Clock and Dual Dock for iPod. My husband & I both use it and love the dual settings. Thank you for making such a versatile alarm clock.

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