EVO4G Internet Radio Box

With my ongoing adventures trying to discover what this EVO 4G can do for me, my next endeavor involves beefing up my car stereo. You see, my car is rather outdated so it lacks an auxiliary port where you can hook up your mp3 player to. I recently got tired of listening to the radio stations around town while in the car, so I had to come up with something else. The stereo deck is so old that it can't even play mp3 CDs. Audio CDs can only hold up to 80 minutes of music while mp3 CDs can hold up to many hours of music. Mp3 players with internal memory can hold up to months of music. However, there's no way I could hook up my mp3 player to the car stereo without an auxiliary connection. Fortunately, that's really not the case!


Enter the Griffin iTrip. It allows you to hook up any device with a headphone jack into its FM transmitter. You set the frequency that you want it transmitting on and then set the same frequency on your car stereo and BAM, your stereo is now playing whatever your mp3 player is playing. It's pretty easy. The FM transmitter is powered by your car's cigarette lighter so you have a source of power there. So what about the power for your mp3 player, you ask (for those long road trips)?



Enter the Griffin iTrip's built in USB charger. All of a sudden, you have power for everything! hahaha



This is where the creativity comes in. Not only can you use your EVO for an mp3 player, but you have the power of the internet in your hands as well. One of the greatest inventions spawing out of the internet era is internet radio. I can listen to radio stations like KROQ (106.7) in Los Angeles or The End (107.7) in Seattle from my car in Omaha though my EVO 4G. You have just transformed your average car stereo into an internet radio box. For those of you who listen to Pandora, now you can listen to it while driving in the car.


I listen to BBC Radio 1 in the UK.


The only drawback is that in more populated cities, it may be hard to find a free FM frequency for you to transmit on. However, for long road trips where you are driving out in the middle of nowhere, it is perfect!