Used Iphone

I used this with iphone (not 3g)..
Below is my reviews of both the autopilot and the belkin tunebase
(tunebase section at the end)..

ALL THE BAD STUFF FIRST:

(1) the connector was a little tight (did not feel good like a new apple connector I bought)..
(2) it burned itself up within 1 week.. The controls are on the end, so you cannot help but push the controls to plug this thing into the socket (one of the times I did this, I head crackling, and the back lights no longer worked).. Amazon accepted the return no problem..
(3) This thing is a slave to where you happen to have the cigarette lighter..

NEITHER HERE NOR THERE:
All these iphone attachments operate about the same in that the audio from a call will not route thru the aux out cable.. I suspect when the audio is ported via the data connector (instead on the headphone connector), this is what happens.. The annoying iphone warning.. I saw it from time to time.. Oddly random.. When operating the skip fwd/back, and FF and rewind: The controls are very flakey.. But it was not the autopilot (it is the iPHONE) because thats how it does when I use the iPHONE display..

THE GOOD:
Great price for iPHONE charger that has audio line out too.. I was using a tape deck adapter (so I could have aplace to plug the audio in).. And then I used the headphone port, the iPHONE cell phone interference was tremendous.. For some reason the audio was much better when I used the audio out (that used the data port.. IE when using the little back on the autopilot).. Another cool thing was that I could pulg in the iPHONE once, and the audio was already connected (because it attached to the piece that goes into the cigarette lighter).. I cannot remember if the cell phone noise was gone though (using the audio via the data connecter)..

I am thinking about getting this one again (autopilot).. I just got the griffin tunebase, and I am returning it.. The autopilot was superior using the audio out to the tape deck (when I used the tunebase to the tape adapter, the audio would be very VERY base heavy.. not just opinion.. it was bad/broken bad.. Perhaps it was my tape deck)..

TUNEBASE:

The thing works very well to hold your phone in the car.. And the FM seemed to mo my car radio seemed to work better than how most reviews descrobe these things (it had a low band button and a high band button, and on the other side you can tune it yourself, and the button on the front searches for a free station to tune to).. There is another button that cycles thru several ??? to help get better reception to the car radio (I liked this feature)..

(1) $100 for holding the phone and charging it..
(2) The audio out was not usabe to my tape audio adapter (see above).. I might have kept this unit if it were.. because of the problems with the FM)..
(3) This is a slave to where you cigarette lighter is (and the flexible stalk is pretty short)..
(4) On my car, just about everytime I drive I hit one of the buttons by accident and reset the device to some other FM setting (then have to fiddle with it.. it seems continuously.. and I could not get used to it (gave it maybe two weeks).. Remember all the FM control buttons I mentioned: this makes it so just about anythere you touch it, you will bess up your setting..
(5) If you want to plug in the iPHONE with one hand, the stalk will need to be straight.. Although it was strong enough to hold the iPHONE at any angle (the plug in part was a tight fit.. probably on purpose)..

I believe I would have kept this device if:
(1) I was able to use the audio out instead of the FM,
(2) NEEDED IPOD OCONTROLS (all the buttons were for the FM part)..
It might have been worth installing some kind of cigarette lighter extender to get it away from my gear shifter that kept changing the settings..

One good thing, there was little (practically none) cell phone interference using the FM to my car radio..