Product Description
XM XVSAP1V1 SkyDock with Built-In XM Tuner for iPhone and iPod Touch (Black)
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Product Details
- Size: One Size
- Color: Black
- Brand: Audiovox
- Model: XVSAP1V1
- Format: CD-ROM
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.00" h x 6.75" w x 3.00" l, 1.17 pounds
Features
- Enjoy live Satellite Radio anywhere you drive using your iPod touch or iPhone
- PowerConnect FM Transmitter works through your vehicle's radio with easy do-it-yourself installation
- Discover new music, tag for later purchase from iTunes and expand your personal music library
- Flexible stalk optimizes placement in your vehicle--app works in portrait or landscape mode
- Connnects to cigarette lighter adapter and charges your iPod touch or iPhone while you listen
- Just Tag It. Discover new music, easily purchase from iTunes and expand your personal music library
- Portrait or Landscape View
- Flexible Stalk: Optimizes placement in your vehicle
- Stay Charged: Charges your iPod touch or iPhone while you listen
- Easy installation: Sky Dock works through your vehicle's existing FM Radio with Power Connect or with provided Aux In cable for easy, Do-It-Yourself installation
From the Manufacturer
With the XM Skydock, you can enjoy live satellite radio anywhere you drive using your iPod touch or iPhone. Get commercial-free music, live sports, news, and exclusive entertainment through your existing vehicle radio with easy do-it-yourself installation. Tag songs, easily purchase from iTunes, and expand your personal music library. The Replay feature allows you to pause, rewind, and replay up to 30 minutes of live radio.
Anywhere-you-Drive Satellite for Your iPod touch or iPhone
The XM Skydock lets you use your iPod touch or iPhone to hear live satellite radio through your existing car radio. The dock is easy to install or remove, making it great for use in multiple vehicles. A flexible, rotating stalk enhances ease of use. This device even charges your Apple device while it operates.
XM SkyDock Hardware Features
- XM SkyDock has a built-in XM Tuner, so you can enjoy live satellite radio anywhere you drive using your iPod touch or iPhone.
- Easy installation: The revolutionary XM Skydock works through your vehicle's FM radio with easy do-it-yourself installation.
- Easy to move from vehicle to vehicle. Great for traveling.
- Audio output: Use the included aux-in cable if your vehicle has aux-in capability. Will also work with cassette adapter (sold separately).
- Charges your iPod touch or iPhone while you listen.
- Flexible stalk optimizes placement in your vehicle and rotating dock works in portrait and landscape mode.
- Allows audio from your iPod touch or iPhone to pass through to your vehicle's radio (must use the XM SkyDock app to change any of the FM channel settings).
- Made for iPod touch (1st, 2nd, and 3rd generation), iPhone 4S, iPhone 4, iPhone 3GS, iPhone 3G, and iPhone. Requires Mac OS 3.0 or later.
- Apple products sold separately.
XM SkyDock App Features
- Required XM SkyDock app available for free download from the app store.
- Enables your iPod touch or iPhone to control the XM SkyDock Satellite Tuner and PowerConnect FM Transmitter.
- Just Tag It! Discover new music, easily purchase from iTunes and expand your personal music library.
- Pause, rewind, and replay up to 30 minutes of live radio.
- Get alerts when your favorite artist or song is playing on live radio.
- Track your favorite sports and get alerts when they are playing on live radio.
- Discover new music, live sports, or talk content by browsing channels via categories or using the preview tuning function.
- One-Touch Jump to traffic and weather for 20 of the most congested cities.
- Use the Direct Tune keypad to enter a channel number and tune immediately to your desired channel.
- Auto rotation between landscape and portrait viewing modes.
- Built-in application tour explains all the key functions of the application to help you get started.
- Parental control lets you lock and unlock channels with mature content.
- Works on the XM Network.
Now Playing... Everywhere
Don't miss a minute of SiriusXM's unmatched lineup of original, exclusive programming. At home, in the office, at the airport, or in the gym, SiriusXM Internet Radio makes it easy to take over 130 channels of the best commercial-free music and biggest talk personalities everywhere you go. One subscription gives you access on your computer, iPad, compatible internet radios, and of course that smartphone in your pocket.
Subscribe to the All Access Package
It doesn't get any better than this - get every channel in the XM Premier package, plus listen anywhere with over 130 channels of SiriusXM Internet Radio on your computer, smartphone and tablet.* Simply ask for the All Access Package when you call to activate your radio.
See What's On
- XM Channel Guide
What's in the Box
XM SkyDock Satellite Radio Tuner with PowerConnect, magnetic-mount antenna, aux-in cable, iPod touch and iPhone spacers (two plus one pre-attached), user guide, and quick start guide.
IMPORTANT SUBCRIPTION NOTE:
Hardware and subscription sold separately. Service will automatically renew and bill at the rates in effect at the time of renewal until you call us at 1-866-635-2349 to cancel. See our Customer Agreement for complete terms at www.siriusxm.com. Fees and taxes apply. All fees and programming subject to change. Our satellite service is available only to those at least 18 and older in the 48 contiguous USA and DC. Our Sirius satellite service is also available in PR (with coverage limitations). Our Internet radio service is available throughout our satellite service area and in AK and HI. Certain channels are not available on our Internet radio service, including MLB® play-by-play.
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Customer Reviews
Most helpful customer reviews
40 of 40 people found the following review helpful.
By K. Via
Ok I must say I am extremely impressed With the XM Skydock. The install was easy, took about 20 minutes, 3 minutes was waiting for the area of the car I had to clean to dry. The only issue I ran into was I thought the cable that they give you that hooks up the receiver is short by about 6 inches (installed on a 06 Honda Civic). Activating the radio itself was a breeze, i did it all on line and never had to talk to a human which I enjoy. But if you have to speak to someone, it will be Bob from India. The sound quality of the radio was far beyond what I was expecting, it was crisp and clear, sounded just as good as music from my iPod. The app for the iPhone is perfect, you can tell they took the time to do it right the first time. Listened to it for the past two days and found no glitches or bugs in it yet, its absolutely beautiful. Overall I am pleased with this radio and would recommend it to anyone.
29 of 30 people found the following review helpful.
By Bluesky
First, some savings tips: Found an XM promotion online for a year of service for $77 (50% off the reg $12.95/mo rate); you have to call a special number (800-347-0600, which as a bonus appears to reach a U.S. call center) and ask for it. As of 12Nov09 it's still good but only for their basic package. I wanted XM Everything & the Best of Sirius, which is $16.99; the rep offered 3 months of service for $29.99 then the regular rate after that. Not nearly as attractive a deal but hey, at least they threw me a bone. Also saw online that XM will credit your account $12.95 for having a credit card on your account for recurrent billing. Asked for that and got it too.
On to the Skydock. Based on a few days' use, it's a very, very well done product. Installation was pretty easy, with the antenna obviously the hardest part. It sticks quite well to metallic surfaces but you then have to run the wire to a spot where you can plug it in to the Skydock when it's in use. So the challenge is hiding it behind panels, carpet, etc. along the way. A huge advantage over dedicated sat radio units is that you'll usually take your iPhone with you when leaving the car. One less thing for someone to steal, and it's also easy to detach and hide the Skydock if you're concerned about break-ins.
The iPhone app has been flawless except for a couple of minor irritations like occasionally having to tap several times before an input will 'take'. Also, when changing stations, the buttons and labels are small enough and far enough away while driving to require more attention than a typical car radio, so caution is definitely required. But the app is very intuitive and the ability to set alerts so you can switch over and listen to favorite artists/teams when they're on is a very nice touch. There are really too many cool features to list, like being able to choose favorite teams and see a little ticker with news about them.
It's a definite plus that all your iPhone/iPod functions work in the Skydock. When a call comes in, the programming or iPod music fades out and then back in when the call is over. I've seen complaints that the Skydock doesn't feed phone audio to the vehicle speakers but that's a 'so what?' for me since I use a Bluetooth earpiece anyway. It's very nice to have the iPhone handy in front of you when you're sitting at a light and want to take a quick look at e-mail or whatever. (UPDATE - Check your local laws. Since my original review last year, Georgia has outlawed texting/e-mailing or even reading messages while operating a vehicle. Please stay legal and, most importantly, safe.)
The sound is terrific using the supplied Aux cable, which we have in one vehicle. We live about 50 miles north of Atlanta and the FM method is good most of the time in the other vehicle, but this morning I drove downtown for the first time with the Skydock and it didn't work well at all. The problem in a large city like Atlanta appears to be that there are no empty FM channels that don't have a working channel on the next frequency up/down the scale, and the static/interference when driving near the city made the Skydock pretty much useless. In fairness, that's based on having chosen four empty freqs to use the Skydock with (another nice feature is that it can accommodate multiple frequencies) so I still have much of the FM spectrum to explore and may get better results in the future. Still, it's something to keep in mind for those in large cities.
One minor minus is that for bandwidth reasons maybe, Atlanta weather/traffic is on the same channel as Miami's. You sometimes have to wait for the Miami info to finish before you hear your own.
What's truly annoying is Sirius/XM's nickle and dime approach to customers. For example, I'd much rather have Sirius service but though the companies have merged, Skydock is an exclusively XM product. You can't have a Sirius subscription. The best XM package is $12.95 a month. But if you want NFL play-by-play or Howard Stern for example - not coincidentally, both highly popular Sirius products - you have to pay another $4 monthly. If you decide to drop the Sirius add-on, that'll cost you $5 to make the change. Have another, separate satellite radio? They make you get a SEPARATE subscription. Ridiculous. Nothing earth-shaking but irritating nonetheless.
And one more thing, not a dealbreaker but still very annoying, is that on Sirius' NFL play-by-play, there's a national feed but you can also choose either the home team or away team broadcasts. You only get that option on XM for prime-time games and of course that is never mentioned.
XM's crappy policies aside, Skydock is an outstanding product and highly recommended, especially for those who like me own an iPhone and have been on the fence about satellite radio.
19 of 19 people found the following review helpful.
By TWX
I bought the SkyDock at BB last week and I love it! Sirius XM really did a good job with this. It was a breeze to setup. Just plug it in the cig adapter (it fits VERY snuggly) and plug in the antenna. Download the SkyDock app from the app store and call/go online to activate your subscription. Even before you activate, you can still use the SkyDock to listen to your mp3s or stream music from any other music app. When I first saw pictures of the SkyDock I thought the stalk looked a little odd and might be flimsy. But it's very sturdy and works great to let you position your device exactly where you want it. The new "PowerConnect" FM transmitter sounds very good and makes installation much simpler than other sat rad devices. I no longer have to have the extra SureConnect wires in the car that I was using with my XMp3. Of course if you have an aux in in your car that's going to give you better sound than using the FM transmitter. As for the app, it is extremely well designed and very intuitive. It's very easy to flip through categories, channels and select favorites while driving. There isn't a "scan" feature which would be nice, but it doesn't take long to figure out where to swipe and touch without looking (keep your eyes on the road!) to do your own channel scanning. Sirius obviously spent a lot of time designing and testing this. It's nearly perfect for a v1.0 app. This is an amazing device! Thank you Sirius XM!!!
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