The Satechi Bluetooth FM Transmitter: Cheapo, iPod and Zune Compatible

Bluetooth has become one of the most popular data transfer and voice communication technologies around, one of the reasons of its popularity being related to its ease of integration. Thus, the number of Bluetooth-enabled devices available on the market is absolutely huge, ranging from mice to headphones via, quite obviously, such handhelds as mobile phones and PDAs. One relatively recent addition to this list is represented by FM transmitters, much like the device you're about to see as follows, namely the Satechi Bluetooth FM Transmitter; it can route both the voice calls and the music stored onto the user's portable devices directly through his/her car audio system.

The device from Satechi is a Class 2 Bluetooth device, compliant with the V 1.1/1.2/2.0 specifications and providing an overall functioning range of around 30 feet (10 meters). Furthermore, it supports the Bluetooth A2DP (Advance Audio Distribution) profile, which can prove to be quite helpful for broadcasting music, and incorporates DSP (Digital Signal Processing) to cancel echo and reduce ambient noise.

Moreover, the FM transmitter is compatible with every Bluetooth-enabled phone on the market and provides quite a high level of versatility, since its audio input also supports additional music players, as for example the iPod, the Zune or other generic models.

As expected, this thing is not exactly very bulky, measuring just around 3 x 1.5 x 1 inches (7.62 cm x 3.81 cm x 2.54 cm), at a weight of just around 1 pound (453 grams). Furthermore, it doesn't require any batteries, since it's powered directly by the car's cigarette lighter adapter.

As mentioned right from the beginning of this article, one of the most important selling points of the Bluetooth FM Transmitter from Satechi is its price. Thus, the device retails for around 100 US dollars, which is not a very small price, but it's in any case more affordable than most of the similar devices available on the market, which will most likely make it quite popular among those users who would like to enjoy the features of a Bluetooth handsfree system, without coughing up quite a large amount of money.

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