FM transmitters: iTrip vs everyone else in our real-world test

At just £20, the iTrip is already the more attractive option of the three we've looked at so far. However, it only works with iPods and doesn't have the luxury of a battery-operated option, meaning you'll need to jack this into your cigarette lighter. If this helps you kick the filthy habit, excellent. Sadly, it meant our photo opportunities weren't as beautiful with this model.

After positioning the iTrip and its annoying cable around our handbrake, it was time to pick a new song to start the test with. We chose an all-time favourite for this leg of the test: Cannibal Corpse, and a track off their most recent and ornately romantic album, Kill. Don't let images of macabre horror distract your mind, this very serious choice of music was fitting for our very serious test.

We must concede that while the iTrip's cable was bothersome, its performance was nothing below superb. It was arguably as clear as Belkin's TuneCast and signal strength was fantastic. There was no drop in performance in either country or city, and it had the lowest amount of hiss when no music was playing.

Its low cost and excellent performance put it in first place so far, above the TuneCast. However, its irritating cable and incompatibility with anything but an iPod threatened to push it down a place. In fairness, we agreed the iTrip and TuneCast 3 were in joint first place.

Finally, we move to our last contender for eternal Cravian glory, Doro's RadioStreamer FMT 300.

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