Great when it works

When the Inno works it is great, receives strong signals in NYC and easy to operate. However, my commute is around 90 minutes each way and the battery has died on occasion. Once every time I switched to the mp3 player it would shut down, I had to restore it and load and set options again. Now, it works in the car, through my stereo but not head phones. I get noise like an AM radio. Hopefully it will get resolved in a timely matter.

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Really Good

I liked my Xm Radio in my auto so i got the Inno. If you already have a xm radio then you should be under no illusion that signal is critical. I know when Im in a garage it goes away which i expected the Inno would have happen.. With the home kit I get a great signal and even walking around the edge of the house I'm ok. I lose the signal in the middle of the house. Again, I expected this. I love being able to record a song by just hitting a button and I get the whole song. This unit gives me options that I like and I'm not a slave to one online music company.

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Best Choice Available

This product could be improved in some ways, but overall it is a really nice small item loaded with features and functions. I live in the Pacific Northwest, and satellite coverage up here is spotty enough to cause reliance on docking stations and external antennas, etc. But to have an xm radio that I can take to work with me, or use at home, or take on travel is pretty nice. Being able to record 50 hours off of xm is pretty nice too. And the tune/artist select feature which prompts you whenever the selection is playing on any channel is really nice. I bought some for family and friends who live in the Southwest, and they all reported much better portable performance than I get up here. They could use it right away indoors and in the car even without the external antenna/cradle set up, and have strong signal strength indications. So, coverage there seems to be pretty good. As xm launches more satellites, and increases terrestrial repeaters, too, I am hoping my signals get better. But I like mine, anyway. BTW, I assumed xm vs sirius content would be interchangeable, but I had a rental car with sirius, and in the 3 or so hours I drove it, could not find any channel I liked, and seldom encountered even a song I liked. With xm, I was finding things I liked, and channels, immediately. I can't explain it, but that was my experience.

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