Pink Blog

This is the first personal XM radio I’ve ever seen - I didn’t know such a thing existed, and I didn’t know they came in pink! I don’t like the combination with the silver (or is it blue?) buttons though, they really should have used black. I’m also not sure about how useful a personal XM radio would be. You need a line-of-sight to the sky for satellite radio to work, and if you’re in a metal box (like a building or a car) you will have a hard time getting a signal. I know they make external antennas for use in cars and houses, but doesn’t that defeat the point of a personal, miniature, headphone-using, belt clip-having device? I do like XM’s offerings though; we borrowed one from friends when we went on a road trip. After we figured out how to hook up the magnetic transmitter on top of the car, it was great listening to commercial-free tunes of exactly the genre we wanted, while still having the slight unpredictability of a radio station. By the way, this is a Pioneer Inno, and it does come with a docking station. Maybe you’re supposed to leave it in the dock all the time and record shows, and then take them with you on the go?