Belkin Headphone Adaptor and Remote Control for iPod Shuffle
Product Description
The Headphone adaptor is the fastest and easiest way to add the remote and navigation controls your iPod requires.
Technical Specifications:
Attributes:
Connector Type : Connector End 1: , Connector End 2.
Environmental:
Environmental : Operating Temperature – Humidity.
Physical:
Form Factor : Adapter Cable.
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Belkin Headphone Adaptor and Remote Control for iPod Shuffle
My wife bought a new shuffle to use when exercising. Unfortunately, she doesn’t have Apple design approved ears, so the iPod earphones just drop out. She has some nice shiny Sennheiser sport headphones but there’s no way to get the shuffle to work.
Result, you need to go out and buy an adaptor. This Belkin one does a fine job, and she’s happy with it, but frankly this is not a problem that should have arisen in the first place. A real Apple blunder which results in extra cost if you want to use someone else’s headphones.
Rating: 4 / 5
I’ve had two of these beggars now. Both of them have had the cable come away from the casing. This was despite my ingenious solution of taping the second one to a stiff piece of card to avoid stressing the joint. I’m a keen runner and do like to listen to music on my longer runs, these adapters don’t seem to be able to take the stress of someone jogging and therefore swinging the cable. Avoid.
Rating: 1 / 5
I bought the Ipod shuffle to run/exercise with and the headphone controls failed after about 5 runs. I assuming this is due to sweat getting into them. I bought this hoping it might be a better solution but I’ve run with it once and now it does not work at all. I didn’t even use the controls during exercise.
It’s a great product if you just want to use different headphones, the controls are bigger and easier to use than the Apple headphones although their position near the unit defeats the object. But it appears this type of control is just not resistant to moisture or sweat.
Rating: 1 / 5
So you like the look of the nice new ipod shuffle.
Great little player but your stuck with controlling it with apple earphones.
Alternatively there are now third party earphones out there with the controls built on the line BUT they might not be for you, you might want to use those nice Bose Inner Ear noise cancelling things you bought.
SO you buy the adapter, GREAT, you can now control your Shuffle.
But have we not defeated the object of this new shuffle with this inline control? The Belkin adapter is fairly short, which you’d want it to be considering the headphone cable length. You want the controls half way along your cable. The fact the controls are now right by your shuffle you might as well just have the buttons on the shuffle itself!
Nothing wrong with the product it is a solution!
Rating: 4 / 5
I was given an iPod Shuffle for Christmas to replace my old iPod which is giving up the ghost, and at first I was overjoyed. My happiness died a very sudden death when I realised that the iPod in ear headphones a) didn’t fit my ears and kept wanting to fall out and b) had rubbish sound quality (in my opinion).
After a bit of research I found this adaptor and it has been to the be answer to all my problems as I can now use my old over-ear headphones again to listen to my music properly! So far, the adaptor has done exactly what it’s supposed to and I think now it’s just a matter of having to get used to double and triple clicking to fastforward and rewind etc.
Overall, I’m just relieved that I’m able to use whatever headphones I want with my shuffle now. I highly recommend this adaptor!
Rating: 4 / 5