Add-ons for your handheld
Published: 07 Nov 2003
Prolink FM 201 radio
£39.99 (CompactFlash); £29.99 (SD)
Pros
Radio is good for you
Cons
Comedy manual
Verdict
Inexpensive, doesn’t murder your battery, works well
Editors’ Rating
8/10
This is by far the most efficient way to add sound and music to a Pocket PC or Palm. It doesn't require powerful hardware and you don't need to be concerned about adding extra memory, even if you want to be entertained all day. For the money you get a Compact Flash (or SD) card that offers FM stereo radio (88 to 108MHz) a pair of headphones and a software player.
You can scan for stations manually or use the Auto Search feature to jump to the next available station and then store your favourite channels in one of the 18 pre-set slots. Exactly how, isn’t at all clear, however. The manual’s no help (it’s two pages long) and there’s no electronic documentation either. To save you from having to crack the code yourself, scan for a station and then select an empty pre-set where you’d like to store it. Tap and hold the numbered button down with the stylus until your chosen station’s frequency appears next to the pre-set button, and then let go. Repeat for each channel.
Once everything’s set up, the FM 201 works a treat -- it even plays back from the cradle free of interference, should you need to conserve battery power. Sure, radio's not funky like video and it’s not personal like music, but it's a very good fit with a handheld and the pre-set confusions aside, this is well worth it.
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