#Pink radio clock drivers
#Pink radio clock update

This rare and desirable model from Olympic was manufactured in the late fifties in a bright original molded watermelon pink. And yet we had to include it at number ten because the watermelon tone is just so unique. This was a long-shot for this top ten list, as it is not really truly 'pink'. The Watermelon Pink 1957 Olympic Clock Radio All of us at Retro Radio Farm definitely agree that a pink radio is the best radio choice for the new radio collector or anyone who wants to have a cool radio in their home.ġ0. Who doesn’t want a pink radio? The color pink is known to produce a calming effect on the human brain and it also curbs your appetite.

These represent the coolest, best and most unique designs for pink radios of this era. Pink radios came into vogue around 1959 and continued as the top color for radios through the 1960's. These radios represent the finest ever seen.

#Pink radio clock update

In our view, though iH8 is a good clock radio for the dollar, every quality competitor makes an update to the standard iH-series body increasingly necessary tweaks to its screen, body shape, and controls would increase its appeal in light of newer alternative designs.These are the top ten pink retro radios from our many years collecting radios of the 1950's and 1960's. Consequently, the brand new iH8 felt somewhat old on arrival, and possessed of too many buttons, dials, and switches to handle comparatively fewer features than, say, XtremeMac’s Luna, which unlike iH8 lets you set each of the alarms to whatever source and volume you desire, provides better dimmer and display options, and has other benefits, albeit at a higher price. However, competitors such as XtremeMac and Philips have recently been improving the sound quality, aesthetics and alarm features of their twin-speaker alarm clocks, while iHome has sat comparatively still.

Bass and treble controls provide modest user adjustment of the unit’s default settings, and the rear buttons and switches provide straightforward if not streamlined ways to adjust iH8’s time and date. iHome’s dual alarms are independently set and activated with simple top-mounted buttons, and radio presets are easy to call up with four top-mounted, dedicated buttons. On a positive note, that makes iH8 a solidly equipped alarm clock for its $100 asking price, just as iH6 was at the time of its release. Put next to one another, iH8 and iH7 sound the same, work exactly the same but for the omission of the optional third speaker and the shuffle dock, and have the same limitations. Aside from its remote, iH8 includes a non-detachable rear FM antenna, detachable AM antenna, power supply, Dock Adapters for both 5G iPods and iPod nanos, and an auxiliary audio cable for attachment to iPod shuffles.

#Pink radio clock drivers

From the outside, you could barely tell the difference between the iH8, the iH5, iH6, and iH7: they all have similar blue-backlit clock radio screens with dimmers, a unified metal grille with two total speaker drivers inside, dials and buttons on the top, and buttons and switches on the back.

These differences are trivial, and belie the major similarities that iH8 has with most of its predecessors.

iH8 uses a faux brushed metal texture rather than a glossy finish for part of its top, and its remote has color-matched rather than contrasting buttons. But it doesn’t include the third speaker itself, and modest cosmetic adjustments have been made to its included remote control and its casing. IH8 is a modestly changed iH6: it no longer has a dock for the first-generation iPod shuffle on the top, which was found on iH6 and iH7, and now includes the iH7’s dedicated rear port for a third speaker, which was not found on iH6. Back then, remotes were rarities in sub-$100 iPod speakers now they’re increasingly common. iH7 was its first three-speaker, dual-alarm clock radio, later followed by the two-speaker, dual-alarm iH6 unlike the iH5, which sometimes included a remote and sometimes didn’t, both H6 and iH7 were guaranteed to include remote controls. iH5 was its flagship single-alarm clock radio, while less expensive, simpler versions were subsequently released as iH4 and iH3. For those keeping track of iHome product revisions, the company’s numbering system used to make a bit more sense than it does at the moment.