When I finally broke down and bought an iPod last fall, I bundled an iTrip with it sepcifically for road trips. Last week, I drove up to Ottawa in a rental car and had the first opportunity to really give my iTrip a decent trial.

The one thing I had really been concerned about was the lack of open frequencies around Toronto. In order to tune in the iTrip you need a completely open signal (all static) and around the city there are almost no bands that don't have at least bleed-over from a radio station. However, I luckily discovered that 87.9 was free and got a clean signal all the way out of the city. If you live in New York, Chicago, or another very large city, I'd be surprised if you could tune it in at all. Maybe one exists already, but it'd be great if there were a regional map of open frequencies so iTrippers can easily tune in without searching the airwaves.

Overall, I was very pleased with the performance of the iTrip. The audio quality isn't perfect, but it's very listenable. The battery draw is also extremely low, so you get tons of playtime. I wrote a more complete review over at the silverorange stuff site.