UK - Best iphone car dock or FM transmitter?

Hi there,
I have recently bought an iphone in the UK and was wondering if anyone in the UK has found a good dock/holder for the iphone that fits well in a car, maybe with an FM transmitter so that you can listen to music etc from your iphone through the cars speakers.
Any thoughts???
Tom

Tom Deane wrote:
cool, I will look at this one, I also heard that the Kensington Digital FM Transmitter is good, and its only £25 in amazon.co.uk anyone got it, or knows if it works well?
Don't bother.
I got the Kensington one (I think it is the same one you are referring to) for my ipod. It worked better than my iTrip fm transmitter, and I like the fact that it charges at the same time as transmitting (something the iTrip didn't do).
Sadly, when I use the Kensington with my iPhone, I get the mobile interference. It isn't awful, but it is enough to get me looking around for a different one. There is a concerning silence from Apple when you speak to them about this - concerning because it looks like they know it is v difficult to avoid the mobile interference. Having said that, most people who have referred to the transmitter mentioned in an earlier post in this thread report good experiences. I'm tempted to give that a whirl.
Workarounds I have read are:
1. Put the phone into Airplane mode. No good, of course, if you want to retain the phone function.
2. Wrap silver foil around the cable nearest to the iPhone. Sounds like the old advice to avoid radiation in the event of nuclear war, but I may give it a go! ;o)

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1 - Phone Call - You can get back to Navigation simply when you are on a phone call. Just press hard button 'Back'. Sometimes you get back to the navigation sometimes not. If not, then pull down the notification menu at the top and choose navigation. Back to maps at that point. The only thing at this point is that you lose the little green light bottom left corner. That is your traffic that shows a potential traffic tie up.
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