Just plug it in to the 30-pin port of an iPad, iPhone, or iPod Touch, and you should be immediately prompted to download Elgato's free EyeTV Mobile app from the App Store. Setting up the EyeTV Mobile is pretty simple. You can set the app to draw from the battery of the dongle or of the iPad/iPhone while in use. Yes, the EyeTV dongle has its own battery that needs to be occasionally charged (using a spare USB charger or your PC's USB port). I wouldn't expect this thing to survive much abuse, such as being stepped on. In fact, the EyeTV Mobile as a whole feels rather brittle. It'll stay in if you don't fiddle with it, but it doesn't exactly inspire confidence.
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The portable telescoping antenna just pops into the port on the EyeTV's back.
Compatibility appears limited to a handful of Samsung Galaxy devices and the Nexus 7. The Micro, which costs 60 pounds, is basically just an Android iteration of the European/Japanese EyeTV Mobile described above, with a Micro-USB dongle replacing the Apple 30-pin connector, and a corresponding free Android viewing app. The second international EyeTV version is called the EyeTV Micro. (This one, of course, will not work in the U.S.) It retails for 90 pounds in the U.K. The first, also called EyeTV Mobile, "has been confirmed to work in Australia, Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Poland, Spain, Switzerland and the United Kingdom, as well as any country that broadcasts standard definition MPEG-2 or MPEG-4/H.264 video," according to Elgato. That said, there are two very similar versions that work specifically for the many markets that offer the DVB-T (Freeview) or ISDB-T digital TV standards. If you bring it overseas - or even to Mexico and Canada - you won't get any channels. International readers take note: the EyeTV Mobile is a U.S.-only product.
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