TDK TAC7221BK Portable Speaker System review

Fortunately, you don’t actually need to use the app to control the dock – you can play music from your iPod as normal, while the dock has a handy selection of buttons on the top including track skipping, play/pause, volume control, shuffle, repeat and a source selection button. This allows you to switch from the iPod dock to an FM radio input or 3.5mm auxiliary input. Even the FM radio works without the app – you can just use the back and forward buttons to search between stations – but you can only see what frequency you’re on through the app.

This is a decent dock, although its audio quality is certainly nothing to write home about.
At £61, the TAC722 is a similar price to the Philips Fidelio DS3020 dock, which can also be powered by either batteries or the mains but has higher sound quality, a better controller app and can be connected to a PC to act as a pass-through to dock with iTunes, so is a better buy all round.