Alpine’s Monster iPod Car Deck Hits the Road
- February 15th, 2007
- Read 3346 times
- 8 Comments
I have an iPod-compatible Alpine deck in my Kia, and I couldn’t live without it. That being said, I’m seriously considering trading up to the iDA-X001, Alpine’s latest offering, and the first deck by Alpine or anyone else designed with input from Apple’s iPod team.
Not only can the deck connect to your iPod via its dock port, but it can control it as well. Information from your iPod, such as track listings, song length, and album art, shows up on a SlideShow-like 320×240, 2.2-inch full color screen. Awesome.
But iPods aren’t the only portable devices this do-all works with. Indeed, it has a standard USB port to take music from a thumbdrive, as well as stereo Bluetooth (via optional adapter) to work with your mobile phone’s music library, as well as enabling Bluetooth-based hands-free calling without a dorky ear piece. In addition, you get access to that mysterious HD-Radio, and it’ll even work with your XM or Sirius receiver.
We’re not sure if the deck will play back your iPods video, but even if it doesn’t, we can’t complain. At $450, this stereo is very attractive, as that’s a decent price for car audiophiles. It’s slightly larger than most car decks, but other than the size, we can’t think of much wrong with this deck. You’ll be able to get your hands on one early Summer, 2007.
iDA-X001 [Product Page, via Groove Volt]









jjjjj
1 year ago
Bastards do your own work
Reply
jmnmn (Who am I?)
1 year ago
do you you own research and work
Matt Hickey (Who am I?)
1 year ago
Sorry js, what, huh, eh?
Devicepedia.com (Who am I?)
1 year ago
I would love to stop using a bunch of CDs and use this one. CDs you usually tend to destroy after some time, because they may not be the most updated songs you like.
It’s easy with an iPod like that.
crazhorse
1 year ago
I pre-ordered one of these from Crutchfield…….. and have had it in my car for 3 weeks now. Its a pretty nice deck, one feature I’d of like to of seen is a equalizer other than the presets……… rock, pop, etc etc.
Reply
sorge sonubi (Who am I?)
1 year ago
whodyyy CDs, you need Camels to get as much to listen to cool tunes on your car Deck.
casin online italiano (Who am I?)
1 year ago
This is great, look forward to looking into every area. Thanks for being there.
guide (Who am I?)
11 months ago
A pleasure to look at, go on with this! Thanks!