Lots of people have been looking forward to Alpine’s KCA-420i iPod interface unit for the Ai-NET head units (which is to say, a nice way to hook up an iPod to your Alpine car stereo). Playlist Magazine got a hold of review unit and took it out for a spin, but I can’t say I’m exactly happy with the results. They say it’s the best iPod <-> car interface they’ve used, but it definitely seems that the KCA-420i unit was an afterthought. Alpine blames the wonky interface on head units not exactly designed to handle the thousands of songs that can exist in an iPod’s catalog, but that’s no excuse for the odd choices they made in some of the button-combination choices.
There’s hope, though. Alpine plans on tweaking for the 2005 models. Perhaps they’ll even make a head unit with enough oomph to handle the iPod as a proper input source.
Review: Alpine KCA-420i iPod Interface [PlaylistMag]
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iPod Archives [Gizmodo]
Almost forget: Here are the last PacRim contest codes we didn’t get to on Friday.
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