I've just upgraded cars. Used to have an old Corsa with an Alpine UTE 72BT, and frankly I loved it. The thing I adored about it was it was so quick and responsive, and the way I had my files organised on my USB stick I could just press the shuffle button a few times and it was 'reset' back to the root folder, where all my favourite favourite songs were. I could use the wheel dial to really quickly browse the folders and find a specific song. It also had fully working bluetooth (phone and music).
In comparison, my new Mazda 3 has some TomTom unit in (Sanyo NVA-SD8110 I think?) and it's a really painful downgrade. It's slow and laggy when responding to touch, there's 2 mandatory startup warning presses which is just annoying, music is an absolute pain to navigate (I can forget about being able to quickly find and play a specific song), there's about 6 unresponsive button presses required to do anything, and mind boggling is that I can connect my phone...for phone calls only!! I can't stream music! Argh!! Bad software is such a pet peeve of mine. It's like they didn't even QA it for usability in the slightest.
I bought a bluetooth-to-aux thing, but honestly I much prefer hardware buttons for music control, especially if it has quick ways to jump to specific folders and find specific files. It would be nice to find a replacement head unit which still has satnav, but has good, fast and logical hardware buttons to supplement. Anyone know anything which may fit the bill?
In comparison, my new Mazda 3 has some TomTom unit in (Sanyo NVA-SD8110 I think?) and it's a really painful downgrade. It's slow and laggy when responding to touch, there's 2 mandatory startup warning presses which is just annoying, music is an absolute pain to navigate (I can forget about being able to quickly find and play a specific song), there's about 6 unresponsive button presses required to do anything, and mind boggling is that I can connect my phone...for phone calls only!! I can't stream music! Argh!! Bad software is such a pet peeve of mine. It's like they didn't even QA it for usability in the slightest.
I bought a bluetooth-to-aux thing, but honestly I much prefer hardware buttons for music control, especially if it has quick ways to jump to specific folders and find specific files. It would be nice to find a replacement head unit which still has satnav, but has good, fast and logical hardware buttons to supplement. Anyone know anything which may fit the bill?
