New Radio cant find sh*t

[TTavenier3]

so i always use my phone as my mp3 player and video player, pandora. what ever. i went looking for new radios and find that all the new radios are leaning toward ipod and ****. speacial features for crapy ipods. but nothing out there for androids. wtf. thats gay. i hate the ipod craze so thats not happening. anyone got any ideas or heard or seen any android friendly radios. probley nothing like the ipod. Guess im stuck using the old 1 wire adapter aux. guess you cant complain to much. but im just saying the radio companies should look into this. id deffinetly by 2 lol

[madaaron]

http://www.crutchfield.com/p_333ASTROID/Parrot-ASTEROID.html?tp=5684

[01xtreme]

Newer JVC radios can support android. I know the one I sell the most is the cheap little JVC KD-R530. It supports android through USB, and can also do pandora. You also have the option of picking up a bluetooth radio that will connect with your phone wirelessly (if that's even a word) and stream absolutely anything from your phone, but you will have to control everything from your phone and it wont display info on the radio. I personally bought the pioneer DEH-P9400BH it does hands free calling and a2dp, plus has HD radio, a nice dot matrix display, fold down face and dual USB inputs, but it doesn't support android via usb if I remember correctly, but it will work via bluetooth.

[TTavenier3]

Nice. just ordered one. thanks

[Andrew.]

As stated above, radios need to specify if they are iPod compatible because apple forces the changing of codecs when you throw the song on the iPod. The radio needs to be able to read/decipher the readout from the iPod in order to display the song correctly.

Android is open source, you can go blue tooth, USB, aux in , pandora and if you count the apps avaiable there's literary thousands of ways to stream music from your phone. There's no benefit, other then to get people less in the know to pay Google to put "ANDROID CAPABLE " on their product.

[01xtreme]

Nice. just ordered one. thanks

Which one did you get?


As stated above, radios need to specify if they are iPod compatible because apple forces the changing of codecs when you throw the song on the iPod. The radio needs to be able to read/decipher the readout from the iPod in order to display the song correctly.

Android is open source, you can go blue tooth, USB, aux in , pandora and if you count the apps avaiable there's literary thousands of ways to stream music from your phone. There's no benefit, other then to get people less in the know to pay Google to put "ANDROID CAPABLE " on their product.

Actually the source codes for audio out via USB is very new with android hence why no radios prior to this year would allow an android phone to connect to the radio via USB. It would work with any radio via aux input, or Bluetooth streaming.

[Andrew.]

Actually the source codes for audio out via USB is very new with android hence why no radios prior to this year would allow an android phone to connect to the radio via USB. It would work with any radio via aux input, or Bluetooth streaming.

:shrug:

Bought my Alpine HU little over a year ago, Inc2 maybe 6 months ago. Mash in the minidin connector I have connected to back of HU into phone, select "media drive" instead of "pc sync" or "charge only" and works fine for meeee.

[01xtreme]

:shrug:

Bought my Alpine HU little over a year ago, Inc2 maybe 6 months ago. Mash in the minidin connector I have connected to back of HU into phone, select "media drive" instead of "pc sync" or "charge only" and works fine for meeee.

Interesting. I haven't had any radios work for me, but then again I only have experience with the radios I deal with daily. I'll have to look more into the alpine radios, all the ones I've used, when you select media drive it just says not supported.