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(More customer reviews)When the factory CD player in my 350Z recently went out, I stopped by a local car stereo installation shop where they recommended this unit.Now that I've owned it for a couple of weeks, I wish I had researched it first.It has a lot of features, sounds good and has a very clear display.However, I feel those positives are outweighed by a large number of annoyances.
* It takes about 20 seconds to start up.
* It randomly reboots (which aggravates the slow start up).
* If you play music from your iPhone and don't disconnect it between turning off and turning your car back on, it will resume playing from where it left off for about 10 seconds and then go totally silent.You have to disconnect the iPhone and then reconnect it to get the sound back (and that doesn't always work).
* USB storage device options are limited.It only supports FAT16 and FAT32 partitions, and only up to 32GB in size.
* In addition, it only supports up to 255 folders and 255 files per folder.That may seem like a lot, but I was planning on attaching a large solid-state drive to the unit with a copy of my entire CD collection, which far exceeds those limits.
* It only supports up to 320Kbps WMA encoding, and not lossless.I cannot listen to anything in my Windows Media library without converting it.
* The user interface often requires you to navigate through multiple menus/screens to perform common functions.For example, if you are playing music while the navigation screen is up and you want to change tracks, you have to navigate back to the AV source screen first.This is very distracting while driving, and all the more annoying given that the current song's title is shown at the bottom of the navigation screen.Why didn't they put a few common buttons (forward, back, pause) next to the song title?
Overall, I cannot recommend this unit.I have reconfirmed that all of these problems and limitations exist with the latest firmware versions as of Dec. 18, 2009 (GPS version 3.20 and player version 1.8).
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The Kenwood Excelon DNX9140 navigation receiver gives you turn-by-turn directions from its internal Garmin navigation system, plus built-in Bluetooth for safer hands-free calling. The DNX9140's VGA screen boasts a level of detail and brightness that's steps ahead of lesser models, for vibrant movie playback when you're parked, and outstanding detail and clarity when you're using the intuitive menus and navigation features.
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