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Alpine’s iXA-W404 Touchscreen iPhone Compatible Car Receiver Hands On
11:06AM Gizmodo US Edition | Alpine’s iXA-W404 with its 4.3-inch QVGA touchscreen and iPhone compatibility is fully capable of navigating all your iPhone’s music, movies, tv shows, and more by the touch of your finger.
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Sony HCB-108 Bluetooth Car Speaker Has Longest Standby, Talk Times
8:31PM Kit Eaton | Yeah, I know: Bluetooth car speaker/microphone systems blah blah… but this one’s got a such a battery lifespan it’s a bit different. Clipped to your car’s sun visor (or on your desk as a speakerphone) it’ll sit on standby for a full month, and if you choose to chat using it, you can do so for a chunky 25 hours, which is apparently the longest time for both options that you can buy. It’s also got “superior true duplex audio quality” with echo reduction and noise cancelling, to try and stop you from sounding like you’re speaking using the local cabbie’s dodgy CB radio. Due at the end of the year, price still to be announced. [Pocket-lint] More »
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Hide Your Fancy Car Stereo Behind a Very Crappy Car Stereo
9:20AM Adam Frucci | So you got yourself a fancy new stereo for your car. It’s all well and good while you’re driving, but when you’re out of the car you know damn well that it’s a magnet for ne’er-do-wells who are just itching to take a crowbar to your window and forcibly remove your fancy apparatus from your dash. What to do? Simple: disguise it with a really crappy looking stereo faceplate, complete with a half a cassette sticking out. More »
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Griffin WindowSeat Holds Your iPhone/iPod Touch at Eye Level For Convenient Viewing, Face Hitting
5:00AM Jason Chen | This Griffin WindowSeat is a suction cup-based iPhone/iPod touch mount for your car, allowing you to keep your phone at eye level for easy map viewing and voicemail checking. What’s left unsaid is how sturdy this thing is in case of an accident, and whether it will come careening off your window or dashboard into your face to make a comically iPhone-ish indentation on your cheek. Either way, it’s US$29.99, which isn’t all that expensive for the ability to surf the internet while driving (kidding). [Griffin via PCWorld] More »
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