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Old 08-20-2012, 11:22 PM   #12 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Cagan View Post
You can't install the OEM? Which is considered the best nav? We really want to fit it in the top cubby where the OEM one goes, as opposed to where the audio panel is. We don't want to have to look down every time we want to see the screen - it'd be much better @ eye level and if its receded into the cubby it will be protected from glare. We'd really like a nav system that we could plug an iPhone / iPad into and be able to have it mimic the screen. It'd be great if the passenger could watch movies / tv shows from the iPhone / iPad while on a road trip. That way the driver (usually me) can listen to it and keep it somewhat in my side vision. Is that possible?
You want OEM nav. It completes the car and is a very good system with respect to usability, control, and look.

My wife and I agreed that for us the cubby just didn't look right. We sucked it up and found a loaded used model (Sport/Touring with nav)

Never looked back

As for watching video most/all OEM systems prevent this while moving unless you hack the unit. Yeah, a big FU to all us consumers in the name of litigation avoidance. Not sure if this system is easy to defeat or not. I personally see no reason for
a video to be playing while driving. If the passenger is that bored:

1. Drive harder: wake them up
2. Give them an iPad

- b

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