Giftzwerg
12/15/2009 11:43:00 AM
In article <akKVm.62105$813.1825@tornado.fastwebnet.it>,
reckall@hotmail.com says...
> > It's in the list of podcasts I listen to driving from/to work.
>
> N00b question: my 1990 vintage car stereo is about to croak. What kind of
> device would you guys suggest as a replacement? (to listen to podcasts and
> whatnot). I'm totally clueless re: car thingies.
These days, the sky's the limit on such things. A friend of mine just
bought a new Ford with the "Sync" system onboard, and it's just amazing;
it syncs with his iPod, phone, whatever. If you put a CD into the
player, it rips it to the internal hard disk. It offers turn-by-turn
GPS. It has hands-free phoning and music with a voice-recognition
system. It even reads his text messages and emails to him.
All he needs now is a beanie with a satellite disk on top.
This is kinda the upper end of the spectrum, though. My car stereo just
has a dock for my Zune so I can listen to my podcasts and audiobooks. A
dock - instead of onboard memory - is nice because I can listen to my
earphones while I'm walking to and from the car, and just plug into the
dock when I'm driving for a more-or-less seamless listening experience.
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