Car Stereo News for 03/02/2008



Is Windows Mobile Broken, or is it Alive and Well? - Mobility Site

Is Windows Mobile Broken, or is it Alive and Well?
Mobility Site, AL - 12 hours ago
When you purchase a car, you get a crappy included car stereo. If you want to upgrade, you can buy another crappy, overpriced car stereo from the .
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Top 10 DIY Car Hacks - Lifehacker

Lifehacker

Top 10 DIY Car Hacks
Lifehacker, CA - Feb 27, 2008
Wired's How to issue shows you how to plug into existing jacks (scroll down to "Wire your car stereo ."), while Make magazine offers a simple soldering .
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A curious, but satisfying, Journey (Chicago Tribune)
Journey is the first midsize crossover in the Dodge family. Its recent arrival in showrooms is driven largely by estimates that sales of the car-based sport-utilities are expected to top 1.2 million by the end of 2009...

Belkin TuneCast Auto for iPhone and iPod - iLounge

Belkin TuneCast Auto for iPhone and iPod
iLounge, CA - Feb 28, 2008
The most car compatible solution, notably popularized by Kensington, let you broadcast your iPod's audio to any car stereo with an FM radio built in, .
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Motorola Transmits Phones Calls to the Car Stereo - here's how!

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Motorola Transmits Phones Calls to the Car Stereo
here's how!, Canada - Feb 29, 2008
Once discovered (about 5 seconds), the T505 will audibly tell you what frequency you should tune your car stereo to. Then, you can use the cars speakers to .
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Wire your car stereo for an iPod?
Wire Your Car Stereo for an iPod. Driving with your headphones on is dangerous, and those FM adapters blow. Good thing its easy to install an auxiliary jack that you can plug directly into your MP3 player. 1. Rip it out ...

iCarPlay Wireless Plus
You could get a car stereo that plays MP3 directly, but if you don't have one of those you could burn audio cds, use a cassette adapter (if you have a car stereo that plays audio tapes), or your could use the iCarPlay FM transmitter. ...

Car Stereo being Tuned Out by Struggling Economy
It seems that the economy has not only been unfriendly to the auto industry, it has also adversely effected the car audio trade...

Tire slashing spree reported (Northwest Indiana Times)
HOBART | Police have fielded six reports this past week of tire slashing incidents as well as two car break-ins, Lt. Steve Houck said. The car break-ins were reported to police Friday morning in the 3700 block of Evergreen Street. Taken in those incidents was stereo equipment, he said...

Woman's car stereo presumed stolen (Tulare Advance-Register)
A stereo owned by a Pixley woman is missing and presumed stolen from her car, parked near her home...

Man charged in thefts from cars parked in Wolcott police lot (Republican-American)
WOLCOTT -- Police nabbed a Waterbury man who they say stole car stereo equipment from a vehicle parked in the police department's parking lot early Saturday...

Car Steres with USB support and no file limit
I currently have a car stereo (standard that comes with the car) with a USB port, but it limits the song files I can have in it to 255. Before I knew about this limit, I bought an 8GB USB drive to fill it up to the brims with music, ...

Porterville man reports car burglary - Visalia Times-Delta

Porterville man reports car burglary
Visalia Times-Delta, CA - Feb 29, 2008
A car stereo was stolen from a Porterville man in a burglary that happened Thursday. Johnny Cervantes told Tulare County Sheriffs deputies that his stereo .
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Jojo gets her iFreq on - Guardian

Jojo gets her iFreq on
Guardian, UK - Feb 28, 2008
I imagine the two devices (car stereo and iPod) will talk to each other through some kind of Wi-Fi set up. What one tip would you give to non-iFreq users? .
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Technological Improvements in Car Stereo Equipment
Different people like to spend their leisure time in accordance to their unique taste. One of the most common past-times is listening to music. Thanks to advancements in technology, one can now listen to his or her favorite music while ...

Motorola Transmits Phone Calls to the Car Stereo
. (its about the size of a cassette tape in its case EUR remember those?) also includes a digital FM transmitter that lets you listen to tunes from a connected A2DP music phone, or even make and receive calls, through your car stereo...

Ford in Sync with the youth market (Detroit News)
Ford Motor Co.'s Sync, which allows drivers to operate their car's stereo, personal music device and mobile phone by voice, has proven to be a winner with young consumers, a demographic the automaker needs to reach...

Navsure N400i stereo head unit with sat-nav (AutoExpress)
Choose built-in satellite navigation from the options list when youre buying a new car, and you will be lucky to get much change from 1,000. But if you install an in-dash navigation unit such as this from Halfords instead, you could save yourself hundreds of pounds...

Top Five Automobile Tech Trends - KREN CW 27 TV

Top Five Automobile Tech Trends
KREN CW 27 TV, NV - Mar 1, 2008
Companies then developed radio transmitters and cassette tape adapters that allowed iPods to play through a car's stereo speakers, but the sound quality .
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The state of radio (Richmond Times-Dispatch)
How do you listen? In the car? In the shower? On an iPod?..

Reward posted in car burglary spree (The Naperville Sun)
Naperville Crime Stoppers on Friday offered a reward of up to $1,000 for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the person or people responsible for burglarizing eight vehicles earlier this month in the parking lots of Naperville Central High School, 440 W. Aurora Ave...

Noise may not be a crime, city says (The Kalamazoo Gazette)
KALAMAZOO -- The 2006 traffic stop of a black Kalamazoo teenager for excessive noise from his car's stereo may prompt the city of Kalamazoo to decriminalize the offense...

Is Windows Mobile Broken, or is it Alive and Well?
When you purchase a car, you get a crappy included car stereo. If you want to upgrade, you can buy another crappy, overpriced car stereo from the manufacturer, or you can get a high quality stereo OF YOUR CHOICE for a lot less. ...

What's Killing The Car Stereo Industry? [Accessories]
A recent NPD Group and CEA study showed that car stereo sales and other car audio equipment had a steep decline in the fourth quarter of 2007. Single CD players dropped 4 percent, amplifiers dropped...

Woman's car stereo presumed stolen
A stereo owned by a Pixley woman is missing and presumed stolen from her car, parked near her home...

Win a Clarion car stereo - Telegraph.co.uk

Telegraph.co.uk

Win a Clarion car stereo
Telegraph.co.uk, United Kingdom - Feb 15, 2008
Such is the case with the Clarion FB278RBT (149.99): where once it was essential to have a cassette player or, later, a CD slot in your car, the current .
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Music helps when you clean your car - StarPhoenix

Music helps when you clean your car
StarPhoenix, Canada - Feb 29, 2008
The real appeal here is a single-DIN car stereo system in which consumers can plug their USB drives, which will easily retail for less than $200. .
Blaupunkt displays up to 4096 colours Driving.ca
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The state of radio - Richmond Times Dispatch

The state of radio
Richmond Times Dispatch, VA - 14 hours ago
. stores (for a comprehensive list, visit www.hdradio.com) and typically runs about $200 for a tabletop model and $99 to $350 for an in-dash car stereo. .
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Car Stereo Installation
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Cocaine haulers get the 'shaft' (Arizona Daily Sun)
A Department of Public Safety officer with a keen knowledge of automotives pulled nearly 14 pounds of cocaine from the drive shaft of a car Friday after a traffic stop near Kachina Village...



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