AVIC Feeds iPhone App

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by **JasonH** on Mon Sep 21, 2009 8:36 pm

Pioneer has just released an AVIC Feeds application for your iPhone!

You can now find a location using google maps on your iPhone and send the destination via Bluetooth to your AVIC-Z110BT or U310BT.

Link to Pioneer

by **PSUnick** on Mon Sep 21, 2009 10:04 pm

by **Matt -- HB Cali** on Mon Sep 21, 2009 10:56 pm

I just received an e-mail from Pioneer about it too. I don't own an iphone or ipod, but getting this navi unit might force me to get at least one of them.

by **VBLUE42** on Tue Sep 22, 2009 3:16 am

Well this came out of nowhere. :shock:

I will be testing this and possibly doing a video demo of this soon.

by **VBLUE42** on Tue Sep 22, 2009 3:16 am

Ok first problem found. The ability to use geo tagged photos to plot your route only works if the photo is in your camera role. If it is in your photo album the app wont see it to allow you to save it as a photo to route from.

by **VBLUE42** on Tue Sep 22, 2009 3:17 am

Just did an overall test of the app and it does seem to work pretty well. The photos section of the app at this point is useless though sense it doesn't allow you to use previous photos stored in your photo album.

by **turbo_pascale** on Tue Sep 22, 2009 1:53 pm

I tested this today, and was able to use a photo taken earlier (a week ago) and it did work.
Yes, you must select it from the Camera Roll (not an album), and for some reason it took a long while to appear on the head unit, but it (eventually) showed up.

If they wanted to really make it useful, they would implement
(a) being able to click on the ADDRESS of a contact to send the search results to the maps app, to then return the address location
(b) use the full google maps functionality (rather than the cut-down embedded version in their app)

Rob

by **drod77** on Wed Sep 23, 2009 6:29 pm

How come no x910 or x710 love?

by **mattesonb** on Sat Sep 26, 2009 1:55 am

why is it the lowest and highest end units work with this but not the mid range? this would be great for the mid range x and f series

by **LBtaco** on Sat Sep 26, 2009 6:58 am

yeah im bummed, I have an iphone but the F900

apple should just shut down these posers and make car stereos :lol:

by **CamelTowing** on Sat Sep 26, 2009 8:07 am

Probably has to do with the bluetooth chip they buy from Parrot. The U and new Z are truly "new" models, the 710 and 910 are just F series with different software, so maybe the old bluetooth chip and/or software didn't have the bluetooth profile that the iphone needs to send the info

by **BigLou58** on Sun Sep 27, 2009 6:14 pm

Pardon the noob question here, but would an update to the BlueTooth software make it compatible? :?:

by **CamelTowing** on Sun Sep 27, 2009 8:25 pm

Apparently not, or they would've added it to the X models

by **VBLUE42** on Sun Sep 27, 2009 11:07 pm

This may also be intentional. This is how they separate the value of the more expensive unit from the budget unit.

by **JasonH** on Mon Sep 28, 2009 12:34 am

It's a Bluetooth chip compatibility issue.