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I wired my usb into my center arm rest. The lightening cable is more than long enough to hang outside of it so I can pick it up and use it.

I'm constantly connected to LTE. It also caches as much music as you have room for. So technically I have around 3000 songs on my phone. They just delete if the phone needs room.

I love all the options we have to add storage for this thing. I myself however just use itunes match ($30 a year) and my iphone. All 20,000+ songs right there whenever I need them without taking up space on my phone.

The 8000 because if I'm going to spend a pile of money I might as well get the best.

Its been really sunny here and I tend to leave my sun roof open. The glare has at times been pretty bad. I have to hold my hand up to block the sun to see what it says. I'll look into getting an anti glare protector.

Hey all, I'm going to be taking a video of some of the features tomorrow. It will be on my iphone 5s as that is all I have. If there is anything specific you would like to see let me know. I will try and get it in.

Great idea with the phone dock. If I had somewhere to do that in my Mazda I would have done something similar as well.

The Apple World Wide Developer Conference starts Monday. My guess, since macrumors.com is reporting a couple weeks for the firmware upgrade (and that was a couple weeks ago when they did that), that they will announcing the upgrade tomorrow maybe with pioneer. Might seems to be the way Apple does stuff but who knows.

 

Carplay was a major selling point for me but now that I have the unit if it's a dud (which I doubt it will be) I'm super happy with my 7000.

 

I'm still not sure what to think of the connected services though, I want to try them but I'm not sure id pay a subscription to keep them though.

Depends on the price of the sub. If its like $10 a year or something, I'd do it just to say I have it.

Looks like im SOL on this. They have Toronto for canada. You figure they would at least have Calgary or Vancouver out west. Oh well.

This makes more sense now. I knew of the app, just didn't click in what it did. Cheers.

Hey everyone I finally (month later) got all my parts in and installed my 8000nex. I was playing in the menus and noticed a section for weather and other features that when pressed said connect to a suitable wifi connection. How exactly do I go about doing this? I could put my iphone into a hotspot and connect to that if need be.

I will post some pictures and maybe a video of the unit when I get a chance. They will be iphone quality but it will still give people an idea if they are looking for a video.

Hopefully it does work out for you. The wiring harness for my car was $300.

Hey all. I am looking for some recommendations on a sound system. My current setup in my 2013 Mazda 3 Hatch, is a soon to be installed Pioneer AVIC-8000NEX with a stock Bose system. Includes a 6.5" sub and amplifier. I am looking to replace the entire system with aftermarket gear. I was hoping to get some suggestions on some higher quality gear. I don't have a price range right now but I'd like to keep it manageable. 

Front speakers 6x8, Tweeters 1, Rear Speakers (1) 6x8, Rear speakers (2) 3.5, Subwoofer 6.5

This is what MetraOnline says I have for components. I'm hoping to have two 10" subwoofers. I want to lean more towards sound quality but still would like some boom in there. I haven't looked much into brands other than JL right now. My old car had Kicker subs. I didn't have any problems with them but would like to steer towards something a little higher quality.

Any help, tips and suggestions will truly be appreciated.

Yeah I don't need an ipad strapped to the front of my car. 7" is perfect IMO.

I'm interested in this as well. I often have a friend that unplugs my iphone to charge theirs... 

I didn't like app radio on my 140. Carplay looks cool though. Either way I didn't purchase the unit for those features. I bought it because the touch screen isn't suck like the rest. Haha.

I know for my Z140BH in the brightness settings you could set day and night settings separately and then it would dim with my automatic headlights. I imagine its the same for the nex units.

Awesome, thanks for the quick reply!

Hello there. I just purchased a AVIC-8000Nex for my mazda 3. I am currently waiting on parts to install it but I have a question while I wait. I read that this unit is dual usb supported. Will I be able to have a lightning cable on one for my iphone 5s and a 30 pin on another for my ipod classic?