Agreed. The phone call quality over USB is definitely worse. I'm on conference calls every morning, so I'm hoping this is addressed in the next FW release.
Ha, no doubt. I've been scouring this forum and the web daily, hoping the update will drop. We've got 31 days in the month of July... but any news is some news when we're impatiently waiting.
According to this article posted an hour ago on Consumer Reports site, the Carplay update is to be released in July.
http://www.consumerreports.org/cro/news/2014/06/pioneer-plans-to-be-pirst-with-apple-carplay/index.htm