James Sonne

Actually, ferrium is iron. Gold is not a magnetic metal.

Anyone try the Samsung SGH-A707 (aka AT&T/Cingular Sync)? with the bluetooth 100 module it autoconnects and btaudio works, but no battery/signal icons. I'm wanting to upgrade to the 200 due to echo.

The D3 has only one disc slot, that's to what I was refering. Also, the D3 is wired to both 12V and ACC, so it's getting power all the time. There's no need for it to store in ROM, although it may store (and hopefully does store) some settings in ROM, such as EQ settings, presets, background images. The map data is read off of the DVD disc and stored in the system's RAM, though.

The RAM stores the navigation route from the disc, since there is only one slot on the D3. Many BIOS's have a restriction on the maximum amount of RAM that they recognize, hence my asking if there is a RAM limitation. Also, the navigation software very easily could simply be coded to store x MB of map data into memory instead of just filling up the memory. So, has anybody opened up a D3 yet for any reason?

I recently purchased a D3, and I am curious if anyone here has been brave enough to open up their D3 to see how the RAM is installed, and if it is in standard memory slots. If that is the case, has anyone tried adding more RAM? If someone has, has it worked or is the D3 programmed for 64MB? I might try to check the FCC website to see if they have disassembled images. In the mean time, anyone have any thoughts?