On Pioneer's website for the upcoming X930, the specifications list has no check marks next to all of the voice command functions indicating that the new model will actually not have this capability. Is this true or just a mistake on the website?
http://www.pioneerel...ion/AVIC-X930BT
AVIC-X930BT - no more voice commands?
Started by Newman, Jan 12 2011 09:23 PM
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Posted 13 January 2011 - 01:31 AM
Sadly, voice command was in fact removed from the X930.
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Posted 13 January 2011 - 02:27 AM
That means no one that wants to keep that feature on their 920 should upgrade to the 930. Ultimately however, people wont be aware of that and will upgrade and be furious and there wont be a way to go back.
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Posted 13 January 2011 - 03:46 PM
That means no one that wants to keep that feature on their 920 should upgrade to the 930. Ultimately however, people wont be aware of that and will upgrade and be furious and there wont be a way to go back.
Thats exactly what I was thinking. They must be planning on keeping the 920 separate and releasing updates for the 920 and 930 individually. no way they are going to force people to give up that feature.
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Posted 13 January 2011 - 04:23 PM
As far as I know the 920 will be upgradable to the 930.
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Posted 13 January 2011 - 05:04 PM
Wow way to go Pioneer and give up one of the only features that the AVICs had over Sony/Kenwoods.
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Posted 14 January 2011 - 03:39 AM
Wow way to go Pioneer and give up one of the only features that the AVICs had over Sony/Kenwoods.
it does seem a bit silly
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Posted 14 January 2011 - 03:49 PM
Wow way to go Pioneer and give up one of the only features that the AVICs had over Sony/Kenwoods.
Granted, the Z still has voice commands but now you could say the X is actually behind Kenwood because even their low-end navs have voice tagging capability for bluetooth.
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Posted 16 January 2011 - 06:57 PM
Wait a minute....does this mean no more VOICE DIALING OF PHONE CALLS???
That can't be right....it would make no sense whatsoever to take a huge step backwards in both capability and safety while driving.
Tell me I'm misinterpreting this part. I simply CANNOT believe people won't be able to dial phone contacts by voice in the new units. This would be the most idiotic decision possible....
That can't be right....it would make no sense whatsoever to take a huge step backwards in both capability and safety while driving.
Tell me I'm misinterpreting this part. I simply CANNOT believe people won't be able to dial phone contacts by voice in the new units. This would be the most idiotic decision possible....
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Posted 16 January 2011 - 07:49 PM
I think its safe to assume that sense the unit has BT built in that it will still support VR for making calls and source change. The lack of VR is likely pertaining to navi functions.
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Posted 16 January 2011 - 07:52 PM
Well I don't know. If you look at the web site it indicates it doesn't support VR for anything. I guess we will have to wait and see. This certainly wouldn't be the first time Pioneer made a stupid design decision.
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Posted 17 January 2011 - 09:08 PM
Pioneer dropped the ball on the 930. It was nice to see the return of the volume knob and a removable section of the face, but VR is gone and once again you have to shift to the Z to get solid preamp. To boot, why Pioneer can't move forward and do like Kenwood and release a mini tuner for XM (for those of us who would like to use XM in three cars and not pay three times what XM is worth) and/or make it possible to properly label HD radio stations is a mystery.
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Posted 21 January 2011 - 01:30 AM
For those of you with X920's, you'll still have VR after upgrading to the 2011 (X930) software.
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Posted 25 January 2011 - 08:54 PM
For those of you with X920's, you'll still have VR after upgrading to the 2011 (X930) software.
Will this really be an option for us 920 owners? Did they mention that at CES? Is the new 920's already preloaded with the same software as the 930? Hmmm, I'm all excited now.
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Posted 26 January 2011 - 12:43 AM
Why would he have reported it if it wouldn't really be an option? 
And no, there are no 920's with the 930 software.
And no, there are no 920's with the 930 software.
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