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Actually, my wife found it. This might be silly but I was surprised and never heard anyone mention it here. It's a a cool feature for the map. I have a Z1 with the two wire by-pass along with a bunch of other goodies. You know how on the map, you can touch an area and "center" there? You can keep plunking your finger down to touch a spot to the right or to the left and move around the map away from where you are. This week my wife put her finger on the map pointing to something and held it there and the map kept scrolling and scrolling. As long as your finger is held down, it will sc

Outhouse, didn't realze that's where you were going with the post so I take back the hi-jack comment. I hear what you're saying about the price but bottom line is there's nothing out there that's better at a lower price. I put mine in a 2007 Denali (moved from a Suburban) and I looked at the factory NAV, wasn't impressed. Thoght more of the Pioneer with the built in HD.

Well, this thread got high-jacked to temp problems... MadMonkey was asking about EBay sellers. I personnally wouldn't buy an expensive electronic system from an EBay seller but apparently a lot of people have and it's been successful. One recent post is: http://www.avic411.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=8934 EBay is safer than Craig's List so you'll probably be fine. There are methods to protect yourself so good luck. I'm an almost 2 year owner of a Z1 and very pleased. Just waiting for the DVD to be released from Pioneer to update it now that it's confirmed it will still work with

I had a lot of problems with a Treo W and WX. I did not try the latest software that recently came out but instead picked up an iPhone. Not the fully functional PDA but pretty close. The Treo was horrible with the Z1. When it worked, lots of echo. No changes to the Z1 or mic and the new phone works great. I was surprised. I figured bluetooth was bluetooth but a difference there was. Email is the only thing that is not as good yet other than sync'ing over the air for calendar and contacts. Sync's great over the cable bidirectionaly. Email with Exchange is a problem unless you're wi

Thanks guys. There hasn't been a good flame war here for a while and this has been entertaining. Made my Sunday morning You put some good effort into it. I like the links to supporting evidence! digxrayguy

Do you know how much of an area a repeater covers? Is it like an AM signal, an FM signal or a cellular signal? I was also on a long weekend trip to Vegas last weekend and had a signal to Bakersfield, spent the night there, had no signal in the AM for the drive to Vegas but had it on the way back three days later. Weird stuff. If you're confident the Sat coverage has been good, I'm gonna be questioning my hardware but it's strange to be intermittant the way it is. digxrayguy

Your question is a little unclear. It sounds like you have the icon where you can shut up the guidance voice on the bottom right activated and not in shut up mode. Other than that, yes you have to have a destination selected to get help. If your grayed out, you must not have the bypass set up but if you stop, you should still be able to set a destination and have the lady telling you where to go. That's also the only way to get NavTraffic to warn you of pending slow downs in front of you for re-routing options. It has to know where you're going to help you out. If your question is not an

I live in Northern Cal and drive a lot visiting customers in the Bay area and Redding to Freno out to Reno. In the valley, with no obstructions, lately I seem to be with no signal often, 2 or 3 times a week. Antenna looks good, on the same trip a few hours later after spending time with ripped or CD based stuff, it'll be working again. It appears to me that the sattelite signal is just not there more often than I would have expected. Is anyone else noticing this on the West coast? I have on occaison checked the signal strength and it's there or not there depending on the availability of D

I updated my 700wx to an iPhone - all resetting problems went away, blue tooth works great, much better hi res screen I can read with out glasses or huge fonts, lots of smiles on my face for a very cool OS... OK, I'm being a ass but I got so pissed at the crap OS from MS and the need to reset it all the time and just plain stupid stuff. The change has been very nice and working well. digxrayguy

It's not as good as something like Parrot but I discovered that a different phone is a lot better. I had a Treo 700wx that was nothing but trouble needing to be reset very often. New phone (not a Treo) - bluetooth sounds pretty good. I also changed carriers from Verizon to ATT. Someone mentioned the GSM models seem to do better then the CDMA. All third hand, no practible experience on that but it's an interesting thought. Digxrayguy

With mine, I don't have a menu but if I pick up the phone and hit the answer button on the phone, it's private. If I hit the answer button on the Z1, it's on the speaker/mic. Pretty simple for my use. Digxrayguy

I got the 8GB model. $699.00. A case and a car charge and I put down close to $750.00. So far I'm happy but it's a lot for a phone. Now I'm thinking about the iPod to Z1 connector but XM keeps me pretty happy. It's GSM so I'm surprised it's not up North? I do have to admit I've not been an Apple fan but my wife was shopping in some clothing store and next door was an Apple store. Ten minutes in the hand and that's all it took. I'm a sucker for toys and it's got an amazing OS. Needs a lot but it's very acceptable the way it is. Digxrayguy

Got rid of my POS Treo WX that needed to be reset once a day for an iPhone. Works very well. With the Treo, I had echo complaints and the bluethooth update disk did not help - at all. Did all the other tricks with phone volume way down, reset the Z1, re-pair etc, etc. Still lots of Echo. With the iPhone, easy pair, works great. No echo, decent sound for whom I'm calling. Not as good as my Parrot I had before the Z1 but way better and I refuse to wear bluetooth jewlery. DigitalX-RayGuy

Baited breath here guys... Any luck with the CD's that we're supposed to be recieved today? I'd like to buy it but am waiting for a by-passable version like many others. Your follow up is gratly appreciated. Digxrayguy

You probably should try a new mic. That and/or a different phone to try and isolate the source of the problem. Good Luck. Digxrayguy