oh yes

i wonder if the Navigation will work better than the D3 i hope the F series wont take you 50 miles out of your way like the d3 does!

WELL I LIKE THE NAVIGATION ON THE D 3, I DRIVE FOR A LIVING AND I USE A GARMIN AT MY JOB , WHEN I GO TO DOVER AFB FROM ARLINGTON VA IT ADDS A WHOLE HOUR ON THE TRIP VERSUS GOING MY OWN WAY AND I TAKE THE HOUR OFF.

OK, the best of the F series looks like it might be better for me than the Z3. Any opinions on the F series vs. the Kenwood 8120?

Well,

i got installed my F900BT yesterday and i have to say i am very disappointed.

1. The power on time takes in total about 2 minutes (toooooo long!)

2. Voice commands are not present and no mention about them in the instruction manual

3. I connected both an ipod touch and an iphone and the unit is not able to play videos by both of them (the video menus are not displayed at all).

4. BlueTooth handsfree calls with both Iphone and Nokia N73 is working great, address book import from the N73 slow but successful, no way to import the iphone one.

5. Navigation is anyway good as well as music from ipod/iphone, usb and SD.

6. Playing with the ipod command caused 3 times a unit reset (this is really bad!).

Sofware revision is 1.0000, i hope there will be soon a new revision on the Pioneer website.

I live in Italy and the car integration had been done on a Jeep grand cherokee by a specialist. Maybe the Euro version is different from the USA version ?

Federico

Z-series:

bigger, almost 7 inch screen

no nav disks

10 gigs of music storage

dual zone

stubborn voice command for everything

sluggish ipod control without video support

pioneer bluetooth

2-volt preouts

 

F-series:

smaller, 5.8" screen but higher resolution than Z

no nav disks

built-in parrot bluetooth (works better with most phones than pioneer)

voice recognition for ipod and bluetooth

nice ipod interface that transfers video

divx and mp3 dvd supported (only on 900 and 90 models)

2-volt preouts on 700 and 900, 4-volt on 90

 

Seems there are still plenty of people that will want the Z for the big screen, dual-zone, and music storage. I however am not one of them...would rather have good bluetooth and my ipod for music storage at a lower cost

Has anybody tried hooking a laptop HDD to this unit via a standard USB enclosure? I would think that would work, but I'd like to make sure before I look into buying one. Also, is it as simple as adding your music library to the external memory device and the unit lists the actual folder names? One of the biggest shortcomings to my Z3 is the fact that it will not sort the library by Artist-->Album-->Song. It looks as though a standard folder hierarchy is used with these that would allow one to sort by Artist then Album...correct?