11.24Pioneer AVIC-X920BT Double-Din Navigation Review
New for 2010, the Pioneer AVIC-X920BT slots in just below our current favorite all-in-one receiver and Pioneer’s flagship, the AVIC-Z110BT. This model keeps intact a good number of it’s big brother features that we have – and a few that we didn’t – while bringing some new tricks on the dashboard, like pandora link that control of the Pandora Internet radio app takes on a coupled iPhone, so you controls for skipping tracks, the voting booths and evaluation songs from the AVIC the touch screen.
In the center of the interface X920BT a large 6.1-inch color touch screen is WXGA. Most of your interactions with the navigation, telephone and multimedia systems is done via the touch screen. Above the screen are a DVD slot and a microSD card slot. To the left of the screen, and next to the driver is a bank of buttons. Starting from the top of the deck, there’s a volume rocker, a home-skip button, a mode button, a track rocker and a voice command button. The volume, skip, and voice command buttons behave exactly as you would expect.
Press the Home key, a main menu calls with the AVIC-X920BT three important functions: destination input, speakerphone, and the choice of an AV source. Press the Home button a second time brings a customizable home page that can access up to 15 shortcuts to frequently used functions such as navigation to the nearest gas station or the user keep favorite restaurant. The Mode button switches between the navigation control system and monitoring of the system of audio-visual playback.
Multimedia Player
Despite Pioneer plastering the box with “Made for iPod” and “Works with iPhone” logo, has the AVIC-X920BT not appear to “iPod ready” out of the box are. When we connected our iPod, the device would scan and analyze the iPod library, but it would not play when the audio with X920BT the USB port. After reviewing the instructions, we found that an optional cable for iPod and iPhone will need to enable audio playback, a cable that we have no access during our tests.
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With the right iPod cables, the AVIC-X920BT should function similar to the AVIC-Z110BT deck we tested last year. The system first scans the connected players and create a voice command index of the media. You can then use voice commands to call a particular artist, album, song or genre. Of course, touch-screen browsing of the iPod taxonomy is also available.
The AVIC-X920BT has a very cool iPhone-based trick up its sleeve when it is coupled with the Pandora Internet radio service. You can download the Pioneer Pandora app to link their iPhone and, when paired with the right cable, the control of the Internet Radio Pandora app on the iPhone when the X920BT the touch screen. You can album art and metadata, choose Pandora radio stations, skip tracks, and rate songs with a thumbs up or down. There is also the possibility of a song or artist for later retrieval and purchase on the website of Pandora’s bookmarks.
Another feature is the iPod-based unit MusicSphere technology. MusicSphere is essentially an iTunes plug-in analyzes your iTunes library and created a collection of 40 custom playlists on BPM, mood, rhythm, pattern-based, and year of publication. These playlists can be synchronized to an iPod or iPhone and can be the X920BT MusicSphere’s interface – a 3D graphics, animated spherical the user navigates by brushing up and down, left and right. The software can also MusicSphere a 100-song non-stop music mix, again with transition effects, such transitions can be played between songs. The MusicSphere plug-in is only for PC now, with a Mac version later this year.
In addition to iPod integration, the X920BT a wide range of available audio sources. A USB pigtail you can support Flash and media players, USB mass storage mode. There is also a 1/8-inch auxiliary analog audio input pigtail. Its Bluetooth system supports A2DP audio streaming of music phones and Bluetooth audio adapter.
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Just above the unit 6.1-inch WXGA touch screen, a DVD slot that allows you to play DVDs, DivX-encoded video discs and audio CDs. The X920BT supports Dolby Digital audio decoding, but it has only a four-channel internal amplifier, at 4 W x 50 is rated max, 14W x 4 RMS. You can upgrade the receiver with other audio sources such as HD Radio and Sirius XM Satellite Radio connection with the purchase and support add-on modules.
Navigation
As part of the X920 installation, you can connect an external GPS antenna and can tap its optional speed pulse sensor. The device also has a three-way electronic gyroscope. An algorithm collects information from these sets of sensors and the navigation system can theoretically become sensitive, what do the actual vehicle, for example, you have the slightly left or not? A screen in the Settings menu displays the status of the system of learning as a series of bars. The AVIC’s maps include 3D landmarks and buildings data for large cities, but it does not have any terrain data as much as we can tell. The controls on the screen for zooming and overlaying points of interest icons on the map are beating a bit small and hard. However, once worn, they expand to larger buttons and submenus to reveal. You can navigate the map, but touching and dragging, but there are no pinch and zoom support on resistive touch panel of the AVIC.
Pioneer spans the X920BT with a POI database that can be searched by name or category. You also have the option of using the device voice command system, enter an address. Once en route, the system clearly, business turn-by-turn directions with text-to-speech street names and graphic lane guidance and detailed information. Strangely, Pioneer still devotes a large part of the Destination menu, a shortcut of MSN Direct, though Microsoft plans to shut off the service at the end of 2011. Out of the box is the symbol dim, indicating it is inactive until the MSN Direct-on module is installed to add. With the MSN Direct service, which X920BT given access to monitoring and data services, including fuel price updates, weather forecasts, local events and movie showtimes.
The navigation system also has an ECO-drive image, and economically, take the surface streets, highways and monitored as the average of the two. The ECO calculations take into account information from the GPS antenna, speed sensor and acceleration sensor when scoring your habits gathered. Place a microSD card into the slot of the device bezel allows the unit ECO logging functions that tracks and stores the speed of the vehicle and travel data on the memory card for later analysis of Pioneer AVIC Feeds software.
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You may also be able to Pioneer AVIC feed is free for iPhone and Blackberry, you can search and manage to see and attractions away from the vehicle download with the iPhone touch screen. You can even pull addresses from the Internet or from a geotagged photo. This POI can be sent to the AVIC-X920BT from the handset via Bluetooth, stored, and as targets for turn-by-turn navigation.
Bluetooth
This is X920BT features Bluetooth wireless connectivity Parrot power. We have already discussed the audio streaming aspect, but there are also hands-free calling. During installation, you install a small microphone – preferably near the driver’s head – with the help of voice quality in noisy environments, which is a moving vehicle. When used with a mobile phone, the Bluetooth Phonebook Access Profile are coupled supports, the X920BT import address book and index, so you call the control of the voice.
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Summary
The Pioneer AVIC-X920BT does it all and then some. We want that in addition to being a fully-fledged navigation receiver, the multimedia playback handles a variety of digital sources, and speakerphone, the X920BT several software and hardware upgrade options available. are in addition to the-on modules for HD Radio and satellite radio, we see earlier for recipients such as this add, Pioneer has also apps for the iPhone, Blackberry and Windows PCs, you better make your music, add audio sources help to save fuel and help the user to always from point A to B.
Note also the AVIC-X920BT fantastic use of voice command for destination entry, free speech and song selection and you have a serious cohesive package that increase a vehicle cabin tech with a single box can. So make sure to pick up iPod connection cable before you leave the store.
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