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iPhone and Alpine iDA-X001 - compatibility?

I have an Alpine iDA-X001 stereo system in my car which was designed by Apple / Alpine to make it the best iPod stereo on the market. It works brillianly with my 5th Gen iPod and my 2nd Gen Nano.
I purchased an iPhone a couple of weeks ago, but when I plug it into the stereo I get an error message saying its incompatible.

Obviously there won't be a firmware update for the stereo to make it work with the iPhone - so will there be a firmware update for the iPhone to make it work with the stereo?! I would have thought a 'Made for iPod' device like the iDA-X001 (which has only been on the market since April) would have been something that Apple made sure the iPhone worked with.

Posted on Oct 25, 2007 2:12 PM

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Entropic

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Apr 23, 2008 11:13 AM in response to Peter Rattray

I just got the IDA-X001 and it seems to work reasonably well with the iPhone, both in and out of airplane mode. When the phone is activated, the head unit automatically lowers the volume when I make a call. Album art comes up as expected. The only small glitch is that when I connect the iPhone and am listening to the radio, the head unit occasionally treats the already-connected iPhone as a new USB device, switching over to "iPod" and initializing it over and over.

I've also had some issues with the sound "skipping" or "hiccuping" (similar to, say, streaming audio that's short on bandwidth). Since I've had worse skipping problems (similar to an audio CD skipping on a scratch) with both the iPhone and a 1G Nano, I think this might be trouble with the head unit itself.

iPhone and Alpine iDA-X001 - compatibility?