GarryR3148 My 21 year old son helped me select this radio for my F350 diesel knowing how much I love the iPhone. The start up is a little slow but not a problem for me and the reason I purchased this unit was to have a hands free phone unit a charger GPS radio and iPod music. Pioneer has updated the software for the iPhone and the radio unit since I purchased it a couple of months ago and it is now a wonderful radio and meets my expectations. The hands free phone is clear both talking and listening and the sound through the speakers is easy to hear. It can be setup for auto answer or just touch the icon and it will answer the radio mutes and the caller ID displays number and name of the contact if they are in your phone. The radio also displays recent calls missed calls dialed calls and you can even play your voice mail through the radio. Also the radio connects to my phone via bluetooth as soon as I get in the truck and has an icon indicating that it has connected so even if the phone is not hard wired it's connected.The iPod plays well but selecting songs albums playlist is not as easy as on the iPhone. I tend to listen to playlist or artist so this is no problem for me and it really isn't difficult but Apple spoiled me. The Motion X GPS is top notch but they charge twenty bucks for voice directions not a bad deal. They also update the GPS through the Apple app store so you get the updates just like your other apps. The GPS can be used with the radio playing so you get directions while listening to music. The GPS is great the best I have used the screen is clear the voice is good and it is easy to hear. The visibility of the larger screen makes a huge difference and it returns to GPS after phone calls if you have it setup for a trip. The GPS gives great directions voice reminders right up to the turn good visual display with miles to next turn estimated time of arrival everything most people would expect.
Great idea horrible execution The Pioneer App Radio looked like the ideal system for my new truck it's sleek sexy. If you're willing to cough up another $250 you can add a backup camera that automatically kicks in when the vehicle is in reverse a feature I love on my Toyota Prius as well as the ability to keep an eye on your trailer while driving ideal for a truck. Add to that a seamless integration with my iPhone 4 and seemed like a dream come true.Except that it doesn't work very well. At all.As many other reviewers have pointed out even after the latest firmware upgrade the unit frequently locks up and won't respond to anything short of actually turning your car off and restarting it. Just by itself this is completely unforgivable.There's also this the AppRadio App itself feels like a trap to get you to install several applications that Pioneer has partnered with and most of these apps cost money AND require paid subscriptions. Most iPhone owners I know already have popular apps that fill these functions and many of them are free.Add to that the fact that the unit is riddled with so many legal disclaimers and warnings about using the device while driving that it's actually impossible to simply use your radio in any remotely normal fashion while driving without being distracted. Every other thing you click on brings up another disclaimer.Here's your morning commute with any normal car radio on earth Start your car turn on the radio drive away.Here's your morning commute with the revolutionary Pioneer App Radio. You start the car and after a 20 second flashy ego branding logo screen the app radio boots up into a legal disclaimer page about viewing visual content while driving.
Save your money Pioneer should never have released this product to the public in its current form. It is full of bugs and is a real pain to operate 9 months after its release new firmware update made no improvements. I've been a fan of pioneer for many years and have owned quite a few flagship nav receivers ex. Z120BT but pioneer is notorious for not updating firmware that listens to customer complaints. Each year they just release a new unit. Sure there are some updates but to get back to the point I wholeheartedly recommend you steer clear of the appradio unless you absolutely cannot afford to save some $ for a better unit. The price keeps dropping what does that tell you? I can't wait to get this out of my jeep! This unit is locked on certain functions for safety reasons easily bypassed while you are in motion but this is easily the LEAST safe unit they've ever created. You have to constantly push buttons on the phone then the radio and it switches back and forth for the apps or freezes and won't accept your finger press etc. Bottom line it's a mess. I gave it one star above what it deserves for being a good idea but poor execution.
So glitchy it is dangerous. I almost never review anything but this product is so incredibly glitchy and inconsistent in its behavior that it is dangerous to have in the car because it is a nonstop distraction. Every single application has some kind of serious glitch or behavior inconsistency that will have you constantly fiddling with the phone or suffering with the thing not working.
Just what I expected If you have trouble working a radio with knobs and a dial dont get this radio and complain about it. It does what it's supposed to do but it can be frustrating to someone who can't work it.
good idea gone wrong I had this radio was a good idea but it has a lot of problems. First problem I had was the radio would completely lock up if i was on the phone when before the bluetooth would conect. I would have to restset the radio all the time to get it to work again. Then there are not alot of useful apps that work with this radio. The Gps the outdated with lots of location missing. The sound is bad compaired to what you get with another unit of the some price range. All in all it just a bad raido save your money.
An adventure through inconvenience and poor quality! My goodness where do I begin? My experience with the Pioneer AppRadio is very bittersweet and not the best story I'm afraid.I purchased my unit from Best Buy brand new and factoryfresh and it was professionally installed in my sports car. I purchased an extra dedicated iPhone 4 just for use with this AppRadio and I had a really professionalquality mount installed into the dashboard for a more permanent installation of the iPhone 4 which would be completely dedicated to running this new AppRadio.Needless to say I was very excited. I will say that the installation team at Best Buy in Little Rock were extremely knowledgeable and very professional and friendly and took the extra measure to do a really nice installation.Only two weeks into having the AppRadio the screen went completely dead. Black zilch nothing. Of course I was heartbroken and quite upset about it. I called Pioneer technical support and they were rather lackluster in assisting me and were really of no help. Luckily the installation at Best Buy carries a lifetime warranty for as long as I own the stereo and this vehicle so I went back. Surely I figured something simple like a blown fuse or perhaps a loose wire would be the culprit. No big deal!Well I was sorely mistaken. They took the unit out and set it up on their workbench and it would not power on no matter what they did. The unit was completely and utterly dead. Unfortunately there were no more AppRadios in stock in any of the stores I purchased one of the last they had since Pioneer was releasing the new AppRadio 2 which was both iOS and Android compatible. So they could not just give me another one.I was told that I would have to send my unit into Pioneer for repair and they would either repair it or send me a REFURBISHED UNIT which really upset me but after thinking about it as long as it WORKS and still carries the full warranty then I don't care. But now the story is just starting to get interesting.I became rather acquainted with the staff at Best Buy because of my constant shopping there I am a computer engineer and I am always in there for SOME thing or other and I was taken aside and told in confidence that just about every single Pioneer AppRadio that they had sold had all been returned with the same fate. There is an inherent design or quality flaw in the production of these units and they ALWAYS die very quickly. They had taken so many back in it was ridiculous! WHAT?? How could Pioneer let such a horrible product out on the market? I suppose they figure it was too late and they would just fix them as they go..
The more I use it the more I love it I do not understand why this radio has some bad reviews but I wanted to write my own experience out just in case someone has doubts about this particular model radio. I bought mine a few weeks ago and to be honest was not quite impressed with it at first. I paid for installation on my Pathfinder which was a little more expensive since I have a Bose system and the guy made a hole through the side of my glove compartment so that my iPhone cable would come out and be stored in the glove compartment. This particular detail I did not like. The radio and the iPhone work hand in hand there is no such thing and only using the radio or only using the iPhone unless of course you just want to make calls via blue tooth or you want to listen to the radio those two things do not need to iPhone plugged in for.
crAppRadio comes with crappy service too. I purchased this radio in late August of 2011. Now it is late April so 8 months ago. I knew that the radio was a new thing and had a lot of glitches but being a diehard iPhone fan I sprung for it. I dealt with the glitches the freezing and the poor interface very well. Unfortunately however the cord that connects the iPhone to the unit went bad. It was a gradual thing first the AppRadio display would be pink and green because the iPhone connection was faulty. Soon I would need to attempt to connect and reconnect the phone over and over before the radio would see it. Until one gloomy sad day when the iPhone wouldn't plug in at all and as is already known the radio can do nothing without the iPhone accept play the radio which sounded terribleDespite hopes of a simple matter of replacing the cord I got the joy of a painful and excruciating process with customer service. In short I was told that I'd get the new cord no problemo but after getting them all the documents that they needed they finally told me that I HAD to remove the cord and ship it to them at my own cost. THEN and ONLY then would they ship a new cord.
A day in the life of an App Radio user Every day that I have to drive somewhere I feel pangs of disappointment about my Pioneer AppRadio. What could have been a really killer app is just a source of frustration. On paper AppRadio has all the promise of the Ford Sync indash bluetooth system. In practice it falls short in every possible way. Here's a quick walk through of what you have to endure every time you turn on the ignition1. Get in your car and connect the smartphone an iPhone in my case to the big black cable coming out of the radio. Wait 30 seconds for the selfserving animation on the splash screen to play through. As owners of the AppRadio do we really need to be subjected to Pioneer's AppRadio advertisement every time we turn the key?2. The first of four warnings pops up with a caution telling you how bad an idea it would be to actually to use your App Radio3. A second prompt comes up asking you to unlock your iPhone and reconnect it when it's safe and lawful to do so4. After unlocking and reconnecting a third prompt comes up explaining that viewing of front seat video source while driving is prohibited. What does that even mean? Are they afraid you're going to view a video podcast? It goes on to tell you that you need to apply your parking break release it apply it again and press OK. This as you might guess gets you nowhere. literally.04. Fourth prompt is the AppRadio app requesting permission to communicate with the Pioneer DisplayUnit.OperationRadio Usually within about 10 minutes the App Radio will shut off the radio and switch to Pandora for no apparent reason. Other times it will just shut off the radio and not switch to anything.IPOD playback of music & podcasts from iTunes library is decent when it works. Lately the iPod source switches to Pandora for no apparent reason.Streaming Pandora works quite well so in order to avoid prohibited interaction with the AppRadio just leave it on PandoraOther notesVery few apps work with the AppRadio yet. If Waze the BEST voice guided navigation app around would add AppRadio compatibility with iPhone it would help considerably. Waze already has the Android AppRadio connector working so one would think that this is going to happen.Final thoughtAll the legalese and warnings make this a barely usable device. It's particularly galling that the AppRadio does not recognize that there could be a passenger operating the system. It keeps on accusing the user of trying to do something illegal.
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