Update on this thread:
Been using the Oxygen O'car in my Honda Element for months now. I have some gripes. It is not perfect... but overall... you'd have to pry it out of my cold dead hands. I still love it. If the bugs are fixed, it is a near flawless solution. I'd buy another as IS, with its problems again.
$300, this thing eliminated all the wires in my DD car. It constantly charges my phone, and it places it at EXACTLY the right height and makes it easy to see and a breeze to type into. Yes, I once in a while hit SIRI on my iPhone4S and tell her to Text people. I simply talk, it types.
The ability to rotate the unit landscape or straight is perfect. The ability to angle it toward me is terrific. It makes it just right. When I park I watch youtube and HULU videos.
I did the Navigon app for $50 and another $20 to get instant traffic info and it works better than my super expensive stand alone navigation system. Turn by turn with street names read, it always instantluy knows where it is, and if sat signal is lost it switches to locating itself using cell tower triangulation. Every once in a while I get the "re-routing due to new traffic information". Sure enough as I am getting off the exit I see a jam in the far distance.
No worries on running multiple apps at the same time with my 4S, I can run pandora, my nav, and e-mail/text at the same time.
The flaws are: The bluetooth on the unit is fairly poor in sound quality. Not as good as just using the built-in speaker phone. I hooked up the attached microphone and it works OK, I can make calls, but its not all that clear. I just use the speakerphone in the phone itself instead and leave the bluetooth off.
At nights, if it is pitch black, you need to turn on the interior light to insert your phone into the unit. Having a light around the 32 pin connector would have been nice, but its not there. The radio app for it is SLOW as hell if you want to use it for tuning in stations. I don't use it much because I use iHeart Radio on my phone instead. I get more data, cover art, and the NAV can override the music. If you use the radio app, you use the unit's internal tuner... that overrides everything, and so your nav becomes silent. It's still a nice feature to have that secondary AM/FM terrestrial tuner, but I can live without it. It is nice if I don't happen to have my phone.. the unit still works, just tuned into the last station you left it on. Also when using the terrestrial tuner you have 16 presets so the fact that it tunes slow is not a big deal. It is a flaw that should be addressed, you swipe your finger on the tuner dial on the phone display 4 times and it goes from 90.3 to 90.7.... Come on....
I am going to wait for the O-dock and do a nice install in the NSX come spring. It will directly feed my JL audio 6 channel amp that weighs in at 5 pounds. 2 will feed my super light component speakers, and 4 will bridge into two to drive my bass transducers mounted into my seats.
Amazon only lists the O'Car... :frown:
