| Brand Name: | Dice |
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Technical Details
- Control Your iPod from the headunit, steering wheel, and IPod.
- CD quality sound.
- Displays text on 2003 and newer vehicles with a 'text' button.
- Works on Lexus models 2005 and newer.
- Extra auxillary audio input for a second audio device.
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Product Description
The DICE i-Mazda-R2-5v iPod Integration Kit for Mazda SAT Systems is a factory iPod intergration kit that gives CD quality sound. It can be controlled from the ipod, radio and steering wheel. Supports text on text-capable systems and includes an extra auxiliary input. Connect your iPod to your Mazda's factory entertainment system and hear what your iPod should sound like in your car. Always keeps your iPod charged and ready to go. Radios with a SAT button will also display text from your iPod allowing you to view song title and artist name right on your radio's display. (Factory SAT will need to be disconnected.) Features: • Charges the iPod • Direct audio from your iPod to your car radio. • Controls the iPod from the radio controls. • Will work with in-dash CD changers that are part of the main radio. • Gives you an extra audio input as well as the iPod interface. • Compatible with factory navigation systems.
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
Almost Uselss,
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This review is from: Dice i-Mazda/Mazda 3 & 5 /Protege/Tribute/ IPod Adapter w/ Aux Audio Input (Electronics)
I bought this unit for my '07 Camry with Navigation after DICE Electronics assured me that it was compatible. While I guess you could say that it works with my stereo/nav unit, it's so unreliable that it is almost useless. I go on long drives and listen to a lot of audiobooks on my iPod. If I make a quick stop, upon restarting my car, I often find that the book (or podcast, or song, or whatever) has been reset back to the beginning. If I didn't happen to notice the exact hours and minutes of the audiobook, I have to search through it to find my place. Very annoying and a real time waster. It also randomly pauses my iPod without me touching it, then restarts it again a few seconds later. It is capable of displaying the title and track name from the iPod, but then inexplicably blanks this information out. If I switch to map view and then back, the info reappears. If I disconnect and then reconnect the iPod (and who wouldn't, as that's kind of the whole point of having one), the DICE unit makes the iPod "forget" my place in the playlist. Upon reconnecting, it will always play the same track, out of the 10,000 or so on the iPod. I mean, I like "...And You Will Know Us By The Trail of Dead," but I'm damn sick of hearing the opening of that one song. Finally, I should mention that when I sent this complaint via their online system, it took 6 weeks before anyone even posted a "say, did anyone ever help you with this?" When I answered in the negative, I never heard another word. Apparently, they don't care if they have unhappy customers. Do yourself a favor, buy a VAISTech unit instead. It does the same thing, and while the reviews have been mixed, they have been far better than the DICE's.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Best option out there (for now),
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This review is from: Dice i-Mazda/Mazda 3 & 5 /Protege/Tribute/ IPod Adapter w/ Aux Audio Input (Electronics)
I originally was to put the ICE unit in my 4runner, but decided to wait when DICE was announced as I would gain a mini-jack aux port. Installation I did myself without any trouble. (If you are a 4Runner owner - excellent instructions on dash removal (very easy) here - [...]. Make sure that you set the dip switches 'up' (all of them) if you want text - this is not clear in the instructions.Works great - no trouble at all once the dip switches were set correctly. The unit sometimes will not come on when the car has been turned off for a period of time. Two solutions I know of - One turn car back off and restart, or #2 - Turn off radio before turning key off. Sound quality - I'm a bit picky so take this with a grain of salt. The sound is not great. Not nearly the quality as from a CD, but better than the tape converter which I have used, and much better than any FM transmitter I've used. This could be due partly the sound quality from the iPod itself, I need to experiment with some lossless files and see if that makes a difference. But overall the unit does what it says - iPod control from the stereo with text on the radio - For that I would give it 5 stars, for sound quality it is hard to give more than 3 stars. Some adjustment of the EQ helps, podcasts sound great. So overall 4 stars.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
DICE is awful (both the product and the customer service),
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This review is from: Dice i-Mazda/Mazda 3 & 5 /Protege/Tribute/ IPod Adapter w/ Aux Audio Input (Electronics)
I bought this for my Toyota 4-Runner because it was GUARANTEED to be compatible. Of course, once I received it and paid to have it installed, it proved not to work as advertised. If I turn off the car while the stereo is on and the iPod is playing, when I turn the engine back on the stereo doesn't come back on. If I turn it on, it will only play the radio and will not turn on the iPod function. The only way to fix this is to turn the iPod and stereo off before turning the engine off, then turning it back on once the engine is on. There are other small issues as well. DICE customer service said that this is a known compatibility issue with Toyotas, yet they are still selling the unit as "Guaranteed Compatible." Not only that, they promised on the phone to refund the total cost, including S/H and installation, but now that they have received the unit back they won't refund me, saying that all I can get is a replacement. But a replacement doesn't solve the problem because this is a compatibility issue, not a defective unit. Not only that, I'm out the $15 shipping I paid to receive it, the $50 install fee, and the $12 I paid to send it back to them. Way too much to pay for a unit that does not work as advertised. DO NOT BUY THE DICE IPOD ADAPTER!!!!!!!!
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