Customer Reviews

Rosen Video Am/fm/cd/dvd In-Dash System W/8 Lcd Display/nav/ipod/bluetooth/sat - Highlander

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The screen is impossible to see in bright sunlight, not a good idea for a gps map. The points of interests are in some cases 50 years out of date. I know because I am living where one of them is located. Imagine my suprise. Street names are not accurate. Again I am shown living on Erin Av, not Erie as it should be. I would like to be able to have the gps on the screen while listening to the radio. If the map is up the radio is off. I have had a Tom Tom and a Magellan. They are both much easier to find points of interests and addresses. The radio shows buttons for mp3 and ipod. The unit will not control my mp3 player. To make matters worse some of the cars features were actually disabled to install this unit. No more phone controls on the steering wheel or use of the cars usb console plug. I would not recommend this unit.

I bought this unit to replace a Pioneer Nav unit for my VW Jetta and frankly, I wish I'd kept the Pioneer. The Rosen Navigation unit is quite possibly the poorest designed product I've ever encountered. To be fair, the Navigation portion of the unit is OK, maybe a 5 on a 1-10 scale. The radio? How could they possibly screw that up? What astonishingly bad is the iPad interface. I swear to God, I seriously doubt anyone at this idiotic company even plugged in an iPod to see how it works. Yes, it does play the iPod, so Kudos for getting the sound out of the device. But try navigating around your iPod, try to search for a song or artist or album! It's impossible to do so without endangering the lives of your passengers or fellow motorists because the interface is so confounding you run the risk of rear-ending someone or veering off the road. Unbelievably, it's most detailed search parameter is a numerical input key. Imagine yourself (if you're like me with a couple of thousand songs) thinking, "Gee, I guess I'll play song 5,483. It's literally that insane. Plus, you have to painstakingly scroll alphabetically through all the various categories to search, ie,; song, artist, album with a touch panel the moves like molasses in January. If you play the iPod in random mode, it works, that is until it doesn't as it so often jams the iPod you have to jolt the iPod back to life with a hard reset. Then when you leave your car and expect the device to pick up the iPod on the tune you left off on, it starts all over again from literally song 1 (alphabetically) on the iPod all over again. Frankly I want to throw this thing through a window. An incredible rip-off at $1200. To be clear, I wouldn't take this unit again if it were given to me. It's that bad. Oh, and what's worse it the stunning indifference if you try calling those morons at Rosen to get some tech support. Not only is their phone number not listed on their web site (it took a bit of sleuthing for me to eventually uncover it), but they had the audacity to tell me that the next version would be better, if I was willing to buy another entire unit. When I asked about a software update they simply told me that they don't do that. Oh, and get this -- the bluetooth portion of the unit doesn't import your address book or contacts from your phone, despite the fact that virtually every other manufacturer does so as a basic feature. These clowns had the audacity to tell me that that feature would cost even more money. Horrible unit. Terrible company. YOU STAND WARNED!