S3 headunit connectivity

[Rallye James]

I'm looking to replace the headunit in my car soon and I want to know what options I have for connecting my S3 to play music.

I currently have an Alpine headunit, which has some witchcraft behind it to enable the use of the dash controls which I'd like to keep.

I guess I would need to stay with Alpine for the dash controls, but does anyone know what options I have to connect the phone, either by a lead or wirelessly by bluetooth or similar and whether I would be have to control the music from the phone or from the headunit?

 

[Shockwave78]

I'm looking to replace the headunit in my car soon and I want to know what options I have for connecting my S3 to play music.

I currently have an Alpine headunit, which has some witchcraft behind it to enable the use of the dash controls which I'd like to keep.

I guess I would need to stay with Alpine for the dash controls, but does anyone know what options I have to connect the phone, either by a lead or wirelessly by bluetooth or similar and whether I would be have to control the music from the phone or from the headunit?

I have a pioneer x930bt and when I had my Gnex I could stream everything through it via Bluetooth. The pioneers have a built in iPod interface and it is just a 100x better than steaming off your phOne. Of course if you have a single DIN setup then google music steaming is fine. Any double din though I would just buy an iPod use the built in interface on the deck itself.

 

[Crafty]

Does your headunit have an aux in socket ?

You could use one of these:
Belkin : AirCast Auto HandsFree

They do a cheaper version that is a bluetooth receiver that plugs in via the aux socket too.

If you just want it for calls you could just buy a parrot system or similar

 

[Rallye James]

Current one has absolutely no inputs at all, it's quite old I think. It's a single DIN as that's all there is roof for where it is

 

[Crafty]

In that case..

 

[Rallye James]

That would be ideal, looks to stream music. It's out of stock though.

Did find a very similar one for a little bit more

 

[wjcorner]

Does your headunit have an aux in socket ?

You could use one of these:

They do a cheaper version that is a bluetooth receiver that plugs in via the aux socket too.

If you just want it for calls you could just buy a parrot system or similar

you know if it will be compatible with s voice or whatever hands free calling app the phone will have? For example, is there a way for me today call aunt Jane, and the phone call her without me touching the phone

 

[Rallye James]

you know if it will be compatible with s voice or whatever hands free calling app the phone will have? For example, is there a way for me today call aunt Jane, and the phone call her without me touching the phone

I doubt it, given that to use S Voice, you still need to touch the phone (it's biggest flaw IMO). It does look like it should sync your phonebook to the headunit to call that way though.

 

[Crafty]

you know if it will be compatible with s voice or whatever hands free calling app the phone will have? For example, is there a way for me today call aunt Jane, and the phone call her without me touching the phone

That belkin thing? No.

Nothing to do with voice control really, its just an input to the head unit so you can get audio (voice & music) to the head unit in the car.

The best you could do is enable the double tap on the home button for S Voice and put the phone in a cradle/holder thing.

A parrot may be better for you, but you'd still have to tap a couple of buttons on the parrot controller to make it work.

 

[wjcorner]

I doubt it, given that to use S Voice, you still need to touch the phone (it's biggest flaw IMO). It does look like it should sync your phonebook to the headunit to call that way though.

Ok...well having the physical button will make it easy to double tap it while having my eyes on the road, so no biggie. Wish they had a USB insert instead of aux though...probably stick to my USB stick for music and use that for phone calls.