PRO:
+ Excellent sound quality, high-power amplifier
+ Good radio reception, fast channel switching
+ Easy CD-free playback
CONTRA:
- Bluetooth connection. I expect that when I go into the car and the car radio anschalte, the car radio automatically connects to the phone in order to use the speakerphone and the BT-music feature. But exactly what does not usually. I have to connect the car radio via the menu manually with your phone. And even that does not always work. Tested with several Nokia phones and more Android smartphones. If Bluetooth streaming, however once, then very good.
- Folder navigation with USB storage devices. Here is navigated by * any * main and sub-folders. Example: Main folder "Phil Collins", which contains 10 subfolder with the respective albums. To get from the main folder "Phil Collins" to the next main folder on the same level, you have to struggle through all subfolders from this site. If you have your entire music collection on USB, which is an unbearable ordeal over time.
- ID3 tags: Track numbers are not included in the order of playback of MP3 files. If you have several MP3s in a folder to be that stubborn after the file name played in alphabetical order - and not according to the track numbers. Thus, for example, audio books must first be absolutely renamed accordingly.
- Does not support special characters and umlauts in IDv3 tags. That should in 2012 - the year of publication of the radio - really be a problem anymore. (Quote manual: "This device can only alphanumeric single-byte characters (can be up to 30 displays for ID3 tags) and the underscore If not.
supported character is displayed "NO SUPPORT". If information contains characters other than ID3 tag information, the audio file may not be reproduced. Depending on the content of the tag information) Ah may not display correctly. "Yes.
- The volume knob gets fast rotations not. So if I, for example, loud music heard and must quickly switch to silent, then I must the volume knob not turn too quickly, because otherwise the volume is only slightly quieter. This is quite annoying in practice.
Conclusion: I would not buy the car radio. It has too many quirks that are known from the early days of MP3 and Bluetooth. Especially the Bluetooth function is one of the main arguments for this model (equivalent models without Bluetooth there are from the same manufacturer for less money) and does not work reliably - and thus ensures unnecessary frustration.
Another pet peeve is poorly implemented folder navigation, which also makes the playback of USB storage devices cumbersome and complicated.
By the way you should be aware of before buying that the display is very small and therefore provides little overview. This I rate not as negative point, since this fact has been known before buying, interferes in practice, more than expected.
By the way ... the included microphone while doing his duties, but is rather clunky, so do not be surprised.
