Friday, September 12, 2003 |
16:07 - Pods Untie
http://www.thinksecret.com/news/tsnotes5.html
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Wow! Check out this bandwagon. Hot on the heels of VW's Pods Unite campaign, where they sell you an iPod and matching tape-adapter-based kit with your New Beetle, comes an offer that one-ups it quite neatly: Smart, the French city-car maker, is integrating iPods into their cars, and rather artfully at that.
Apparently this is being done in multiple Smart models, because these pictures show a different kind of console and mounting system than the one above (the MacBidouille site has photos of the iPod being mounted in a little shelf, with an attached radio transmitter, whereas the image above shows a more integrated cradle with audio connected to an auxiliary input port, a bottom-side connector-- so you can read the display properly, how 'bout that-- and power coming straight from the car). More pictures (and a nice close-up) are here.
The big question: whether an iPod or XM Radio will be the audio geek-toy of choice over the coming automotive year?
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