I have a Phatnoise Phatbox in my Audi A4. The primary advantage of the Phatbox is that in supported cars it integrates directly into the factory stereo so no rip-out and replace is needed. Your car still has a stock "factory" appearance and all navigation is done via TTS voice tags through the factory controls.
The main beef that I have with Phatnoise is that they refuse to allow users to upgrade the hard disk in their DMS cartridge going so far as to re-write data in the hard drive with an encrypted key, preventing any user from doing their own upgrades. They charge something like $400 for an 80GB DMS which is ridiculous IMO. The unit does work well though, I've had mine since the product was originally released 3.5 yrs ago and it's worked great. Their music management software leaves a lot to be desired but once you have the bulk of your music loaded very little needs to be done anyways. -- jmpage2 _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
