Hi everyone, another newbie joining the group. I am very interested in this plug and play unit, so I have been doing all the research that I can. I have read every single posting in this thread. It is beginning to sound like the plug and play part is fictional, given the postings about dash trimming and wire extensions, and gps not working, antenna's not working, chinese characters on the ipod functions and so on...Do you think there are quality issues here, or is it inexperience with the product? There was enough positives that I still want the unit, but I don't think I want the problems of installing myself? Does anyone know where I could have this unit installed in Toronto?

This is not a perfect unit but good enough for its value. I am not aware of any GPS or antennas not working. I sold a few in Toronto, most of them installed it them self. I will see if I find the guy that had it installed by somebody else.

Thanks

I'm looking at grabbing one of these as I await for the local auctions here to end. I have nice

Can anyone post up a vid of how either the hualingan or dynavin work with the iPhone 4? I want to know about pandora, bt phone calls, what happens when you get a SMS and anything else you can tell me. Thanks.

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What is DSP? How would I know if a car had it?

Even though I do test every single unit before I ship it out this particular problem was tricky. The unit was working perfect for about 5 minutes and then ran into the problems above.
To use the OEM mic is not possible. The OEM mic is sophisticated and designed to work only with the OEM components controlled on iBus.

On your MID you have an AUDIO button. If this button has also a label DSP then you have DSP. If you have only AUDIO or you don't see anywhere DSP then you don't have it.

Fmugur, any idea if a new/updated version of the Hualingan is coming out soon? I really want to buy one, but after reading some of the issues here (especially the crappy Nav) I feel like I should wait a bit till all the bugs are out.

I think you are referring to the model that would fit on e38.
I was told that they didn't bring enough revenue with e39 model to support the R&D to finish the e38 project and the market is not as big as the e39 or e53.
They released the e39/e53 model only 6 month ago and the first shipping was in Sept/October. So, it's pretty new.
So, as far as I know now there is nothing new coming out for e39 or x5. e90 is next on their plate.

Not sure, though what you mean with the crappy NAV. You can install any mapping sw you wish that works on win CE. The unit comes with iGo which I find it very good with a lot of features.