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Pioneer AVIC-F10BT

By Derek Fung on 02 September 2009

Pioneer's top-of-the-range in-dash navigation unit, the F10BT features a 7-inch touchscreen, movie playback including DivX, Bluetooth hands-free, USB connectivity and iPod support, as well as sat nav with text-to-speech, 3D view and traffic messaging.

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Pioneer AVIC-F10BT Derek Fung 2nd Sep 2009 Pioneer's top-of-the-range in-dash navigation unit, the F10BT features a 7-inch touchscreen, movie playback including DivX, Bluetooth hands-free, USB connectivity and iPod support, as well as sat nav with text-to-speech, 3D view and traffic messaging. Pioneer GPS Pioneer AVIC-F10BT Pioneer's top-of-the-range in-dash navigation unit, the F10BT features a 7-inch touchscreen, movie playback including DivX, Bluetooth hands-free, USB connectivity and iPod support, as well as sat nav with text-to-speech, 3D view and traffic messaging.

• Specs: GPS navigation device • 7 inch • Yes • See more specifications
• RRP: AU$2,999.00

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  turbo gave a review on 27/09/2009 23:10 Report abuse

  Also, failed to mention that you can pick any colour for the buttons you like (mix of RGB) so you can match the instrumentation on the car. Quite handy to give it a good look with the rest of your gear.
  
  Reverse camera works a treat also (you don't need to use a Pioneer camera), and the ability to run a separate video feed to rear monitors simultaneously with the NAV running up-front is good too.
  
  Menus take a bit of getting used to (especially setup options), but there are a good deal of audio configurations / DSP settings you can apply which will get some quite nice sound out of it. Have yet to play in detail, but there are plenty of options there. Would suggest that "audio lover" in previous post has a play with the settings before making a throw-away line like that.

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  turbo gave 8/10 on 27/09/2009 23:01 Report abuse

  • Good: responsive, lots of features, great iPod integration, good bluetooth
  • Bad: no voice recognition like US & EU versions, no RDS for normal radio, price

  It's biggest problems are the fact that the Australian version (unlike the US and EU version) has completely disabled all voice recognition functions.
  
  Also, the RDS functions are omitted for the radio stations, despite the fact that it has the RDS-TMS tuner for the SUNA traffic service.
  
  Works great with iPhone also.
  
  Seems like we get a crippled version compared the the rest of the world, for no real obvious reasons.
  
  Only other annoying thing is the fact that the SDHC is limited to 16Gb cards, as is the USB flash disk reader/cable. Max of 2500 songs on these two mediums also. Cannot play DivX videos from the SD/USB (must be on a DVD/CD). These weird "mix & match" encodings depending on the media don't reall make sense and are annoying.
  
  Also, for the 800x480 res (which is nice), videos can only be encoded to a max of PAL resolution, which is again strange given the extra res avaialble on the screen.
  
  iPod integration is very slick and easy to use. Have tried with both iPod Touch 16Gb and iPhone 3GS (32Gb) and works great.
  
  Also has a cool iPhone app (search AppStore for AVIC FEEDS) that allows you to take photos and add links to your NAV destinations.
  
  SUNA traffic updates are plentiful and quite useful, although I did have a few quirks when the flashing road warning lines did not overlay precisely on the actual road.
  
  "Zoomed in" view when approaching a turn instruction are great and very useful, as is the "motorway exit" view, showing which lane to be in.
  
  Annoying text to speech verbiage eg. "Turn left on the S42/S52 FOOTE ST", when it should really not read out the road numbers. A side-effect perhaps of the Whereis database, although my previous GPS (Navman S90i) did not have this problem reading the street name but not using the road number. Also very annoying use of the word "the" as above when there is no road number (eg. "Turn left on to the OAKHILL AVE")
  
  Overall, multimedia functions are great, with the GLARING OMISSION of the Voice Recognition functions which everybody else on the planet gets, and strange omission of RDS on the radio when the unit actually has an RDS tuner built in to it.

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  audio lover gave 1/10 on 27/09/2009 18:40 Report abuse

  • Bad: the sound is like ****!

  the sound reproduction is not good. sound is not clear as i am expecting.

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  pioneer gave 1/10 on 27/09/2009 18:38 Report abuse

  • Bad: not much function in the avicf10bt

  compare to other head unit, i would not recommend someone to buy it. it's not worth for money buying.

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  DVSTA8 gave a review on 03/09/2009 11:32 Report abuse

  Derek, a review would be nice not an internet press kit?

 

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