Product Description
Car stereo
| List Price: | $129.99 |
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Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #3134 in Car Audio or Theater
- Brand: JVC
- Model: KD-R730BT
- Dimensions: 10.80" h x 4.50" w x 9.70" l, 4.00 pounds
Features
- JVC-APP
- BLACKBERRY PLAYBACK
- USB
Customer Reviews
Most helpful customer reviews
34 of 35 people found the following review helpful.
By hilong08
The deck works very well with my cell phone (Samsung Galaxy Nexus LTE).
The deck's external microphone can pick all my commands to the phone. Everyone I called can actually hear me. (versus just using the cell phones mic @ high speeds)
Google Music, Navigation, and Pandora worked phenomenally. I can now control the phone's playback feature through the deck.
Turn on the car > Deck looks for your synced phone > Connects > Starts Jamming to Tunes from your phone
There are a lot of color schemes to choose as well.
The faceplate is detachable as well. It is a must when you have an old Honda vehicle.
I recommend this deck if:
- You live in a bad neighborhood where a removable faceplate is appreciated
- You use Google Navigation like crazy
- You like Pandora, or Music in general
- You like to talk in the car
- You use voice recognition like crazy to navigate your self to a destination
If you are an iPhone user, you'll like this deck as well since you'll enjoy all the same features an Android phone offers with this deck.
12 of 12 people found the following review helpful.
By John G. Pollard
This is a solidly built unit. It feels well made. It has lots of tricks!
First - the installation
The installation took me about 1.5 hours total which included the removal of the previous am/fm/cd player. I installed this unit into a Ford E-150 van.
One problem - I didn't think ahead to make sure that I got a vehicle specific wiring harness or a wiring harness adaper , but in retrospect it would not have done me that much good. My van already had the original unit replaced so I was adapting to an adapter that was already there. All the wires were color coded and it was a simple matter of snipping and stripping wires and then splicing them back together with electrical tape and small wire nuts. Once this was finished the unit played perfectly.
I have a Samsung Galaxy note and I synced the phone with the blue tooth adapter supplied with the unit and it worked like a charm.
The unit does have 2 USB ports, but one is on the front of the unit and one is at the rear of the unit.
I had installed the Pandora app on my phone and when I started the app on my phone I was easlily able to have Pandora sync with the JVC unit - sweet!
I then then removed the SD card from my Galaxy note, inserted it into a Transcend SD to USB adapter and plugged it into the front of the unit - the card was quickly read and played flawlessly.
Curious about what the unit might also do , I attached an old Arcos 402 hard disk based music player/ camera/ camcorder to the unit - it located my music and commenced playing.
I then attached a standard USB hard drive. After a search it located the music files (the drive was 500 GB) and played them with a few bumps her (some of the songs produced a file error.
The hard drive files found resided on a FAT32 partition - I have no idea if the unit will read NT file system.
Needless to say , but - nearly any modern MP3 player play through this unit.
I haven't had a chance to use my phone with the unit, but whenever I do I will update this review.
As far as features and value I would rate the unit an easy 9 out of 10. The installation was fairly simple.
I am very pleased with the units and consider it to be a great value.
My van will no longer be home to hundreds of CD's!
I will likely listen to most of my music via the SD-USB adapter and use my Galaxy note when I want to listen to Pandora (unless I want to cache Pandora to the SD card)
I would recommend this unit to anyone looking to update their equipment.
Added 15 August 2012
Months after the original purchase I am still very pleased with the unit and it's performance.
11 of 13 people found the following review helpful.
By climbr
I just bought this as my first ever aftermarket upgrade, and I'm loving it!
I like projects, so I decided to install it myself, and I'm so glad that I did. If you are on the fence about self-installation, here are a few tips (and I'm a 26-yr-old woman, so ladies, you can do this too!):
Before You Begin
The hardest part for me about self-installation was making sure I had all of the right parts and tools. In addition to your new stereo, you will also need:
1. A wiring harness specific to your car's model/year.
2. A dash install kit specific to your car's model/year.
3. A Phillip's head screwdriver.
4. A socket wrench (most likely with an extension rod to reach back far enough in your dash) with a 3/8 inch hex head.
5. Electrical tape.
6. Wire stripper.
7. Something to pry out your dash pieces (preferably a plastic pry tool, but I used a very small flathead screwdriver).
8. A small wrench to disconnect your battery's negative terminal.
Taking Out the Old Stereo (the Hard Part)
1. Disconnect the negative terminal on your car battery (just need a smallish wrench to do this). This prevents you from short-circuiting your stereo as you install.
2. Pry out the faceplates around your center console (usually only one screw is necessary, located under one of your air control knobs).
3. Unscrew the housing that is holding your current stereo to your dash (four hex nuts, which require a socket wrench).
4. Pull out old radio housing.
5. Pop out faceplate that holds your air vents around old radio housing.
6. Disconnect wiring harness from old radio.
Installation of the New Stereo (the Easy Part);
1. Splice wires from new stereo to new wiring harness (you'll need one that is specific to your car model/year). Cover spliced wires with electrical tape or solder together.
2. Feed microphone through dash space to underneath the steering wheel housing (much easier than it sounds--there is a microphone-sized space running all around your steering wheel housing that will let you fish it out so that the mic can be placed on top of the housing to pick up your voice).
3. Attach your dash install kit pieces to your new stereo (this is also specific to your car's make/model/year, and is what allows your stereo to fit in seamlessly with your dash).
4. Attach your new wiring harness to your car's wiring harness.
5. Attach your car's antenna cable to the back of your new stereo.
6. Slide in stereo to its spot in the dash.
7. Tighten those 4 hex nuts back in place to hold the stereo housing (just cram all of the stereo wires back behind the stereo in the dash).
8. Pop all those dash pieces back in place in reverse order (top to bottom).
9. Reconnect your negative battery terminal.
There are several video tutorials on youtube that show this process in every detail--this stereo is really worth it, and after parts, you can save $50-75 in labor by doing it yourself.
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