01-09-2009, 12:38 PM
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Alpine's first touchscreen digital media receiver
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The Alpine iXA-W404 takes the fantastic interface of Alpine's line of digital media receivers, stretches it vertically, and adds a new feature: a touchscreen.
Now, users are able to use the lightning fast double-encoder knob or by lightly dragging and tapping the 4.3-inch QVGA color touch-screen monitor. The interface, more or less, apes Apple's coverflow, so users of iPods and iTunes should find it familiar.
The unit, like all of Alpine's digital media receivers, features a full speed USB connection that's optimized for iPod, which you'll be getting a great deal of mileage out of due to the iXA-W404's lack of an optical drive.
Bluetooth handsfree, HD Radio with iTunes tagging, and satellite radio add on modules are available, as is Alpine's IMPRINT digital audio processing module. Final pricing for the unit is still up in the air.
In other news, Alpine has also released its iDA-X305, which is for all intents and purposes identical to the current iDA-X303 with the exception of an updated aesthetic, five more watts of max power (now 50 watt x 4 channels), and a "Works with iPhone" sticker on the box, which is interesting because if we're not mistaken the previous iDA-X303 and iDA-X100 already unofficially support the iPhone.
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