I went the cheaper but riskier ebay route
ebay as well. I do not have the AMI.
Ami is another 500 dollars. I don’t think it makes sense.
You can use your Apple devices with it like an ipod , but I find the sound somewhat shit with ipod stuff.
Using your phone would be convenient in that you always have it but apple phones have no storage on them (oh thank you Steve Jobs, thank you for 32gb total storage and no card slot, thank you sir!) . And putting your phone in the glovebox is a pain in the ass
You can use a 500 gb (or whatever) hard drive in the glovebox. That would be cool. But it’s $500 for Ami + the HD for the privilege.
For me though the rnse2010+ can use 64 GB SDHC x 2…and 128GB is all the music in the world even at 320k.
Even 32gb x 2 is retarded. You’re talking about 7,000 songs at top quality. thats your favourite 400 artists greatest hits. Or your favourite 200 artists entire discography.
Right now I’m listening to every Ricky Gervais/Merchant /Pilkington podcast and radio show of all time (dozens of hours) as well as every Louis ck special (6hrs) and Dave Chappelle special as well as a pile of other comedians HBO specials or CD releases, and it’s all on one 32gb card I loaded it onto, and there’s frankly a TON of space left.
I have one card with all the good music ever made, and then the other card slot I use to dump stuff on now and again. I’m a photographer so I have tons of cards around and maybe that’s why I think it’s so simple?
People still store music on their phones?
Music streaming is so good nowadays and there’s a million apps to stream music. You can listen to anything you want or put on a shuffle mix like pandora, get on some sound cloud, hype machine, spotify, the list goes on and on. I don’t keep music on my phone.
^ RNS-E does not make it easy to stream.
Just use an aux/headphone jack connection. Until a head unit can mirror the phone display with touch, I think aux + phone holder is the easiest and most flexible setup
Or do like I did and retro fit a nexus 7 tablet in the dash. All I have to do is Bluetooth my internet connection and I can do everything except call and text. But that’s a level of custom most people aren’t willing to dive into. Lol.
I am not trying to show my age or anything, but all I really want to be able to do is play the music from my future iPhone 6 or 7 if its out when I get back, maybe play some sweet ass Pandora, and have a nice up to date navigation system. I can handle aux in to do it or even bluetooth. All that and still have the same output to the speakers that the OEM unit has. The 2GB slots and current Navi both suck major dog balls, so anything to get it gone…
I like high quality sound, instant song changes, I want to control it with the steering wheel, and I want to see it displayed on my RNSE screen. I don’t want a ghetto head unit. I don’t want to be illegally fucking with my phone to control the music (distracted driving is the number 1 cause of death on our roads now ahead of speeding, drink drive etc) and yes the grand majority of us don’t give a fuck about panda or spotty. Those services suck cock. I don’t want some weak ass mix from some ghetto advertising riddled music service, nor do I want to pay someone for shit sound. I want to hear from the bands I love. When I want.
Maybe you’re not into music? Your generation has no music. Just garbage manufactured pop princesses singing other people’s shit music. So maybe to that end you’re content with someone else’s music (yes I know you can thumbs up, thumbs down stuff but fuck it. Still not the same.
You’re the same guy going on about apple iTunes and the shit apple format, yes we have different goals ?
I have an RNS-e. Use it with my iphone, I keep my phone in the cupholder or passengers seat, I can view song info on the dash and RNS-e , change songs via steering wheel or nav or iphone. All it takes on the iphone is a double tap of hte home button and then press the upper right hand part of the screen, don’t even have to look up.
Yeah ok. I could come up with a rebuttal but let’s be honest you are just going to argue more shenanigans. Clearly I am a stereotype among a generation with no culture. A simple hipster with no taste for anything. You know me so well. :
I’ll drop it, no sense in arguing with the stubborn.
how do you connect the iPhone to the RNSE?
audiovox kit, it’s called the dice duo 103 avw, it’s like $100 maybe?
sak, are u saying u can get 32gb cards to work in your car? I just bought a bunch of old 2 gig cards off ebay but id love bigger ones. and I totally agree with the steering wheel controls.
my opinion on the nav is meh, ive had worse and ive had better. entering addresses with the dial is fuckin stupid and it looks dated and I have a killer alpine unit layin around from my jetta but I just cant lose all the other things it does well. I also love the card option as well.
I tried an 8 gig card and I couldn’t get any song titles and it loaded super slow. 4s work but a bit slow too. my experience is the 2s are best.
IMHO…I thought I had seen some decent head units out there on the market…Are the other double dins that bad???
No, they’re not bad at all (IMO). They just don’t look OEM and stick out like a sore thumb because the blacks don’t match up quite right.
I am fine with that. I don’t plan on ever selling my RS4. I have been corrupted by the days of shitty Alpine and Pioneer head units that sucked uber bad. I have yet to buy a Double Din unit with a quality Navigation system, the ability to play I phone-pod music, Pandora etc. streaming, and not be toooooo faking much money…
The b7 stopped in 2008, but that rnse head unit continued in the a3 and the r8, so Audi updated it in 2010
Way better screen/graphics, way way faster computation of routes and searches and the ability to read SDHC cards.
Commonly referred to as RNSE 2010+
I would love a head unit that has a touch screen that can mirror my phone
The Kenwood (DNS-7140 from around 2008) in my Subaru kills the RNSE in all areas except stock look and feel, and SW/DNS integration.
However, those are so important that I’ve simply done the RNS-E 2010+ upgrade and called it a day. Not having all those extra features is only a petty annoyance. I’m over it. 
I have one for sale actually its an awesome double din unit. I had it in my jetta its all touch screen and voice command works really well. it has Pandora Bluetooth xm and the navigation is incredible incuding traffic updates with alternate routes. im not sure if u can mirror the phone though.