The in dash receiver itself is beautiful. It fit flush within sprint and looks gorgeous. There are just a few buttons on the left hand side. Chances are you'll even do not notice that there are buttons till you look at them closely. They management quantity,
ahead/backward, supply, mute, and power. You'll like having these bodily buttons, especially for quantity and mute. For those who get a phone call or need to hear one thing, you want to have the ability to instantly mute the radio without having to idiot round with a touchscreen. It's totally good to have in sprint receiver that doesn't have 20 buttons throughout it and looks cluttered.
Customization is simple with the radio. You'll be able to choose from several completely different colors, which can change the LED colors on these bodily buttons and on the touchscreen menu buttons, so that it matches your automobile's LED colors. You may as well choose from seven manufacturing unit background screens, three of that are animated videos. The animation on the videos could be very subtle and doesn't distract you. Plus, while you change the LED shade, it really adjustments the colour of the background videos to match it, which is admittedly cool. If you don't love these, you can use your individual image from a CDR or USB drive. The display contains a dimmer choice, so while you flip in your lights, it mechanically dims. This is fairly good, but can also be annoying. You could like to make use of your lights in the course of the day, and while the screen is still readable, it may be exhausting to see. Luckily, you may fully modify the dimmer choices by means of the settings.
The touchscreen may be very simple to navigate and done very well. The menu system is very intuitive and setup rather a lot like a computer. There is a again button and an escape button to get you thru the menus. Seeking by way of a music might be carried out in three ways. You can maintain down the bodily forward/backward buttons on the unit, you can do the identical with the touchscreen ahead/backward buttons, or you should use your finger to slip a progress bar backwards and forwards, the same as you'll do with a video file in your computer or with an IPod. That is nice as a result of a 30 minutes tune can start, and you'll simply press the top of the progress bar with your finger and it'll immediately skip to the tip of the track or no matter place you press on the bar.
It'll scroll precisely like a computer and cease on the actual place you touch. A whole lot of touchscreens would have segments or 5-10 seconds, and cease on whichever section you came close to. But with the AVH-P3100 in dash receiver, it's segmented into 2 second increments, so you can have much more accurate scrolling. This is the one occasion where you'll be able to see the stylus being of any use, however if you have fairly large fingers then have no drawback with the scroll bar.
The principle gripe with the touchscreen navigation is with the up/down scrolling. That is used when navigating radio/satellite stations, track tracks on a CD, or file folders on a USB/IPod. There is no web page up/down function, so if 5 folders are displayed and also you press the down arrow on the scroll bar, or in the event you press anywhere below the current position on the scroll bar, it will move the record down by one, as a substitute of down by five. This can be a main oversight and can have an effect on the way in which you setup your folders. In case you have on folder in your USB lets say eighty subfolders, meaning if you wish to scroll by means of every folder in the list, it's important to press the down button seventy five times. Now you can put your finger on it and easily drag the arrow down to maneuver rapidly, nevertheless it goes kind of quick, and paging by way of the record would be a lot extra convenient. Also, since it solely displays five traces at a time, it means it's important to scroll one time to view all six of your radio presets.
