Has anybody any experience of the Harman + Kardon Drive 'n Play?
Quite like the look of this and it is pretty cheap now that they have brought the new version out.
CM
Yes mate, I have one and its superb. It was a bit flaky with my original (1.3 I think) jail break firmware, but since upgrading to v2 and subsequently v3 firmware its been brilliant. Build quality is excellent and to be honest well exceeds the £20 that I paid for mine (SVP.co.uk, but I don't think that they have them any more).
I have the display fixed to the inside of the left hand centre console bar, and the controller just to the left of the steering wheel. All the wires except the power are nicely hidden away. Bear in mind that you need an aux in for best results.
If you don't have an aux in, they can come with 2 flavours of FM modulator either a wireless FM one that your radio will pick up or a hard wired one that plugs into the aerial socket on the back of the HU - usually one or the other so make sure that you buy the one that suits your needs best. I can't comment on the quality of either of these connections as I use the aux in.
The main box (the brains) is located under my seat and has an aux in (3.5mm) for connecting a satnav, in car TV, etc.
It picks up all the playlists / albums etc on my iphone and is much much safer to control whilst driving than using the iphone directly. As the controls are very intuitive, I'd suggest (imho) that it is probably the safest method of controlling an ipod there is. Simply twist the dial left or right to scroll through playlists / tracks / albums, centre button to select.
The only slight concern that I have is that the display does slightly resemble a small crappy satnav, and therefore could be a potential thieve magnet. I understand the the ver 2 drive + play has a removable display but that costs $200 so its a bit out of my price range.
Thoroughly recommended to anyone - in fact since seeing mine, several of my mates have bought them, including one that used to use an icelink.
Another bonus is that you can take it with you when you sell the car without having to purchase new leads etc.