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KENWOOD DDX790 Anything You Want from Car Multimedia Receiver
Buttons only is old school and we are welcoming touchscreen technology. With 6.95” touchscreen display, KENWOOD DDX790 Double Din allows you to play your fingertip freely to control your entertainments in car. With touchscreen technology, the look of your car would be so modern and stylish. The con could be the screen that mirroring iPhone screen, but the entire look of the multimedia receiver is striking, especially when you set the illumination color of the control button to match your interior color.
You can enjoy almost anything you want from music to video. The multimedia receiver could receive CD and DVD so take your collection anywhere you go. If you have the entertainment on iPod, iPhone, thumb drive, or even external hard drive, the USB connectivity allows you to browse the playlists, songs, artists, albums and then plays the audio you want to hear, including MP3, WMA, and ACC. If you want to listen to the latest news or you want to hear sports, games, and other entertainments from your favorite video, you should not worry since DDX790 is SiriusXM ready. Once you subscribe to Sirius, the radio would be available.
KENWOOD DDX790 - Safety with Hand Free
Driving needs your hands, both of them to keep on the steering wheel. To take a phone call while holding your phone is dangerous because it could disturb your driving and lead you to car accident. Although you can only use one hand to hold the phone and you still have one hand on the steering wheel, it would be hard to maintain balance of the car, especially on the turn. Therefore, this multimedia receiver gives you solution for hand free conversation while driving. DDX790 is equipped with Bluetooth wireless technology, including Bluetooth microphone to connect your phone and control your call with your fingertip. You only need to touch one button to receive a call and you can scroll your phone book and then make a call.
The Bluetooth also allows you to stream music from your mobile devices so you do not need cable to connect your devices and increase safety because you will not be tangled by the cable. For you who have new iPhone model, enjoy easy and efficient Siri voice command with Kenwood’s Siri Digital Control. For optimization, you can place the Bluetooth microphone anywhere you feel it best position inside your car.
KENWOOD DDX790 - Cool Input and Compatibility
The multimedia receiver could be small size but it equipped with various input that allows you to connect many things to it. Rear USB is available for you discretely connect your USB compatible devices, including smartphone and mass storage devices to play music and to charge the device battery. Although a little old school, AV AUX Input is available. For the safety of your driving, especially when you must park the car, input for rear camera is available and the screen will automatically display the rear view image when you reverse your car. If to reach the screen is too far for you, steering wheel input allows you to control your audio playback. However, you need to buy separate adapter for it and may not supported by all vehicle. If you love apps, you will love DDX790 so much since it completed by compatibility to Pandora, Garmin, and Netflix. Of course, you will need smartphone to enjoy it.
From all advantages it gives you, we can conclude DDX790 could be anything you need from a car multimedia receiver. You can enjoy your driving with various entertainment options, you can have safe driving with hand free connection and rear camera input, you will not lost with Garmin GPS, and you can have a beautiful interior with stylish touchscreen display. Although DDX790b is not perfect, the advantages could win your heart.