I was thinking of trying to disassemble an iphone headphone adapter (not the belkin one, as it seems to lack a headphone out) and solder in a switch, then seal the whole thing up with some heatshrink tubing and attach it permanently to my tape adapter.
Unfortunately, I swore I saw an adapter that had the headphone out ring on it, but am not coming across it on my normal blogs. Anyone else remember this or am I just nuts?
Just get a DLO iJet and strap it to your steering wheel with a peice of velcro. It works fine with the iPhone, just be sure to plug it in FIRST and plug in the headphone jack SECOND, otherwise the iPhone will think that you have a speaker pluged into the dock connector and will pipe the audio out the dock rather than the headphone jack, sending you into hours of madness trying to fix it. Also make sure it is actually working before you take off, nothing worse than trying to unplug and replug the thing while driving. If the audio doesn't work, just unplug and replug the headphone jack to tell the iphone that you really do indeed want it to use the headphone jack.
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We seriously need a control of some sort, especially for in the car. that touch screen is too hard to use when you're in traffic
Man, I totally agree.
I was thinking of trying to disassemble an iphone headphone adapter (not the belkin one, as it seems to lack a headphone out) and solder in a switch, then seal the whole thing up with some heatshrink tubing and attach it permanently to my tape adapter.
Unfortunately, I swore I saw an adapter that had the headphone out ring on it, but am not coming across it on my normal blogs. Anyone else remember this or am I just nuts?
Just get a DLO iJet and strap it to your steering wheel with a peice of velcro. It works fine with the iPhone, just be sure to plug it in FIRST and plug in the headphone jack SECOND, otherwise the iPhone will think that you have a speaker pluged into the dock connector and will pipe the audio out the dock rather than the headphone jack, sending you into hours of madness trying to fix it. Also make sure it is actually working before you take off, nothing worse than trying to unplug and replug the thing while driving. If the audio doesn't work, just unplug and replug the headphone jack to tell the iphone that you really do indeed want it to use the headphone jack.
http://www.theistore.com/ijetdock.html
Or better yet, since it comes with a steering wheel mounting kit:
http://sewelldirect.com/Scosche-iPod-Wireless-RF-Car-Remote.asp