Since this thread is dead-ish lately, I figured I would drop a line about Pioneer's new F-series line up of double din head units. We had sold a ton of the AVIC-D3's over the last two years (and many to TR members also) but the new AVIC F700BT's and F900BT's are just incredible for the money. The screen is a little smaller but it fits great with the package. They have updated the screen pixels and the screen is sharper and cleaner than ever (although JVC was using this resolution a year ago).
The F700bt is a great cheap alternative for those that want a nice name-brand head unit with navigation but don't care to play a DVD up front. The coolest thing about it is that you can just hook up your iPod (the cable is still optional though for another $45 which I think is a little lame), and watch video on the screen through it! the F900bt has a little more interesting 3-D display that shows animated renderings of big buildings and such (this is bad-ass). It also has the DVD player built-in. Both units finally overcame the complaints of not being able to navigate by and play a CD/DVD at the same time by moving the maps to the flash card drive. Simple yet effective. We just got them in on Friday and installed a few for a couple of customers and some dealerships and everyone is going crazy over them for the price.
They also have the blue tooth built in (much easier to install now and better/faster connecting to the three phones that I have paired them with so far). For the first time, they have "conversational voice recognition" so you don't have to say "play" or "stop". You can say like "Play Black Eyed Peas" or "call work (girlfriend, John, etc)". Worked pretty well as far as I can see so far.
If you have been waiting to upgrade to a double din navigation system for a while, these new f-series from Pioneer should really be in your comparison shopping.
They even look so nice in the dash that we have two new car dealer accounts getting them preloaded into their showroom units! I have NEVER had any dealer request a system preloaded into stock units-these pieces are simply NICE!
Pioneer USA - In-Dash Navigation
One of my guys bought the F900BT to install in his SuperDuty tomorrow so we will be getting a ton of real world experience over the next couple of weeks.
And last but not least, they are completely and easily by-passable!