The ICS-X8 is the world’s first mobile media product to take advantage of the MirrorLink™ standard, making it extremely convenient to use a MirrorLink™ enabled smartphone and its applications in your car. If you own a smartphone that is MirrorLink™ enabled, visit your phone manufacturer’s app store to download the needed software (additional charges may apply) and install it on your phone.
Those great features make it the world’s most advanced mobile information and entertainment centre, with a brilliant interface optimised for smartphones and apps. From sound quality and media support to navigation, everything is first-rate.
To keep you entertained in the future, the ICS-X8 will stay up to date with support for new phones and apps from the Alpine website.
MirrorLink™ is a recently introduced standard for connecting smartphone devices to vehicle-based infotainment systems. It is a cross-industry solution supported by leading automotive manufacturers, system suppliers, consumer electronics manufacturers and handset manufacturers as part of the Car Connectivity Consortium (CCC). MirrorLink™ offers seamless and convenient use of smartphone-based applications such as navigation, music playback and other entertainment and communication apps.
Our new 1.4 software update for ICS-X8 even features MirrorMode for Nokia, allowing the user to fully access and use all applications of a MirrorLink™ enabled Nokia smartphone in the car.
If you own a Samsung Galaxy S3/Note II, download DriveLink from either Samsung Apps or Google Play to use your Galaxy S3/Note II with the ICS-X8. Navigation lets you use your Google maps based navi app on your ICS-X8, while the music app allows you to select and enjoy all you music stored on your phone through your car audio system. The telephone app lets you make hands-free calls and easily browse your phonebook - all via the ICS-X8’s high resolution touch screen. You can even display new messages and have the unit read them to you via text-to-speech technology. Select from many pre-set answers – such as “I am driving” or write your own answer on the ICS-X8’s on-screen keyboard.
If you own a MirrorLink™ enabled Nokia smartphone: Nokia Drive makes navigation free of charge, with always up-to-date maps and full touch control from the App Link Station. High-res maps are stored on the phone, eliminating data costs and the need for permanent connection. Advanced functions include online traffic information, destination search in online and offline modes, 3D views, music/video mute for voice announcements, menus and voice guidance in many languages.
Download and install the new 1.4 software update for the ICS-X8 to enable MirrorMode for Nokia. This allows you to access all your apps installed on your MirrorLink™ enabled Nokia smartphone from the ICS-X8: stay up-to-date with your social network and IMS sites, listen to internet radio through your car speakers, get informed about the weather, use location based services, browse the web, enjoy your photos, read your mails and SMS, and much, much more….
For safety reasons, the ICS-X8 will allow the usage of these apps only while the parking brake is engaged.
The fully customisable home screen provides smartphone-level animations. Controlling functions is smooth and easy via touch, drag and flick operations. Simply choose your favourite app from the homescreen and put it on the favorite app bar for fast access anytime. And everything is crystal clear on the 7” high quality WVGA display.
Alpine gives you the ability to ultrafine tune the sound of your system with an amazing array of functions including 6-Channel Digital Time Correction, 9-Band Parametric EQ, 10 EQ settings, Digital Crossover, MediaXpander, and Subwoofer Level Control and Phase Selection.
The ICS-X8 gives you a choice of two ways to add navigation capabilities. You can connect it to a MirrorLink™ enabled Nokia smartphone to access the Nokia Drive app and make use of the phone’s navigation function right on your ICS-X8 screen. Or if you don’t have a Nokia phone, you can add the NVE-M300P and get many useful navigation functions plus touch-screen control.
Get the most out of your iPhone or iPod by plugging it into one of the dual USB ports. Enjoying your stored music with high sound quality or movies on the large, high resolution display, while the other USB port can be used simulataniously to connect a Nokia phone or USB mass storage device. The ICS-X8 provides iPod Cover Flow and a handy Quick Search function for finding songs, albums, artists and more fast. While you enjoy the music/movies your iPhone/iPod charges automatically.
In addition to the basic benefit of hands-free phone operation, built-in Bluetooth gives you a wide range of very convenient functions. You get Simple Secure Pairing and can pair up to five phones. Enjoy A2DP audio streaming with control that is AVRCP 1.0/1.3/1.4 compatible. Advanced phone features include phonebook sync, alphabetic and percentage phonebook search, 3 favourite numbers preset and a signal strength indicator.
With the ICS-X8 in your car, you have instant access to all the AV media you choose to use. A DVD/CD optical drive is built in, and of course you can connect your iPod, iPhone or Nokia phone to enjoy your stored music and access online music libraries. A USB port lets you plug in USB sticks and hard disks, and allows USB video playback as well as music. DivX, MP3, WMA and AAC playback are possible, and you can also connect a camera, GPS antenna and navi system.