When I bought my car it wasn’t long before I started researching possible connectivity options for my iPod. I was directed to the Trollpod by a member of one of the boards I was on. It was in development at the time, so I browsed around a bit, signed up for the mailing list, and promptly forgot about it.
Last week I got an email from the dude saying that he was planning to start shipping in August and the Trollpod is now available for pre-orders. I’m still trying to get some more information before I make the decision but it sounds pretty promising. It’s basically a small adapter that lets the iPod plug into the CD changer port on the back of the Saab’s factory head unit. I’m not sure if it lets you control the iPod through the radio controls (which would be cool) but it at least provides a line-level input and charges the iPod.
The Trollpod will sell for $150 and works with early 9-3’s (when they were still cool) and most 9-5’s. Like I said, I’m not planning on buying one right now, but I am quite interested in seeing how well they work.
On a slightly related note, hopefully I’ll have my car back soon so I can finish another project.
jb said:
not sure if this applies to the trollpod or not as i’m not really sure how it works, but make sure you find out how fast it can scroll through music. i have this and one of these and while the they work great together, for whatever reason, it takes a loooooong time to scroll through your music. i’m not sure what it is but i’ve read about it on many message boards. so as i was saying, i’m not sure that the trollpod would suffer from this or not, it is definately worth finding out about if your collection of music is fairly large.
18:56 on 03 Jul 2006
matches said:
That’s disappointing. Alpine was on my list if I ended up with a car that had a normal-sized head unit. I will keep that in mind though, thanks.
20:42 on 03 Jul 2006