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Message: [QUOTE="TrickTruck, post: 1557546, member: 6044"] I really like this thing. We did 600mi last week w/ the RV and we used the PX6 exclusively for navigation and music. Love the voice entry (sync3 drove me nutz). We got back and went to dinner in Wifey's Expy and it was shocking how bad sync3 is in comparison. It does not have it's own data connection. This has advantages and disadvantages. The Phoenix one is advertised with a 4G modem, but I have no idea if that's AT&T, Sprint, Vzw, or what. Also the discontinuation of 3G brings up the specter of what happens when they discontinue 4G in the future, is your stereo unusable then? Also, Phoenix has no pics or info for an install w/ the hump dash. When I emailed them they didn't even know what I was talking about. Even with a picture...idk if they actually have a product for the '13-'16 dash. I'm not sure they know. I was not crazy about using phone hotspot. My phone either kills the battery when hotspot is on or is auto hotspot off. So every time I get in the truck I have to pull out my phone, enable hotspot and wait a min or so for it to connect. When I got home I dug my old usb 4G modem out of a bag and hooked it up. I like this method a lot better as it auto connects when I fire up the truck. If the truck has been off for a while the modem will have to boot up, but that's pretty quick too. I contacted Vzw this morning and got the skinny on the latest 5G hotspot modems. I don't seem to need it though as I can stream movies via 4G, listen to music, surf the web, so, for now, I'm pretty set on my connection. PX6 has a few bugs, but nothing that's stopping the show. There's about a hundred settings in the install set that I got into and did some tweaking. Also there's a guy in Russia that writes some custom firmware for it. Due to FJB's criminal violations of laws he can't accept payments now, but when that's resolved I'll probably buy his firmware. Longer I have it, more I tweak it, more I like it. [/QUOTE]