I do like it. It is fully integrated. It gives full control through the deck. I ran the cable into the glove box and the ipod just goes in to charge. It will access folders and playlists. You can even upload your own screensavers or pictures to the radio. As for ease of use, it was plug and play, period. I think they did a lot of things right.

Before I pulled my Nav radio I took some shots of the CHRYSLER startup screen, and I planned to make that into a screensaver where it morphed into CROSSFIRE and then SRT6. I haven't gotten around to it yet.

There are a few things I would change- Even when you're shuffling, telling it to skip to the next track does just that- it goes to the next track. I would prefer it pick another at random. Pure preference.

I also don't like that there's no hard key for pause. Pause is buried under a few menus like the bevy of other options. I don't need to pause much, but to do so you have to take your eyes off the road. However, if you pause often, it does default to the last thing you did so it would be just 2 button presses I think. Maybe 3. A somewhat minor annoyance.

I really enjoyed the steering wheel controls of my Acura before I bought this car, so I wanted that option. I bought a Pioneer compatible remote for the steering wheel- it comes with a capable remote, but it doesn't mount. However, it chirps whenever you do anything with any remote. Very annoying since it will chirp for every step up and down of volume. It doesn't do that when you turn the ****. Maybe there's a way to disable that, but I don't know. I was also a little cheesed that the remote also didn't have a pause button.

All in all, a very fine radio. I would buy one again. I did get mine off eBay for much less than list price and self installed. It took far longer to route the bluetooth mike wire than installing the rest of the stereo, and I'm no pro. The iPod module is under the radio, behind the button panel- there's plenty of room for that or a satellite radio module.