We’ll be honest: apart from the ridiculous custom cars and the Viliv S7, we pretty much avoided the car audio-oriented North Hall at CES this year — which means we sadly didn’t get any facetime with Blaupunkt’s miRoamer-powered TravelPilot New Jersey 600i internet car stereo. (Apparently double-DIN is big in the Jerz.) The prototype head unit connects to a cellphone over Bluetooth to access the internet, and uses the miRoamer service to stream “tens of thousands” of stations on the service — which the company estimates will consume about 2GB of data a month, so you’d better hope your data plan doesn’t cap you off or charge you for overages. The radio is expected to arrive in the second half of the year for $399, which isn’t bad, but doesn’t do much good for the squares like us who never swap out their car stereos — which is probably why miRoamer is targeting 2010 for placement in OEM head units. One more pic of the single-DIN sized “Hamburg” model after the break.
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