i got an i-pod nano and i just put it up in my cell phone holder, went out and spent $35 for the upgrade for my Blapunkt headunit to get RCA's in, bought a set of RCA cabels with a headphone jack built in on the other end, cut a hole in the little tray beside the cig lighter, and just pull the cord out when i need to and put it back in. Sounds great, cost me $50 for every thing i needed to hook up.

u could use headphone jacked rca's and then the cig lighter recharger for the nano. then you'll have playability and charge?

I have a Kenwood Excelon deck, with the ipod cable ($30). The one thing I don't like is that its kinda laggy through the deck. It's easier for me to unplug the ipod, pick a different artist/playlist and plug it back in. I think alpine has the full speed navigation stuff.