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what's up guys is antoine goodwood cnet.com we're on the floor in Alpine's visit CES 2013 taking a look at the Alpine ICF x7 HD has a pretty interesting interface as everything that's being rendered by it right now is coming off with a samsung galaxy s3 phone next to it head unit uses what's called mirrorlink it's an app mirroring two-way communications profile that allows you to pretty much anything that shows on your phone shows up on the indebt screen that you've got here so we've got full touch control we can see our music if any music were on this phone we can also pop over into location and get navigation now again the whole interface is provided by the Samsung Galaxy s3 phone that's next to it so your mileage may vary depending on what apps through on your phone it also does a lot of other interesting things that's just your standard Bluetooth audio streaming your standard HD radio reception it also is compatible with iPhone and iPod and if you have apps on those phones such as Pandora or a high radio you also get integration there this is a $599 unit it's a 7-inch display and it is necklace there's no CD player behind this it's pretty much just the screen designed to work with your phone so it's a really interesting head unit for smartphone users I've been an Swan good in which the Netcom we're on the floor at CES 2013 and this has been the Alpine ICS x7 HD