Ipod compatibility questions

[stealthee]

I have an Alpine CDA 9884 headunit in the Stealth. I've had it for a while now, but just started looking into this.

It came with a cable that will allow you to hook an Ipod directly to it and control it with the headunit buttons. According to the manual it will work with the following Ipods.

4th gen Ipod
5th gen Ipod (It actually states 4th gen or newer Ipod)
Ipod Photo
Ipod Mini
1st gen Ipod Nano
2nd gen Ipod Nano

Its of my assumption that it lists these because they all use the same plug in adaptor and they were the ones available at the time of the release of that headunit. Does anyone know if any of the newer Ipods use the same plug in and would work with this headunit?

I don't know much about the Ipods as I am not an Apple fanboi, but if the Ipod Classic is essentially a new gen regular Ipod that would be awesome. The touch looks cool, but the sheer amount of storage on the classic for the price makes that worth it in itself compared to the touch.

[DocWalt]

They all use the same 30 pin connector. I can't say with 100% certainty that they would work, but 99% sure they would :p

[stealthee]

Ok. Well if worse comes to worse and I would get a new 160GB Classic Ipod and it not work right with the connector cable then I could always get the FM adapter, or even the auxillary adapter and make it work that way.

Thanks Kenny.

[sketch]

i'd guess that any ipod (except for the touch) will be compatible - they all have the (msotly) same firmware (as long as they're up-to-date) and probably respond to the same signals sent from your HU.

let us know how it goes - I'm looking at getting a 160gb ipod classic to use the same way with my pioneer HU.