iPhone OS 4.0’s iPod Out Functionality Meant For Car Stereos

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iPhone OS 4.0’s new iPod Out functionality didn’t get a lot of attention when it was briefly shown at last week’s event, but TUAW has posted a good overview of what to expect, along with the informative video above, which prominently features the horftastic caterwauling of country singing nightmare Wynonna.

iPod Out is a new application that displays a simplified, iPod Classic like interface for controlling music playback, with the menu system piped to the display of a car stereo system, which could not only handle the iPhone’s audio but support hands-free integration.

TUAW only mentioned stereos, but obviously, as long as the connector required isn’t to esoteric, this could potentially be used when hooking the iPhone up to a television as well. The only problem with the latter theory is the current lack of support for video in iPod Out, but that feature may simply be MIA until the official unveiling of the next iPhone model, which will hopefully be able to output video through HDMI.

John Brownlee

John Brownlee is a writer for Fast Company, and a contributing writer here at CoM. He has also written for Wired, Playboy, Boing Boing, Popular Mechanics, VentureBeat, and Gizmodo. He lives in Boston with his wife and two parakeets. You can follow him here on Twitter.