I guess I didn't realize you needed to interact with the phone directly? My assumption was charging and playing music. The biggest problem with majority of the third party devices that allow you to operate iPods, etc.(from the deck) is lack of intuitive controls for thousands of music files. The other problem is when people get picky about how it operates
Anyways, good luck with all that. The idea I would have proposed fails if you need to use it while driving. Btw, majority of those newer decks connect through the back.
