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CES 2015: Kenwood and Pioneer Announce Aftermarket Receivers With CarPlay Integration

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Apple's CarPlay technology continues its expansion with both Kenwood and Pioneer announcing new CarPlay receivers at CES 2015. Kenwood and Pioneer's releases follow earlier CarPlay announcements from automobile manufacturer Volkswagen and car audio accessory maker Parrot.

Following statements from early last year that it was "looking at" CarPlay, Kenwood today announced its first car audio receiver that includes Apple's CarPlay technology. For iOS owners, the DDX9902S features Siri integration that allows the driver to respond to messages, control music playback, and access Apple Maps for navigation.

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Other receiver features include the ability to add an optional rear view camera, support for a SiriusXM tuner, and compatibility with factory steering wheel audio controls. In order to appeal to a wide range of smartphone owners, the touchscreen-enabled DDX9902S also offers support for Android Auto. Pricing and availability for the DDX9902S are not yet available.

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While Kenwood is preparing its first CarPlay receiver, early adopter Pioneer today announced its second-generation Networked Entertainment eXperience (NEX) in-dash receivers with CarPlay support. All five models feature Bluetooth connectivity and are Sirius XM-Ready, with the top of the line model carrying a capacitive WXGA display while the remaining member of the family offer resistive displays.

The new receivers will be available starting in March with list pricing starting at $700 for the AVH-4100NEX. Other models include the AVIC-8100NEX ($1,400 SRP), AVIC-7100NEX ($1,200 SRP), AVIC-6100NEX ($900 SRP), and AVIC-5100NEX ($750 SRP).


Article Link: CES 2015: Kenwood and Pioneer Announce Aftermarket Receivers With CarPlay Integration
 
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AVH-4100NEX Is a bad link.

I'm getting pretty excited. For me, there really hasn't been a reason to upgrade head units in most cars for about a decade (if you get the premium sound package). If this years are as good as they seem, I might break down and buy one.
 
Z400Racer37 said:
I'm boycotting anything that supports Android on principle lol.

#GoinThermonuclear
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Cellular companies support Android and so does Samsung, who manufactures components for Apple. Go for the Windows or Blackberrys.
 
I currently have an AVIC-5000NEX. Carplay is meh at best on it. Maps crashes the system most times, so I avoid using it. Looking at the units from a face-value aspect, I'm not seeing much of a difference.
 
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Check out that ugly top level nav. Maybe eventually these things will boot right into CarPlay and skip the custom interface.
 
Jakexb said:
Check out that ugly top level nav. Maybe eventually these things will boot right into CarPlay and skip the custom interface.
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Agreed. It's 2015. That skeumorphic, glossy user interface looks old-fashioned compared to today's design trends. That CD icon looks like it's from the stone-age!!!
 
Does anybody know if CarPlay is still only possible with cable, or does it work over Bluetooth now?
 
My god this interface.... It's pretty much showing everything wrong with aftermarket radio interfaces. Damn it's ugly and looks very old...

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nilk said:
What principle is that?
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The not subsidizing or endorsing companies that rip off the IP of other companies principle, and the not buying tech from companies that support platforms that are based on such theft principle.
 
It's 2015 and yet they still use 800x480 7" screens. At $1500, it should at least be full HD. They have been using the same screens for almost a decade.
 
Z400Racer37 said:
The not subsidizing or endorsing companies that rip off the IP of other companies principle, and the not buying tech from companies that support platforms that are based on such theft principle.
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I guess you won't be buying anything supporting Apple products either. For example, Apple's Instant Hotspot feature was copied from a jailbreak developer and Apple went as far as patenting it, which I think is a much bigger offense than merely copying something: https://twitter.com/mariociabarra/status/530840251019694080

If you stuck to this principle of yours, you would have a hard time buying the vast majority of consumer electronics. That's fine and good, but you seemed to be implying that Google ripped off Apple, and I'm guessing you use Apple products (correct me if I'm wrong).
 
2010mini said:
Where would the display go? I don't think flip up single din are popular anymore.
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Make the whole thing a big display with some slim volume buttons on the side. Would be plenty big enough for basic operations and showing nav.
 
Considering how difficult it is to upgrade more and more head units in late model cars, I welcome this option.
 
2010mini said:
Where would the display go? I don't think flip up single din are popular anymore.
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I've got 4 cars that will only support a single DIN. Would love to see flip up options.

awer25 said:
It's 2015 and yet they still use 800x480 7" screens. At $1500, it should at least be full HD. They have been using the same screens for almost a decade.
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ghostface147 said:
Considering how difficult it is to upgrade more and more head units in late model cars, I welcome this option.
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I think these companies are way behind and missing the boat here. They are stuck between the high end of the market and the middle in a bad way.

Many of the cars made in the last 15 years are already prohibitively expensive to change out the factory stereo. Some need expensive adapters to work with the optical wiring or canbus systems, full speaker replacements, custom dash work. Could easily cost $1500 in extras before even buying these units. Not many people will do that on a 5-15 year old car.

Most any car in the last 7-8 years probably already has Bluetooth built in. (And you can buy $100 Bluetooth stereos all day long) Add a $20 phone mount and that is all the integration many people want.

I think they could sell a ton of these if they had ones that were tablet thick and around $200. Hell, you can buy cheap tablets with better screens for half that these days.

This would open up a huge market to the teens-20-30 something's that have older cars and lower budgets, but value their tech and music.
 
nilk said:
I guess you won't be buying anything supporting Apple products either. For example, Apple's Instant Hotspot feature was copied from a jailbreak developer and Apple went as far as patenting it, which I think is a much bigger offense than merely copying something: https://twitter.com/mariociabarra/status/530840251019694080

If you stuck to this principle of yours, you would have a hard time buying the vast majority of consumer electronics. That's fine and good, but you seemed to be implying that Google ripped off Apple, and I'm guessing you use Apple products (correct me if I'm wrong).
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Yeah, they didn't copy that. The setup process is horrible on that, so almost none used it. My friend was tethering to his new phone the other day and didn't even know he wasn't using wifi. That's innovation. Just because Apple let's you hook up to your phone to tether doesn't mean they've copied other peoples stuff. That's like those people who say Apple didn't invent the tablet as we use it today, because somebody else already made touchscreen, so Apple just ripped them off. Thats absurd. Innovations are almost always packages. Nobody used the old tablets because they were an awful package of hardware and software and had no services to speak of. Nobody used the tethering app because it was hard to use, and it required a jailbreak to even access it. None of these things were completed, and Apple copied neither.

I'm pretty busy, so I'm not going to get in a patent infringement spat etc. But suffice to say that there is a stark difference between a company as massive as Apple sometimes, if hardly ever, infringing on a patent from a company, and Google wholesale ripping off the UI of an entire operating system. To the extent that Apple infringes on a valid patent, they should pay damages just like any other company, but to try and defend something as blatant as Google's theft of iOS, particularly in the configuration Samsung was using a few years ago, and to try to liken the two would be pretty absurd. Anyone who is remotely rational and objective could identify this. That'll be the end of that I think.
 
Xtremjeepn said:
I've got 4 cars that will only support a single DIN. Would love to see flip up options.






I think these companies are way behind and missing the boat here. They are stuck between the high end of the market and the middle in a bad way....
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Buy an iPhone 6+... Customer mount it into your DIN location and you'll have a better set up that this.
 
2010mini said:
Buy an iPhone 6+... Customer mount it into your DIN location and you'll have a better set up that this.
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Hitch is exactly why I think these manufacuers are missing the boat here. They need solutions that don't cost more than the original device and do less.


....but the real point of the original comment is that there are still LOTS of cars that only use single din and people that might value a screen. Especially in trucks and vans where a backup camera would be nice.
 
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