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Early Apple CarPlay Reviews Cite Ease of Use, Excellent Siri Voice Integration
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Having an 8000nex carplay is pretty pointless for me. If I want to listen to siriusxm I have to leave carplay and go to nex. I love seeing album art (its why I use a cable instead of bluetooth) carplay has a barley there cover behind the controls. Pioneers maps aren't all that great but they control better than apples at this point on the touch screen. You can pinch to zoom and slide around like you would on a phone with nex. With apple you have to press the + and - buttons. I don't know. I was excited about it. But its just not as cool as I expected.
I've got an 8000NEX and an iPhone 6. CarPlay is amazing! I already loved the 8000NEX because of its fluid interface (unlike most car stereos), but the update has made the Pioneer's interface even more fluid, and on top of that CarPlay runs so smooth it's crazy. It even, without nearly any lag, executes iOS-like animations when switching between stuff. My only complaint so far is that I would like settings for CarPlay. I want to be able to change stuff. For example, phone calls are so bad. It was so much better when using bluetooth. I could have the NEX OS play the call through all my car speakers, and the quality was good. With CarPlay, the phone call quality is tinny and icky, and only plays through the driver corner of the car speaker. Apple needs to improve phone call quality and also give me the option to play through all speakers. Besides phone calls being no good, everything else is awesome.
Oh... and I'm excited about navigation with Apple Maps because of voice control. Being able to ask Siri to navigate to a place without having to touch the screen and having Apple Maps open and automatically start navigation is awesome!
Oh... and I'm excited about navigation with Apple Maps because of voice control. Being able to ask Siri to navigate to a place without having to touch the screen and having Apple Maps open and automatically start navigation is awesome!
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Not all of them do. My 4000NEX does not.
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Upgraded my 4000NEX yesterday.
For those who have upgraded too, have you seen an issue where you cannot access music playlists that are stored / organized in folders? I can see the folders but when I tap on one of them it does not do anything.
Just like with cellular coverage, this is completely subjective depending on where you are in the world.
I love Apple Maps. So much easier to read than Google and there's no incentive for Apple to track me!
Apple will release their own car stereo system that allows you to dock a 6 or 6 plus and get CarPlay.
The price? $1,000!!!
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or distracted drivers who crash because of texting
The price? $1,000!!!
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Because there aren't already millions of cars on the road with in-dash screens.
or distracted drivers who crash because of texting
If you factory head unit has a standard 2 DIN size, than yes, you can install it. You can either leave the factory speakers (yes, the Pioneer is compatible with your OEM speakers) or change to something better, its a half an hour job.
How is it Apple's fault you chose to use Amazon Music? Apple has made it possible for third parties to enable CarPlay. What more could you possible ask? Geez, maybe next time consider that Amazon isn't likely to have stuff like this available on day one. Amazon isn't a hardware company and it shows in their products.
Yea thats splicing. I'm talking about plug and play.
It's not misleading at all. Circuit City used to sell adapters that were plug and play from radio to factory harness. No splicing/soldering/cutting at any point.
I searched for it not too long ago and I couldn't find it anywhere but if you know where its still sold then sing out.
Choosing music or interacting with a navigation system via touch control is no different, so why would this be? It's totally legal.
Some pretty first world complaints there (retina twice, e.g.)... ...you're not going to be watching videos or reviewing your photo albums while driving after all...
Sheesh, what's a "mixed OS family" to do if some have iPhones and some Androids....??
As in seriously, what (if no one wants to change their ecosystem)...??
I can just see the first divorce case on grounds of "incompatibility"....
Ok I know what you're talking about now, but I incorrectly assumed you were saying one needed to cut up factory wiring. For all intents and purposes, I consider even the pig tailed Scosche adapters to be plug and play simply because the wire colors are standardized and all you need is butt connectors. I guess it's splicing technically, but hell it's so second nature to me I don't consider it work, you know?
I don't know where the true plug and play adapters can be had. Crutchfield maybe. I can imagine they won't be cheap though, would be best just to get the Scosche adapter and wire it up. Too easy.
That doesn't make alot of since to me. Why would I want my car nav's system to require that I use a certain phone?
Next we will have android or iOS cars?
Just drove from SF TO PHX. I have an iPad as a gps mounted in my car. Never touched the ipad. Got directions, found food, played music, sent messages, made reminders and appts and dinner reservations...all on Siri.
The intention is to have the numbers as close to the driver as possible to avoid distraction. Centered might look prettier, but would be far more difficult to operate whilst driving.
Actually...just click overview and you can zoom in and out wherever you want during travel. I keep it there for road trips but snap it back to street view when I'm in cities.
Apple Maps is way better now. I used it on a trip across the country recently and it was perfect.
Ironically, Waze is natively supported by AppRadio, so you can buy one and use that now without Apple's interface.
I have a motion bypass installed so I can work my gps, watch videos etc without being stopped. I did question this however the first couple times I was scrolling through my music like an ipod staring at the screen. I thought to myself how could that be any different than using a phone.
Most things will be compatible with a simple adapter. Where it gets hairy is steering wheel controls. If you don't care about those, compatibility is almost certainly a non-issue.
Last week I tried it out to see if it had improved. My doctor's office is next to a freeway onramp, but the entrance to the parkinglot is accessible only through a residential neighborhood. Maps told me to drive onto the onramp and make a right... through a brick wall. Waze and Google Maps both directed me the right way.