Spotify Announces the 'Car Thing' as its First Hardware Device

[Livvie]

I feel like we’ll see these mostly in company cars etc.

 

[Jack Neill]

They sell something like this. For $300 it's a little price for what it is:

Car and Driver INTELLIDASH with Apple Carplay and Android Auto, 7'' IPS Touchscreen Multimedia Player with Bluetooth, Mirror Link, SiriusXM, Google, Siri Assistant Dash or Windshield Mounted

INTELLIDASH with Apple Carplay and Android Auto, 7'' IPS Touchscreen Multimedia Player with Bluetooth, Mirror Link, SiriusXM, Google, Siri Assistant Dash or Windshield Mounted (Wired)

www.amazon.com

My other thought was to get an Android tablet, install Carplay APK on it, plug in the Carplay dongle, and use the tablet as a Carplay screen. It's the only choice for my motorcycle.

I tried the tablet thing but the experience was quite terrible however I used a Fire HD 8" and those things suck. I looked at the intellidash thing but it seemed very expensive and I thought that it used FM for audio and that's not what I'm looking for.

 

[nickawhite]

Just got mine. Absolutely love it so far. My Jeep has a old boring single din deck and I hate the portrait mode Car UI Spotify has. It quite a slick device. I would love a Car Play device like this.

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Put in a good word for me with the program! Still waiting for an invite and would looove this device! Perfect in my little 2007 Subaru haha.

 

[Jack Neill]

Put in a good word for me with the program! Still waiting for an invite and would looove this device! Perfect in my little 2007 Subaru haha.

I was on the list too but never heard back from Spotify, I bought mine of eBay for 91$ and free shipping. I like it and very happy with it.

 

[Unregistered 4U]

That's an excellent point.
As long as you have a car with blutooth or a USB, your smartphone is the device. And if your car doesn't have bluetooth or USB, you need to not buy Spotify equipment, not buy Spotfy or Apple Music, and start saving for the new car you're likely to need soon.

I’ve always thought that depending on the phone is what they’d do in order to produce a mass number of test devices. Once they got it nailed down, I figured the “production” systems would have their own connections, maybe the same as SiriusXM does, only the interface would be the box with dial and not your head unit.