Wow, after watching that MB demo video of Carplay, I'm all about it. Love how fluid and simple and easy it seems to work. All without ever having to touch your iPhone. The UI is clean, simple, and not cluttered. Love how fluid and fast it works too.

Personally after seeing this demo I could care less about using any of the other apps or mirroring the iPhone display. Personally I think it creates too much distraction and driving safety risks. Music, phone, messages, navigation, and music are functionally all the things I would ever want/need to do while in my car. It's everything I do now with the native NAV system in the RLX, with the exception of accessing the HVAC controls.

It looks like Apple really designed it to only function and replace the same functions that a cars native systems provide, with the exception of the HVAC controls. I think they were smart in doing that and so far it looks brilliant in execution.

Can't wait to see this supported by Acura.

 

The refreshed 2016 Accord has CarPlay.

I think most of them will, as changes are made here on out.

 

2016 Civic has it, too.

0_o

 

I'm sure the RLX will have it for the 2017 MY.

 

I guess that if I put my Air 2 in LTE mode and put it in the iKross, that's pretty much CarPlay.

;-)

Maps would be as good as it'd be in the upper screen...actually a little better.

iPod connection hard wired, Aha and Pandora would work as well as it'd work with the iPhone.

I just have to worry about it being in the passenger's way if I've mounted it to the right enough to have full access to all the car's controls.

 

LOL...

This from the guy who yelled at Tesla for having a giant iPad in the middle of the car.

 

George - Just trade your iPad Air for an iPad Pro, disable the gas engine in your RLX SH-AWD, and you'll have your own Tesla!

 

I have read that various older versions of IOS and android don't work well with car play

 

Well, it stands to reason that of course *no* Android is going to work with CarPlay.

But why would you want to hold onto an old version of iOS?

Jailbreaking?

 

CarPlay is an Apple specific technology designed for iOS devices (eg. iPhone). Thus anything other than an iOS based device isnt part of the equation. That's where the car manufacturer must decide which "platform" they want to support. Android or iOS. CarPlay is not a generic third-party "open-source" platform whereby you can just plug any mobile/smarphone device into it.

As for older versions of iOS, CarPlay wasnt a technology platform introduced until iOS 8. So anything older than that simply doesnt have the feature available in it. CarPlay is a combination of technologies enabled by both the mobile device and the head unit in a car. So like most things in technology, it takes two to tango. Requirements must be met on both sides. Keeping your iPhone updated to the latest iOS has become a pretty meanial and non-complicated task even for the non-tech savvy. So I don't see it being a big issue.

At least it will be a hell of lot less of a headache trying to keep iOS compatible with the Acura software in their NAV system that is rarely ever updated, and if so, cant even address simple bugs like traffic line colors, etc.

 

CarPlay is an Apple specific technology designed for iOS devices (eg. iPhone).

I understand that. I meant to use Car Play as a general idea. The '16 Honda Accord uses both systems in the same package. I believe the back bone is Android.

I could be wrong, but various phone manufacturers' versions of Android seem very different from each other. ( there is only one IOS supplier )Make sure your phone works before buying the vehicle.

 

Nope. you're not wrong.

This is part of the reason why a top line Android phone will need 4 GB of RAM, and iOS doesn't need anything close to that. They put 4 GB in the iPad Pro, but that's because of some 64-bit productivity applications coming out next year.

Motorola's smartphones do not change Google's idea of Android very much.

Everybody else seems to add quite a bit to it.

But I'm not really an Android person...so if there's somebody "pure" in addition to Motorola, I'm sure I'm about to find out.

:-)