Connect your Android phone equipment in your car makes sense. We checked what can the new solution found in Seacie Ibiza
If you have not heard of Android Auto is the time to catch up. Google is a solution that enables better integration of smartphone hardware in the car. In other words, use specific applications on the phone through the screen built into the dashboard. So on your car radio navigation’ll see a Google phone mode, as well as several music players. Is it a revolution? Do not.
edgings ideas
The idea of Google is not first and foremost nothing new. It is not difficult with the impression that creating Android Auto Americans simply brazenly zerżnęli idea creators MirrorLink: an almost forgotten era of Nokia’s Symbian and Volkswagen, which was the first car manufacturer began testing. Similarly with Apple CarPlay. Apple took advantage of someone else’s idea and named it his way. Unfortunately this is the curse of our times, in which the right to intellectual property is treated after zbójecku.
Android Auto is officially in Poland is not. I still do not know when they will appear in the Google Play store. At the time of the test, Android Auto is officially was available in Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Mexico, New Zealand, Spain, the UK and the USA. It is of course workaround. The lucky ones who have access to the .apk file, can try the Android Auto in our country.
We test 4 telephones and Seat Ibiza.
Android Application Auto installed immediately in several phones: HTC Desire 820 HTC One M8 Samsung Galaxy S6 and the Samsung Galaxy Note Edge. We also tried two new smartphones Sony Xperia and Xperia Compact Z3 Z3, but despite several attempts, we could not. All phones equipped with the appropriate software checked in the new Seacie Ibiza, which is equipped with a great radio adapted to three solutions: Android Auto, CarPlay and MirrorLink.
Connect and enjoy
It is difficult for a simpler solution. Phone (with the active data transmission and Internet access) connecting the USB cable to the radio SEAT. And in the radio menu you select the preferred mode of connection (MirrorLink or Android Auto). Nothing more. Just a few seconds to the screen characteristics of the car appeared menu. Such as in the photo below.
I must admit that to master handler does not need a doctorate in engineering. It’s easy to learn the various functions. And even easier to see for voice. By clicking on the microphone icon characteristic Easily find the destination for the navigation or choose caller from the phone book. “Warsaw Domaniewska 52″ and after a while navigation leads to the editors. Just as easily call to your friends if you remember how you entered them into the phone. In terms of the effectiveness of voice recognition Android Auto looks better than very well.
Navigation Google Android Auto: as a Soviet soldier
Instead factory navigation Google applications on your car. Is it a good alternative? Contrary to appearances, yes.
Compared with many a navigation company, Google provides more and better information about traffic, ie. traffic. We can therefore see a clear color map with visible stoppers. Although in terms of coverage of the street network Google still needs to catch up, it already is pretty good. What’s more: traffic are surprisingly accurate. Even so valued applications like AutoMapa NaviExpert whether TomTom will not once gave way to Google in terms of indicating the exact location of congestion. As in advertising: Google can already say – bravo me.
Google Maps Seacie is not perfect. More. It’s still easy to navigate without the possibility of advanced planning, taking into account a number of intermediate points. Also missing is an extensive catalog of POIs. And the same conduct sometimes resembles a determined drive Soviet soldier in the tank: any straight on Berlin. In this respect, the US navigation is still finesse in evading traffic jams as is the case with AutoMapa or NaviExpert.
The downside of Google is the lack of warning of speed cameras, accidents and other obstructions. But there is a solution. Before podłączycie phone to the radio you need to turn the call point. Yanosik then it runs in the background. While it is not visible on the screen hardware Seacie, however, the speakers can be heard warning.
Music straight from the internet super
You can see that emphasis was placed on the ability to listen to music directly from the network. Android Auto mode had access to services such as Google Music, NDP One, Spotify, Stitcher and TuneIn Radio. The greatest pleasure we had with Spotify. Primarily due to the huge catalog of recordings.
Regardless of the application impressed by the sound quality. The sound nothing like the devastated cassette tape. Music not been because of drastic compression, which made it more fun it was while listening to music from the network rather than from the FM radio. It should also be proud of SEAT. Original set of speakers in Ibiza, combined with a decent amplifier in radio work perfectly. Once upon a time in such a small car is not so pleasant to listen to the recordings. I can not imagine even that anyone planning an exchange system for the better. Statistical buyer’s enough. Only audiophile will invest a large sum in a much better system.
Android Auto or MirrorLink?
It is impossible to avoid comparisons Android Auto for MirrorLink. In one respect, Google has an advantage. You can see the consistency of the whole system – with a simple menu and easy to use. In MirrorLink erected and a greater number of applications and menus straight from your smartphone. What is better? I comfortably supports Android Auto. But in terms of the application will MirrorLink.
Probably still will be a long time before good will clarify the situation with the systems integration with the car phone. And this is one of the reasons for frustration. Another there are problems with compatibility. We still do not have any guarantee that what works today, tomorrow will continue to function. Past experiences teach distrust of Apple, Google, automobile manufacturers and mobile. Nobody is currently not in a position us to ensure that our phone will work fine with the system in the car throughout the life of one or the other. And this is the crux of the problem.
We like
– convenient operation
– relatively stable and fast work (with few exceptions)
– a voice recognition system
– traffic data road to navigate Google
– the ability to run in the background call point (eg. Yanosik) to hear warnings from car speakers
– A good display
– a very good sound quality in Seacie Ibiza
– the main menu, Android Auto
– access to music services such as Spotify
We did not like
– occasional hang the app
– no full translation feature Android Auto into Polish
– the lack of alternative navigation for Google
– a limited number of applications
– officially the Android Auto function is still available in Poland
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