An easiness boost for Android is that every time it starts up, it takes you to the home screen which is basically Google Now. It switches between different themes for day and night. The interface is really well done, playful, and easy to use. However, when AA is all the phone is doing, it runs really well.Īndroid Auto is nice. At first I was worried, because when I used my Nexus 5 the AA interface was kind of sluggish. Installed Spotify and downloaded all music. Turned off all push notifications and background services. I'm not sure how long that would work idle but I don't think it would be more than a few days. Unfortunately there is no way to automate things on iOS, so even when the car is off the iPhone would stay connected to wifi. Even short drives were enough to charge to 100%. Didn't encounter any problems with battery life while car was off, as I drive every day. I used Apple Maps a few times with no problems. I still had my regular phone to use at traffic lights, but it just wasn't as seamless. Hangouts doesn't support CarPlay, which is disappointing. That's Spotify's fault, this may differ depending on your app. As soon as I connected it to WiFi, they appeared and I could go offline. It would say I'm offline, but all the songs would disappear. Also, randomly the app would forget that I had music downloaded. Spotify was buggy, when I would tell it to shuffle play a playlist, it would play the playlist and not shuffle. You can pick out playlists and stuff to play from but you can't add something to your songs, make a new station, you can't even turn on Shuffle or Repeat. In Spotify, you can't do anything except back, play/pause, next. Playing music in Spotify is basically a black screen (with very blacked-out background art you can't make out). CarPlay is really solid to connect when the car starts, never had a problem. Most of the time the music started playing. The other half, I would be sitting at the home screen and have to swipe to the second page to get to Spotify (can't rearrange apps), then tap on Spotify. Half the time when I started the car, it would jump to the Spotify app. CarPlay also lacks in the easiness factor. Just not visually appealing, not really playful or sexy. I also set it up to use my phone's WiFi hotspot and the garage WiFi. The iPhone was wiped, and I installed Spotify and downloaded all the music I need. I also use Google Voice for all my calls, so I can route incoming calls to any phone number I want and make outgoing calls appear to be from my regular number. I use Hangouts for 99% of my messaging and Spotify for all my music. Now I'm using the Nexus 5 and Android Auto exclusively. I don't interact with them while driving except if something goes wrong. I leave them plugged in the car, usually tucked away under the center console. So I have tried using both as permanent AA/CarPlay devices. I just won't plug in, unless to charge.įor various reasons, I have an extra iPhone 6 16GB and Nexus 5 32GB. I drive short distances and I got the Touring because of the "easiness." Touch the door to open, push the button to start, don't bother with wipers, don't bother with AC, etc. Didn't have the problem with AA, but I didn't want to plug my phone in every time I drove. It seems to be a problem with I/O to the WiFi and Bluetooth chip. I was originally using Bluetooth from my Nexus 6P to play music. I wanted to share my setup I've been working on though: I haven't posted much recently as I was a bit tired of the negativity on the forums.
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