Category: carplay

BMW adds a $80 yearly subscription for Apple’s CarPlay

Post author By Randall
Post date July 24, 2019
Categories In Apple, Bmw, business, carplay, Entertainment, gear, payment, service, services, subscription, Tech, Transportation

[ad_1] The carmaker did give fair warning of its plans for such a subscription service, having first announced its intentions some 18 months ago. But that hasn’t made the move any more palatable for would-be BMW owners, as CarPlay is included as standard in the price of many other, lower-priced cars (the Kia Ceed, for […]

Your library’s audiobook app now supports Apple CarPlay

Post author By Randall
Post date July 15, 2019
Categories In apple carplay, applecarplay, audiobook, carplay, Entertainment, libby, services, Tech

[ad_1] Libby works with 90 percent of public libraries throughout North America. So if your local book lender supports Libby, all you’ll need is a valid library card to access free audiobooks. Through CarPlay, you can, of course, play and pause audiobooks and skip back and forward through them. You can adjust the playback speed […]

Spotify Stations radio app now works with CarPlay

Post author By Randall
Post date July 2, 2019
Categories In app, Apple, av, carplay, Entertainment, ios, pandora, spotify, spotifystations, Tech

[ad_1] Spotify Stations breaks Spotify’s radio feature out into a separate app. It surfaces music based on your own playlists and listening habits, and lets you add or subtract artists and like or dislike songs. Since you can listen to tunes without thinking too much or digging in to your collection, it’s especially convenient on […]

A BMW outage made Apple CarPlay unusable

Post author By Randall
Post date May 10, 2019
Categories In Apple, apple carplay, Bmw, bmwconnected, carplay, connectdrive, gear, gps, services, Tech, Transportation

[ad_1] Perhaps adding to driver frustration is that BMW has made no public statement about the ConnectedDrive outage or given an idea of when it will be fixed. A spokesman from BMW UK confirmed to Engadget that it experienced several outages to ConnectedDrive services in recent weeks, and has solved the problem for most of […]

Toyota’s 2020 Prius Prime arrives with CarPlay and Alexa

Post author By Randall
Post date May 3, 2019
Categories In alexa, carplay, gear, phev, plug-inhybrid, prius, priusprime, Tech, toyota, Transportation

[ad_1] The Prius Prime delivers 25 miles or all-electric range, enough for many folks to never burn gas during their daily commutes. If you do need to take it on a road trip, you’ll get 54 mpg combined fuel economy, making it one of the most economical cars on the road. Other new features include […]

Toyota brings Alexa and CarPlay to 2018 Camry and Sienna

Post author By Randall
Post date April 30, 2019
Categories In alexa, apple carplay, camry, car, carplay, Cars, connected car, dsrc, gear, Iphone, minivan, Mobile, sienna, Tech, toyota, Transportation, v2x

[ad_1] Not all is rosy for Toyota’s technological plans, though. The company has tucked in word that it will “pause” its plans to install Dedicated Short-Range Communications tech in its US vehicles starting in 2021. It wants “greater automotive industry commitment” for the connected car system, but it also expects government support to preserve the […]