01-25-2019, 12:27 PM | #61 |
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True and I don't see car manufacturers going out of their way to add more functionality to their onboard systems. I remember my iPod having a remote and I could control what I played through it. Does that not work with newer systems?
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Finally got the car back from the shop. My initial take is "sweet". The unit has it's own GPS, that works with Google Maps and Apple Map, so I don't need my Garmin GPS unit anymore. It also works with the onboard cameras fairly well.
The deal with the Audible app is that it shows the audiobooks you have downloaded to the app, so all I have to do is download the next 5 or 6 audiobooks that I plan to listen to. When it finishes with one, I just select the next one I want to listen to. It also supports the books app, but I haven't really played around with that yet. It also does podcast as well as regular music. The unit has a cd/DVD player (in theory, I can play a DVD but that would be rather stupid of me) as well as digital radio and satellite radio. I generally speaking do no listen to radio all that much, but it's good to have, just in case. I'll find out over the next several weeks how well everything actually works. Does it lose it's place if I forget to pause the audiobook before turning off the car? All the little gotcha's that one finds after actually using something for a while. I will likely continue to use my iMac to manage my longer list of books that I haven't listened to yet in iTunes. |
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So far, I'm loving it. I've jumped between books without losing my place, no mysterious starts from the beginning of the book and picking a new book can be down with no more distraction than changing radio channels.
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03-10-2019, 04:22 PM | #65 |
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To give an update after a month, I'm still glad I made the investment. I've been driving more the last several weeks and I've gone through several books now. Pulling up the next audiobook is very easy. No problems with phone calls and it even will read text to me via Siri. I made up a DVD full of music for the rare times that I don't have my iPhone hooked up.
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