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<blockquote data-quote="RandyDSok" data-source="post: 168628" data-attributes="member: 201">While I was waiting on my games to redownload after getting my replacement drive.... I went out and played a bit with my car's features...First, finally got Android Auto to finally work... I hadn't realized it requires a USB connection and thought that the bluetooth connection was all it used... apparently not. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big Grin&nbsp; &nbsp; :D"&nbsp; data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />Android Auto ( and I assume the same is true for Apple CarPlay ) is a bit too limited in the number of apps that work with it to get me very excited. There are a few music streaming apps but I have over 2600 songs on a USB stick that don't take up my smartphone's data. There aren't currently any radar apps that work on it ( that I'm aware of as of yet ). There are news apps like NPR, a scanner radio app for fire, police and other similar radios, audio books... and of course maps such as Google Maps.I need to compare the built in NAV maps with Google Maps and see if I have a preference or not. The SiriusXM radio comes with 6 months of service and I believe there are a few others that come with free forever if what I read was actually correct, but I really doubt that... the one that got my attention was the Weather that has current and forecast info as well as radar map that is ok but not great... I may just look for something like a 10&quot; Android tablet and a mount that I can connect into my smartphone's hotspot in order to scratch that itch better.[ATTACH=full]22510[/ATTACH]</blockquote>

[QUOTE="RandyDSok, post: 168628, member: 201"] While I was waiting on my games to redownload after getting my replacement drive.... I went out and played a bit with my car's features... First, finally got Android Auto to finally work... I hadn't realized it requires a USB connection and thought that the bluetooth connection was all it used... apparently not. :D Android Auto ( and I assume the same is true for Apple CarPlay ) is a bit too limited in the number of apps that work with it to get me very excited. There are a few music streaming apps but I have over 2600 songs on a USB stick that don't take up my smartphone's data. There aren't currently any radar apps that work on it ( that I'm aware of as of yet ). There are news apps like NPR, a scanner radio app for fire, police and other similar radios, audio books... and of course maps such as Google Maps. I need to compare the built in NAV maps with Google Maps and see if I have a preference or not. The SiriusXM radio comes with 6 months of service and I believe there are a few others that come with free forever if what I read was actually correct, but I really doubt that... the one that got my attention was the Weather that has current and forecast info as well as radar map that is ok but not great... I may just look for something like a 10" Android tablet and a mount that I can connect into my smartphone's hotspot in order to scratch that itch better. [ATTACH=full]22510[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]

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