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Hyundai Now Offers an Android Car, Even For Current Owners

Posted by timothy on from the one-way-to-spin-it dept.

An anonymous reader writes: Looking more like a computer company than a car company, Hyundai ships Android Auto on 2015 Sonatas and unlocks it for owners of the 2015 Sonata with a software update. Says the article: To enable Android Auto, existing 2015 Hyundai Sonata owners outfitted with the Navigation feature can download an update to a USB drive, plug it into the car's USB port, and rewrite the software installed in the factory on the head-unit. When the smartphone is plugged into the head-unit with a USB cable, the user is prompted to download Android Auto along with mobile apps. Android Auto requires Android 5.0 or above. That sounds like a good description of how I'd like my car's head unit to work -- and for that matter, I'd like access to all of the software.

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  1. New fangled technology by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I have a 12 year old BMW with an integrated navigation system. It works very well indeed. It is simple to use.

    What I hate about the newer model BMW's is that the UI has become extremely complicated. It is not any easier to use and I actually find it slower.

    I'm not convinced at all that things are improving.