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Pioneer AppRadio Gets Hands on Treatment
May 26th, 2011
I have been parked in my car on many occasions looking down at the small screen of my iPhone watching Netflix or Hulu. I generally always wish I had a larger screen to watch on. Back in April, I talked a bit about a new radio from Pioneer for your car that has a larger screen for viewing your iPhone apps called AppRadio.
Engadget has gone hands on with that AppRadio and it looks even cooler now than it did before. The AppRadio mirrors your iPhone interface on the radio’s larger touchscreen. I see a few downsides to this though. Apparently, all of the controls are touchscreen. I hate touch controls on things that you will likely be using without taking your eyes off the road.
You will have to look away from the road to change channels and to interact with things on the screen. Another downside is that there are only a few apps that will run on the device right now it seems. You can get Rdio, Pandora, INRIX, and MotionX-GPS Drive. Here I thought it would just show you any app you wanted on the larger screen. The AppRadio screen does support gestures like pinch to zoom. See more of the hands-on in the video clip below:
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You guys get paid, right?
Who pays you then?
Does freaking Apple pay your salaries?
I’ve been following you guys for over a year now. And in that time, I’ve seen you review hundreds, if not thousands, of Apple specific device, or more typically, their accessories.
What the hell man? In a year, I’ve seen maybe a few blips on anything that is NOT Apple-owned.
maybe some of us out here don’t like apple. Or maybe we’re just ambivalent and don’t care. Either way, spice it up and show me something that isn’t more Apple-fanboyism wankery that you seem to be so fond of.
Damn.
Apple doesn’t pay us a dime. We write about stuff we find interesting, and certainly have covered plenty of products that aren’t Apple specific.
Here are a number of Android related posts:
http://technabob.com/tag/android/
Microsoft related posts:
http://technabob.com/tag/microsoft/
Blackberry related posts:
http://technabob.com/tag/blackberry/
PC related posts:
http://technabob.com/tag/pc/
Linux related posts:
http://technabob.com/tag/linux/
Google related posts:
http://technabob.com/tag/google/
While there may be disproportionately more Apple posts, it is only because we see disproportionately more product and app announcements for Apple and Apple accessory makers than other device manufacturers.
Ok, so you don’t get paid by them.
As far as disproportionate? You got that right. Especially in the realm of mobile devices…
Well, whatever, I don’t write for you. Your “interests” are decidedly one-way, which I see as a drawback; should you find other things interesting there might be more, or different, tech feeds to watch. But if you’re not interested, you’re not going to see them. And neither will we.
As it stands the disproportionate coverage you provide, do you think its helping other manufacturers or hindering them? If the vast majority of readers see one company represented, do you think they’ll know to look for anything else?
One can only hope that your readers aren’t total automatons though!
Nice having some discourse with you all.
I wouldn’t mind seeing more posts about the non-Apple markets, but I can understand that Apple stuff seems more prolific because it’s easier for manufacturers to make a product for a device that’s standardized with a massive user-base (let’s face it, everyone and their dog seems to have iPhones) than to play that same game with Android devices and their diversity.
Both models have pros and cons, and I think that a lot of people who read tech blogs lean more toward customizable hardware and a lot of what Android, PC, Linux, and such stand for, everyone has their own tastes.
I guess bottom line, for me, I don’t mind the Apple articles but I would be more inclined to read more posts for the other groups too.
Technology is fascinating, no matter who made it.
Installed mine tonight. It was quirky for 10 minutes, but figured it was me. Then it got hung in the Inrix app. Unhooked it all and let it reset. Put it back in and iPhone would not sync back up. Then it got hung in the configuration app. Unhooked again and let it sit, took it back out, connected it back up and it got stuck in a reboot loop. What a major disappointment! I really thought this was the bargain of the year. Turns out it is the hassle of my year considering the effort it took to install it and now return it.
By the way, it’s powered by Windows Mobile.