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With the introduction of Apple CarPlay, an industry leading business started to venture into in-car electronics and automotive assistance. Apple created a homogenous interface for your smartphone and the systems integrated into your vehicle.
CarPlay renders the image - I’m assuming always at 800x480 resolution - on the smartphone itself and sends an H.264 video stream to the display unit via the USB Lightning cable. There’s also a command backlink providing either touchscreen functionality or control by hard buttons and knobs.
Car manufacturers have started to integrate CarPlay into their systems, but only few of them have released it to their new customers so far. So for most users, the only way of getting Apple CarPlay into your vehicle is by installing an aftermarket solution. Pioneer and Alpine both now offer a series of models with the CarPlay compatibility.
The Alpine iLX-007/iLX-700 is equipped with a 7“ 800x480 capacitive touch screen, comparable with your iPhone/iPad/…, but barely any additional features. For example, it features no integrated DAB or DVD/CD slot - but for most users this is perfectly fine as their music will be streamed through online services or derive directly from their iPhones itself.
The installation was straight forward. I’ve reused the old Alpine connector that was installed in my vehicle (Lotus Evora MY09), swapped a single pin (old: audio interrupt input - new: reverse signal) and after that it was a plug&play. You’d be best off purchasing an Alpine adapter for your specific car to ensure best compatibility. But you may of course use the supplied cable or craft your own adapter cable from it.
A few notes on the head unit:
The Alpine iLX-007/iLX-700 is a very high quality car stereo head unit. It provides very high sound quality, has a solid feature foundation and a very elegant and Apple-like design to it. The hard Siri button is worth gold! The only thing I’m missing are hard volume buttons as the touch screen sensors are harder to find while driving.
A few notes on CarPlay:
CarPlay is an amazing technology to help you on the road rather than distracting you. Dictating messages through Siri is one of the main reasons I decided to upgrade to a CarPlay unit myself, though Siri tends to think I’m done dictating that message, while I’m still talking. I am assuming it’s only German related. Furthermore, I hope Apple will soon contribute more apps that are CarPlay-compatible or supply the developers the tools to create them. There are excellent gas station finder apps for your phone and I can’t think of a single reason why it shouldn’t fit into Apple’s „less distracting“ mission amongst apps like iHeartRadio, Spotify, Stitcher, etc.
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Alpine iLX-700 for Apple CarPlay - Amazon Germany - amzn.to/1xbZADw
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