Car Tech’s guide to using your Android phone in the car
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As a CNET reader who’s addicted to tech, you likely already know why a phone and the apps therein can be useful in the car. Your phone is a hub for your music and entertainment, GPS navigation, and communications with your friends, family, and social circles. You’ve got your apps for streaming music and podcasts from the web, apps for picking a place to eat or finding the lowest fuel prices around, and your hands-free calls of course. Or, because phones are such personal devices, your handset can only bring a few of these things to your driving experience.
You’re in charge of why you’d want to use your Android phone in the car. The tricky part is figuring out how to do it and how to do it safely. Read on.
Bluetooth For the last few years and for most of the Android OS’s lifetime, Bluetooth’s Advanced Audio Distribution Profile (A2DP) has easily been your best bet for connecting an Android phone to most newer model vehicles. This is especially true if you’re already making the Bluetooth wireless connection for the Hands-free Profile (HFP) to make voice calls–using A2DP kills two birds with one stone. Often, A2DP connected stereos can display artist and title data for the currently playing song and almost always includes shortcuts (either onscreen or accessible by steering wheel buttons) for play, pause, and skip.
Bluetooth-to-stereo audio streaming does have one minor d… [Read more]
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