Hyundai To Be First Automaker To Offer Android Auto In Vehicles

Google Inc.’s new Android Auto interface is now available in the 2015 Hyundai Sonata, the companies said today, making Hyundai the first automaker to offer a system that could be sold in millions of vehicles in the coming years as customers seek cars that work seamlessly with their smartphones.

The launch in the Sonata is a big win for Hyundai, which had raced to be first to offer Android Auto, and for Google, which could get its sleek, colorful system into tens of thousands of cars before its archrival Apple Inc. can do the same with its iPhone interface, known as CarPlay.

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MrEE - 5/26/2015 6:35:01 PM

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And for only a $5k+ premium, fail. Anyway Honda already launched Android in Europe for 2015, problem is US gets CarPlay based system, so you end up with less interoperability.

HughJass - 5/26/2015 9:26:43 PM

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Match made in heaven. Free O/S goes perfect for a free car. Just like a free O/S is found in a junkie free S6 phone.

Just like smartphones. You either go with Apple or settle on Android. After what the Koreans tried to do to Apple, Tim Cook probably told them to go f*ck themselves because Steve Jobs will come back from the dead before he lets Hyundai/KIA steal Apple's system.

HughJass - 5/26/2015 9:28:05 PM

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So what advantage does this have over my running my phone using bluetooth? Or is Hyundai just trying to up their image by being associated with Google?

bw5011 - 5/27/2015 10:01:56 PM

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I use Windows Phone, I prefer to just have my car run whatever phone I have. I do like Google maps in my Audi's but I prefer Windows. I would never use Apple and would easily turn down any car that puts that crap in the car. Winner winner chicken dinner is an interface that ports any mobile phone platform to the screen.