friedmud

claire1 said:

There has to be better button placement.

 I agree!  Just don't have the volume buttons directly across from the power button.  I don't know how this has gone on for so long.

I would still love to have to power button on top...

pulseimages said:

Plus even if you have CarPlay you’re still taking your eyes off the road to read the message. The LCD screen isn’t located in the windshield! 

CarPlay does not ever "show" a text message on the screen.  It will "speak" it to you... but that's it.

Just bought a new car in November.

CarPlay was a must: but you should know that not all CarPlay screens are equal either.  In my testing the Ford implementation was way beyond the competition: biggest, clearest screen, most responsive and best sounding.

I ended up with a fully loaded Ford Edge Sport - and I can definitely say that the seamless CarPlay played into that decision (as well as the car being all around excellent).

On a recent trip I had a rental car that was a 2017 Toyota Highlander: and I couldn’t even believe how dated everything was.  There wasn’t even a “Siri Button”: just some dumb built-in voice assistant that was terrible.  Everything about the car was rubbish: but by far the “infotainment” system was the worst part.

Pretty funny to see Toyota scrambling to put CarPlay in their cars now.

Everyone loves to hate on every accessory maker and talk about how "in the good old days cables / networking gear was rock solid".  It's all just rosy glasses looking backward.

Linksys, for instance, currently has one of the best reviewed mesh wifi systems on the market: Velop.

I personally ended up buying the Netgear Orbi system instead... but it was a tough choice between that and Velop.  Both are _very_ good.

Soli said:

friedmud said:

I may end up with one.  I have a Series 0 Watch, iPhone X and AirPods... so I could use it.

Will it work with Series 0 since that's not the Qi standard?

Dunno - one of the things I'll wait to find out.