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hey it's just regard from Android authority what's going on everybody and we're over here at Hyundai once again not at was it showstoppers are pepper calm that we met it wasn't it was at pep calm yeah we're on pep calm anymore we're actually on the floor here at CES 2015 the huge Hyundai booth right over here in the North Hall and I'm here with my good buddy Rob great to see you again man and we're gonna get a demonstration from him about Android auto so you can give us a just sort of a quick rundown well how Android auto just sort of it fits into the preliminary like driving experience at the very least right so you know there's a lot of people that want to just use their their Android experience in the car so we're providing a way working with Google to project that experience through their Android auto auto right so we have software on our head units you plug in your USB cable and you get that Android experience in your head unit you can use your steering wheel controls your buttons in the car to move tracks or raise the volume and lower it you know voice prompts through the steering wheel voice button so very seamless integration so we're really proud of our work with that awesome all right well let's take a look at the actual unit itself what the best part is I least for me right now is we don't have to be in a car in order to see it we have these lovely chamber units right here that are going to give us an easy way of looking at what Android auto would look like so let's take a look all right so we're what we're looking at here is our new display audio system we just announced recently and what we've done with this system is remove the CD player remove the built-in navigation and really just give provide a screen for Android auto users so people have Android phones can easily just plug in their phone and here we have a nexus 5 and just plug it into our USB port 6 sec and android auto comes up you can easily just navigate right into it and now your you start off in like a very google now like experience where you have these cards based on some of the things you do and you have these shortcuts like google maps built right in and you you can input things via voice so navigate to the MGM Grand so just you know like on your song it takes voice prompts you can also use the steering wheel button we've got this here to simulate what a steering wheel button would do I've got phone call phone at menu so while you're in other modes of Android auto it'll still give you the navigation prompts on the top here so here's some of the calls we made voicemail we've used it dialed most of your voicemail speed dial and music is so this is on iHeartRadio but let's say you have google play music you can easily just switch to different apps that are set up for Android auto and each app has its own color scheme so this layouts the same for any of the music apps but the color scheme may be different depending on what the branding is or something like iHeartRadio you'll see it uses more red you know following their branding guidelines but also there'll be different buttons relevant to that app like you know favorite but on Google Play Music you may have a thumb up or come down button and in this menu here is reserved for called car apps so you may see like a blue link app later on but you currently use this just go back to our home screen but the nice thing about our integration with Android auto it's actually very seamless and tied deeply in where let's say you're in here and you're you know listening to the radio or you know FM you can still be navigating with Google Maps in the background it'll actually just send you the prompts right through it all runs together so it's not like a separate mode that the head units in it's actually operating concurrently and likewise you could be listening to music out of out of your Android auto experience while navigating or doing something else in the head unit so if we go back to home you can easily just dive right back into Android auto who won the World Series in 2013 the Boston Red Sox won the World Series in 2013 so just like you normally interact with your Android phone through Google now and some other things in this it's just like it's right this is all running off your phone being projected onto the our display audio system quick question we just saw the demonstration of Android auto that question that you used about the world series in 2013 has I've been the question you've been using this whole time actually it has but I also have been texting people and calling people so we have a variety of things that we do just to show that this is the same experience that that you're used to on your phone it's just when you ask that question I in my head I thought he's been asking that all the time to this thing all right well Android auto looks like it's going to have a great integration with the Hyundai cars I almost said it's not it but they're gonna get inside a little bit but also the integration with say blue link and whatnot really will make this a robust system we talked a little bit earlier with one of your colleagues about sort of the hierarchy of the different types of radio units or center console units and Android auto has a very important place in the middle of that can you give us can kind of elaborate for us what it means to have Android auto in that ecosystem yeah so we want to give our customers freedom of choice right they have whether they have an iPhone we have carplay Android auto through Android phones and also our native navigation systems so we're not choosing one or the other we're giving all the options to our owners with the system like what we saw now display audio that doesn't come with integrated navigation or or CD player it brings the price point down so that Android auto is not tied to a premium audio system that typically is bundled with like an infinity audio system integrated navigation on an SD card those add cost by being able to make this a more entry level system we see this being standard on our most premium models but also available on our more entry-level models is like a mid-grade system so we're gonna bring Android auto basic to like most of our customers through this go ahead just out of curiosity that that top-tier unit that you are talking about what exactly does that want to entail if Android auto is somewhat lower on the hierarchy yeah so that comes with integrated navigation through here or navteq you know previously so there are some things you know if you don't have cell service unless you're running offline mode on Google Maps you're gonna be out of luck right so there's still that reliability of integrated navigation plus you get CD player so we don't want CD players still also Infinity audio that we offer in the Sonata or a high-end audio and other systems too tall bump together so they're still that about 30% of our cars are premium audio right so we see this being more than the majority of what we sell being like more of a core systems our display audio where it's more accessible at a much lower price point than our being a bundled premium package that's great being able to have something as awesome as Android auto or even just an upgrade from your let's say crappy car unit can be just a big game changer for a lot of drivers out there well Rob thank you for the demonstration it's always good to see man thank you so much this is Android authority reporting to you live from the Hyundai booth here at CES 2015 make sure you stay tuned for the rest of our coverage