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Parrot Android Auto Interview

2015-01-10
darks lack of a reporting live from CES 2015 we're here with Andrea thority and we are fortunate to be in the parrot booth checking out their wonderful products I'm here with dr. whale Morelli he's a project manager a parent and they're gonna show us their latest Android in the car okay high five thank you good so here is the power of nb6 the most connected the new generation of alpha tainment system it's an aftermarket product which makes a media so you can have a USB stick and control the media of your system you can make phone calls also so the other is running completely on yes the operating system is based powered by Android 5.0 it's enjoyed lollipop so then you have applications you guys see under Authority right there so it's connected to the car so you can control your private very nice I saw a lot of custom development went into this to adapt it for this car yeah yeah it's come to it will be compatible with 90% of the cars on the market nice so in in terms of a person connecting to the device if they have their smartphone and they want to access music would they do a Bluetooth connection or could they do a USB yeah a native mod and when they are used on v6 mode they can connect through USB a fabulous little different and then they connect on USB they have the protected mode of Android auto so you can share they or see you back there Auto runs is an application yes so they have here the music you have the music on your phone that's Google Play Music yes that's a good song let's play some music and then you also have the applications mark you install everything on the phone you configure yahoo account your playlist you arrive in the car you just plug in then you have everything displayed on the main screen you also have Google Maps with turn-by-turn navigation you can show us where we are find the nearest best buy we talk about pricing and release the release would be this year later this year the price is not yet community and ok I understand what the base display wonderful so parrot has a lot of experience making double date displays yes you've been in this place for a long time and you one of the earliest adopters of Android in the car you had a your own customers before but what do you view as the potential look what do you see things going you know the consumer demand you know are you selling a lot of these types of units yes yes the idea is to provide to be compatible with Android auto and also carplay in order to bring technology a smartphone technology in the car we also have a Altoid phone but we adjust the user experience to the car using word you drive you don't text and drive so we bring many many vocal systems many vocal commands many many vocal commands here you have the dash camera which will be provided with it so yeah Eiffel Tower let's talk about what's on the rear of the unit so what are we looking at here so here you have a you have a 4 a 4 channel amplifier yeah and you have a GPS GLONASS they have the radio Diaby digital audio broadcasting they have also the video audio video input for the rear camera display the video input and output it's compatible with a machine also so we can have multiple displays in the car yeah for a seat entertainment yeah so you can connect with a HDMI or also with an Ethernet is this is the port to connect your frontal camera it will be connected to the OBD port well into the wire yeah will be connected with a while directly to the car nice and he will be a Ethernet for the future and you have two USB stick to connect sure there's also NHL or USB this for the development aid in order to develop applications because we were released an SDK for the developers station developers read my mind yeah and the last one is in vehicle networking is to interface with the car to communicate with the canvas through canvas in order to retain the steering wheel commands so in terms of the output of the amplifier what are we looking at in terms of for channel yeah it's for channel and the up footage in terms of wattage is like 50 watts RMS per channel or do you know the output the power yeah 62 okay 62 yeah exactly sounds good means better than wonderful okay what's pretty straightforward so and what is the product called pirate island e6 okay will be released this year it'll become available in the United States and worldwide okay fantastic I want to say big thank you for your time thank you alright well it starts like cavae reporting live from CES 2015 we're here at the pair of booth stay tuned for more great coverage
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