Gadgetory

hi I'm Wayne Kenan am here at the paris auto shout i'm taking a look at the new honda connect head unit this is the new head unit where the cars combines navigation and all at but the really cool thing about this new head unit is it's actually running the android operating system which gives it a lot of flexibility for apps and the like and also underneath the hardware there's an NVIDIA Tegra 3 chip running those things that's a fairly robust computing platform when we look at this interface here we get a tiled interface a fairly attractive tile that interface a very modern look but this is actually one of the interfaces you can load at least as they have on the demos here at the Paris show now when I look at this one one of the first tiles i sees navigation now that's at the center of most head units by hit that tile it brings up our very familiar-looking garmin icons here the garmin where to and the Garvin view maps buttons I take a look at the map I see a regular got a perspective view map and that's again this is Garmin software this is actually the garmin navigator app were seen here and this should also do live searches as well because this is a connected unit in the sense that it's actually running data from a connected smartphone when you have your smartphone connected to the system that's how this gets data through now we go back to the main screen here and the coolest thing about this is the app integration the fact that with Android we can load all sorts of apps on here so if I hit this one button on the side I bring up my app center and I can find new apps here's the apps that are loaded on the system right now I have aa ha radio that's internet radio service I don't have a web browser here that's kind of cool I hit the Honda App Center icon this is where i can find new apps for the system actually apps that are available on the App Store the Honda's going to run a lot is going to curate these apps I'm not going to let you load apps that they don't D more safe for the car like it on my car app section here I've got a number of apps i've got again aha I've got a p.o that's an internet radio service I've got a unbranded fuel prices app and a parking app to those are all useful things they only show a few apps here right now but being Android they can have anything that's a really available on the store right now so there's a ton of apps that they can make available to drivers if I go back to my main screen here I've got my standard head unit features like the stereo for example here's this audio tile here and right now we're seeing an F my screen this is just standard radio stuff i look at my sources here i've got USB ipod integration bluetooth streaming even an hdmi input this is all stuff it's going to be standard within this how to connect system but the app integration is really the exciting part about this and the android operating system just gives you so much flexibility in that regards this new honda connect system is going to be available in the new honda crv and the honda civic but only the European versions for now this is a fairly major hardware and software rollout so I would expect Honda is going to roll these out to other regions in the future but for now we don't really have any information about availability in the US I'm Wayne Cunningham here at the 2014 paris motor show