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Pioneer AppRadio 2 adds Android support

2012-01-11
what's up everybody this is Antoine Goodwin with cnet.com I'm on the floor of CES 2012 and pioneers booth taking a look at the app radio - now what pioneers done is they've taken the app radio that they debuted last year with the iPhone app integration this one works with iPhone 4 and iPhone s and it made it a little bit better those small changes add up to throw a pretty big new device we've got a bigger seven inch capacitive touchscreen that's multi-touch so when you're in your Google Maps you can actually pinch and zoom and swipe and scroll that sort of thing they've also added in this generation Android connectivity so if you have an Android phone that has a micro HDMI or an mlc connection then you can basically connect to the Android phone and take it for a little bit right here in the interface as well so we've got apps like Pandora and ways for navigation that you'll be able to use on the Android device in addition to the apps that they mentioned last year with the iPhone 4s we've also got more audio outputs in the back which should make this a more compelling device for users who want to build systems with multiple lamps there's also a dedicated rear-view camera input so if you want to add backup camera you can do all of that right here it's the MEK free device so it doesn't have an optical drive you can't play CDs or DVDs in here but if you really want to do that they've added an advanced app mode to their navigation and DVD receivers so if you want to get the best of both worlds you can also take a look at one of those devices right here I've been into one Goodwin I'm on the floor CES 2012 is the Pioneer app radio and I think it's pretty cool you
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