Gadgetory

hey everybody this is dieter with The Verge and we are looking at Android auto but it's not running on a dashboard it's running on a phone coming very soon Android auto is going to work just on a phone if you don't have it built into your car so let me show you a little bit about how it works so basically you can launch Android auto on your phone just by tapping the icon the other thing that's really neat is you can also launch it by pairing it to your car's bluetooth so it'll just automatically launch when you get into your car and as you can see this is a very simple straightforward Android auto layout they've reduced the buttons on the bottom so it's just navigation music and phone but as you can see you jump right into navigation and they've made these buttons on the bottom really really big so they're much easier to tap when you are driving so home will just take you back to the Android auto home instead of back to your actual home screen you can tap on music here and of course you can tap on recent calls you can also of course use OK Google or tap the microphone to give it voice commands which maybe won't work outside here and there's a whole bunch of other settings and feedback and stuff so this is a preview of Android auto and they expect that it will run on N and it will run on devices down to Android 5 and it should be available relatively soon and there you go it's Android auto on a phone even if you don't have it in your dashboard