The Bluetooth in my 2102 Scion xB's stock calculator-display headunit works great.
I turn on the car, my phone auto-connects, and my last podcast immediately starts playing where it left off. I don't even know how it does that. I receive a phone call, and my music is paused and I can hit the green "pick up phone" button on the headunit, and I'm talking. Call ends, and my music resumes. I can pause the music with the "1" button, skip within a track, skip tracks, even thumbs-up or thumbs-down in music apps, all with a handful of manual buttons on a stock headunit. No "flipping menus", the existing buttons just work.
It's amazing. It just works. All without any god damn embedded mobile operating system or fancy graphics. ... oh, and because this headunit has a CDROM bay, it holds my magnetic phone mount better than any of the stick-on or vent-grippy ones. Thanks, dumb car!
I turn on the car, my phone auto-connects, and my last podcast immediately starts playing where it left off. I don't even know how it does that. I receive a phone call, and my music is paused and I can hit the green "pick up phone" button on the headunit, and I'm talking. Call ends, and my music resumes. I can pause the music with the "1" button, skip within a track, skip tracks, even thumbs-up or thumbs-down in music apps, all with a handful of manual buttons on a stock headunit. No "flipping menus", the existing buttons just work.
It's amazing. It just works. All without any god damn embedded mobile operating system or fancy graphics. ... oh, and because this headunit has a CDROM bay, it holds my magnetic phone mount better than any of the stick-on or vent-grippy ones. Thanks, dumb car!