Hyundai at CES to Showcase Display Audio System Coming to 2016 Vehicles
Hyundai will use CES to showcase what it’s calling “the unthinkable” -- demonstrating a new Display Audio system with no CD player or embedded navigation system. Display Audio is a high-resolution seven-inch color touch-screen display that has been built specifically…
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for Android Auto and the latest generation Blue Link system. Blue Link uses a Verizon 4G connection to bring “seamless connectivity directly into the car,” Hyundai said. Display Audio “combines the best of phone-based connectivity technologies” with Blue Link, which provides features that are “only possible with an embedded telematics system,” such as remote engine start and automatic collision notification, it said. Blue Link also features maintenance alerts and the new Hyundai Assurance Car Care in-vehicle app, it said. Hyundai will launch Display Audio on select 2016 models and will eventually bring it to all of its entry-level models, it said. The Display Audio system brings “the newest smartphone integrations” into Hyundai vehicles through an “easy-to-access” USB port, it said. “Once the connection is made, users can access their smartphone for phone calls and contacts, music, navigation, messaging, and optimized third-party apps. Display Audio will have navigation capability through smartphone integrations and will also offer entertainment apps for music, news, sports and podcasts.