2020 Jeep UConnect 8.4-inch infotainment review

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Jeep is well known for building off-road capable cars, but what is the brand's in-car technology like? Paul Maric sits down to do a detailed review of the Jeep UConnect 8.4-inch infotainment system to see whether it's any good. This includes a look at the Apple CarPlay and Android Auto interfaces.  We review every new car on the market, bust car myths, cover the latest car tech and answer your burning questions.  Whether you need new car advice, purchase validation or simply love learning more about new cars and technology, we are your car experts.  Subscribe to Car Expert: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7DvMhvy3H7ntEgn9n3xQcQ?sub_confirmation=1  You'll find us dropping new video content three times a week. If you'd like to ask a question about one of our videos, simply leave us a comment. If you'd like to give us any feedback on our content, feel free to email us, or alternatively, hit us up on social media.  Finally, we want this channel to grow with your support and feedback. If there's anything you don't like or would like to see us change, we'd love to hear from you!  Follow us on social media to see what we're up to and to ask any questions!  CarExpert: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CarExpertAus Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/CarExpertAus Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/carexpert.com.au  Paul Maric: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/PaulMaric Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/PaulMaric Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/PaulMaric  #jeep #review #infotainment

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00:00 I'm Paul today. I'm going to take you through a detailed review of Jeep's Uconnect infotainment system

00:04 Plus some of the features you can experience in it along with the display ahead of the driver

00:09 You'll find in a lot of Jeep's vehicles now

00:12 If you haven't done so already make sure you have a look at the rest of our channel where we have a stack of car

00:15 Reviews some drag races and other interesting content as well. Anyway, let's get started

00:20 So it's an 8.4 inch screen starting off here. We have shortcut buttons all down the bottom terms of radio

00:28 You have AM/FM and DAB plus digital radio. So that's fully featured if we jump over to media

00:33 This is where you're able to stream through your phone through Bluetooth connection or through auxiliary or USB connections attached to the car

00:40 If we jump over to the climate menu just for completeness

00:43 You can operate your seat heating functions here

00:46 And then when you do switch the climate on all of the controls come here and the ability to sync

00:51 Move temperatures up and down and also select different zones as well terms of apps

00:55 You have all of your smartphone connectivity access through this screen

00:59 So this is what Apple CarPlay looks like really impressive setup

01:02 It is very high resolution and while it isn't full screen

01:05 It takes up pretty much all of the screen that it needs to and that integration looks really good

01:10 I'll show you what Android Auto looks like another integration similar in size to Apple CarPlay

01:15 Also super high resolution if we go into the maps there that all seems to work really nicely as well

01:21 So it's good that you have the flexibility of both Android and Apple devices there and in terms of other apps

01:25 In the apps menu there really isn't much else there

01:28 This is just a shortcut to access other parts of the car

01:31 But jump over to controls this simply takes us back to the menu item related to climate

01:36 Which is our heated seats now what I love here

01:39 It has inbuilt satellite navigation if we go to the map here

01:41 You can see that it is quite a fast and responsive map, but my favorite feature is I can configure

01:47 What the icon looks like so I can go through here and select different things such as other Jeep products

01:54 Go for a Wrangler, and if we go back to the map menu. There's our little Wrangler there

01:58 Let's see how quick it is we'll try and enter a new destination. We'll put in and go to which is Melbourne Airport

02:03 It's super fast for typing you know like that

02:07 airports

02:10 search

02:12 Yeah look that's not too bad it had a little bit of lag there

02:15 But once it comes up it gives us all of the options that we need so that is all good all of this is also

02:20 Backed up by a voice recognition system so one push of this on the steering wheel brings up the native voice recognition

02:25 And then if you do have a smartphone paired using a wired Apple CarPlay or Android Auto

02:30 Interface it will then send the voice commands through that which is generally more accurate because they're using the cloud

02:35 Moving on from that screen ahead of the driver is another color LCD display you control that using the steering wheel controls

02:42 And you can see here

02:43 There are a number of menus to go through including setup for the car and also display

02:47 And then you can also switch randomly the speedometer from kilometers an hour to miles per hour

02:52 Kind of redundant for us

02:53 And then you have a whole stack of trip computer information along with vehicle information too

02:58 And then on top of that if you do change drive modes you'll see the screen ahead of the driver change as well as you flick

03:04 Through them. Thank you for watching and if you did enjoy this video make sure you hit the like button follow it up with the subscribe

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