While BMW gets a lot of the limelight with the iDrive infotainment system and Mercedes-Benz has picked up its game with the MBUX infotainment system, what is Audi up to?
Audi continues on with MMI (MultiMedia Interface) and the latest iteration of Audi's infotainment system has been rolled out and now includes haptic feedback and wireless Apple CarPlay and Android Auto. Is the new infotainment system good? Paul Maric finds out!
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Audi continues on with MMI (MultiMedia Interface) and the latest iteration of Audi's infotainment system has been rolled out and now includes haptic feedback and wireless Apple CarPlay and Android Auto. Is the new infotainment system good? Paul Maric finds out!
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00:00 G'day, I'm Paul. Audi has recently upgraded the infotainment system in a lot of its cars. Today
00:04 I'm going to take you through a detailed review of MMI, which is Audi's infotainment system, plus the secondary screen that sits beneath it,
00:11 virtual cockpit and also head-up display, so you can see what all the features are like. Now,
00:16 if you haven't seen the other videos on our channel,
00:18 make sure you have a look at our car reviews, some of our drag races and other infotainment reviews as well.
00:23 But let's get stuck into this.
00:25 Up the top here, we have a 10.1 inch display.
00:28 It looks really nice and high resolution, but it has a special feature and that is haptic feedback.
00:33 So as you push your finger onto these, it lights up to give you an idea of the context of those menus.
00:39 But then what you can do is push a little harder,
00:41 you get a click and then you feel it on the end of your finger so that you know that you've hit that button
00:47 successfully. So, really like the way that's set up. I'll take you through each of these menus.
00:51 So if we jump into radio, you have AM, FM, DAB plus digital radio, plus the ability to stream online radio stations as well.
00:58 When you have a mobile paired device. Now,
01:01 you can use your telephone as the mobile device through Wi-Fi or in the glove box here,
01:06 you can put an extra SIM card in as well. The car also has its own SIM card inside for connected services. Over in the media
01:12 menu, this is where you'll find your Bluetooth devices plus also USB connected devices or any other
01:18 wirelessly connected devices to the car. Telephone, same story.
01:21 You can either go down the path of smartphone mirroring or Bluetooth connectivity. Now, keep in mind with smartphone mirroring,
01:27 you won't need one of these anymore because it is wireless Apple CarPlay and Android Auto.
01:31 I'll show you what that looks like. It is a really impressive system.
01:34 It is incredibly high resolution and look how quickly it jumps through those menus.
01:39 That is very, very impressive, that integration. What about navigation? I like the way that Audi has set this up.
01:46 So it's a very fast screen,
01:47 but you can see here that you have satellite overlays on the screen and then if you do need to put
01:52 navigation destinations in, you can either use the voice recognition system or type them in manually.
01:57 So let's try Melbourne Airport, which is my go-to. You can use the screen down here as a
02:01 typing pad, so I'll put in an M there.
02:04 Or you can simply bring up the keyboard and type the rest in. So it's like your own mini computer.
02:10 So let's give that a shot.
02:12 I'm sure that in 20 years time, we'll look back at this and laugh, but for the moment, it's pretty cool.
02:17 There you go. That's come up really nice and quickly.
02:19 So very impressive in-built navigation or you can just use your smartphone mirroring. Shortcut there for Apple CarPlay.
02:25 Then you have your car settings.
02:27 So this is where you can change everything to do with the car, everything from your seats to the lights and how far ahead they're going.
02:33 Your suspension settings, the emergency assist controls if you're going to a racetrack or something, you can actually reduce
02:38 any assistance on the car or you can shortcut straight to that menu by pushing here and then change the level of assistance you have.
02:45 So it doesn't go off if there's other cars and stuff around you. There is a help menu.
02:49 This is where you'll find some usage tips and also the in-built manual.
02:52 So let's have a look here. Basic information will tell you how to connect your phone and all the other stuff that you'll eventually learn how
02:58 to do yourself. Swipe across, you then have user settings.
03:02 So if you have several people that drive the car, you can set up different user profiles and it will remember everything there.
03:06 You can then also assign them to keys as well as required. You have messages built into the car, also weather.
03:12 This is all via those wireless services.
03:14 And then if you swipe down from the top there, you have shortcuts for audio settings, Wi-Fi and then car profiles as well.
03:21 So beneath the 10.1-inch screen, you also have a secondary 8.6-inch screen.
03:26 This also has haptic feedback and features some of your most commonly accessed functions.
03:31 So down the bottom, you'll see heated seats, the climate controls, which you can activate after switching off.
03:36 There's a secondary menu that then brings up another context up the top for your fragrance, the ionizer.
03:42 So the fragrance will pump out nice smells into the cabin.
03:45 The ionizer will ionize the air in the cabin.
03:47 And then you can also set custom functions up the top if you do want anything else to appear in that top screen.
03:54 Now moving on to virtual cockpit, that is the digital display ahead of the driver.
03:58 This stuff has advanced so much since it was first launched. It now has super fast and super sharp graphics.
04:04 So this is your default display. You can then range through the different items. We have radio,
04:09 telephone and then navigation. What you can then do is adjust the view. So you get supersized navigation,
04:15 you get telephone with creepy images of your friends, you get radio display there and then trip computer as well.
04:22 But what you can also do is change the feel of this by going into S performance mode.
04:27 Have a look at that. You just get this space-age looking display and if I go back to navigation,
04:34 how cool is that? So you're just getting all sorts of really interesting display options.
04:38 And as you can see, everything is moving through very quickly. So that processor has some absolute grunt.
04:43 Finally, you've also got a head-up display. It's pretty basic.
04:46 It shows you your speed, navigation information and also any lane keeping assist or adaptive cruise control details.
04:52 So there you go. That is a really comprehensive in-car infotainment system. Let me know in the comments below,
04:57 do you reckon this is one of the best in the segment or do you think iDrive or MBUX is better?
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