Mitsubishi infotainment review: 8.0-inch with Apple CarPlay and Android Auto

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Mitsubishi is in a weird place with its infotainment systems at the moment. It went from having a basic, but good, 7.0-inch infotainment system across most of its cars to this larger, but worse, 8.0-inch infotainment system shared with other cars in the Renault, Mitsubishi and Nissan alliance. Paul Maric takes you through all the details, including the Mitsubishi Connect phone application/  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  #mitsubishi #review #infotainment

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00:00 G'day, I'm Paul.

00:00 Today I'm gonna walk you through a detailed review

00:03 of the eight inch Alliance infotainment system,

00:05 plus a quick look at the Mitsubishi

00:06 remote control application.

00:08 If you wanna see some of our other detailed

00:10 infotainment reviews or some of our other car reviews,

00:13 click on the playlist up there.

00:15 Otherwise, let's get started.

00:17 This is part of the new Alliance setup.

00:19 So that is Mitsubishi, Renault, Nissan.

00:22 They're part of an alliance and as part of that,

00:24 they're reducing costs by making an infotainment system

00:27 that will roll out across all of their cars.

00:29 Great idea because it means you can pull your resources

00:32 and make a kick-ass infotainment system.

00:34 Unfortunately, they haven't done that here.

00:36 So I'll walk you through what we have on display.

00:38 The outgoing system was a seven inch unit.

00:40 This is now an eight inch unit.

00:42 Start off over here with multimedia.

00:44 This is where you can pick your audio source.

00:46 DAB, FM, AM are the main radio sources.

00:49 And then you can also select from iPod, old school,

00:53 Bluetooth audio, USB audio, USB video.

00:56 There's a HDMI port there as well.

00:58 And then you also have smartphone mirroring,

01:00 Apple CarPlay and Android Auto.

01:02 What I don't like about the display here for the radio

01:06 is if you need to scroll through this list,

01:08 it's a little bit tricky to make heads or tails of it.

01:10 They've got all these random characters in there.

01:12 It doesn't appear to be in alphabetical order too.

01:15 So it kind of just all mixes up

01:17 and you need to go looking for the station that you want.

01:20 And it takes a while because none of it's in order

01:22 and it doesn't really make a great deal of sense.

01:25 If we then jump back to the home menu and go to info,

01:28 this is very basic here.

01:29 It gives you version information

01:30 about the infotainment system.

01:32 And there's also a help screen

01:33 if you need assistance connecting to the car

01:35 and also using the voice control.

01:36 So it just comes up here with instructions

01:39 on how to use the voice control system.

01:40 Now that's a problem because the voice control

01:43 doesn't allow you to just speak commands at the car.

01:45 So if I want to put in an address destination,

01:47 for example, I'll press this.

01:48 - Please speak after the beep.

01:50 - And what it does is it tells me what I can and can't say.

01:54 Instead of just interpreting my voice,

01:56 it says, no, no, you need to give me everything

01:58 in these certain orders.

02:00 That kind of makes it--

02:01 - Use the voice control.

02:02 - That kind of makes it counterintuitive

02:04 because it's not just an easy spoken system.

02:07 You can do a push and hold to then use

02:09 the voice recognition on your smartphone.

02:11 And that of course is a much smarter system

02:13 because it uses the cloud for your voice.

02:15 Speaking of which,

02:16 this is what the smartphone mirroring menu looks like.

02:18 This is Apple CarPlay.

02:19 It works with a cable.

02:21 It's not a wireless system.

02:22 And there's also Android Auto,

02:23 but we don't have an Android phone.

02:24 So I can't show you that.

02:26 Works fairly well.

02:27 It's just Apple CarPlay,

02:29 transitions between the screens okay.

02:31 Earlier on, this was quite laggy.

02:33 It seems to have sped up now over time,

02:36 which is interesting.

02:37 But it is good to see Apple CarPlay built in there

02:39 because it doesn't actually come with satellite navigation

02:41 unless you go for the top spec model.

02:43 So you're gonna have to use your smartphone mirroring

02:45 if you need navigation.

02:46 Okay, what about the phone menu?

02:47 I'll disconnect Apple CarPlay.

02:49 We hop into that.

02:50 This is traditional Bluetooth phone pairing.

02:53 So you can see your recent call history.

02:55 You can dial numbers, set favorites as well.

02:57 That all works perfectly normally.

02:59 And then if we jump into the settings menu,

03:00 this is where you'll find the rest of the settings

03:02 for the car, audio, DAB, display,

03:05 and your smartphone mirroring,

03:07 and then an ability to reset the voice control learning

03:09 because it is learning using your recognition

03:13 every time you hit that button.

03:15 Again, not a very good system, unfortunately.

03:17 The final thing I'm gonna show you here

03:18 is the Mitsubishi remote control application.

03:22 This is available on the Pajero Sport XCeed

03:24 and other high-end Mitsubishi products.

03:26 It allows you to remotely connect to the car

03:28 using the phone application.

03:30 This is just the demo screen

03:32 because this car doesn't have that feature,

03:34 but I wanted to show you what it looks like anyway.

03:36 So you can see here, you can open and close the boot

03:39 from this application.

03:41 You can also open and close the car from the application.

03:45 You can check the vehicle status

03:47 to see whether it's locked or unlocked.

03:50 You can remotely lock and unlock the car from here,

03:52 see what the windows are doing.

03:54 You can see previous fuel consumption history.

03:57 You can also find the car by flashing the headlights.

04:01 And finally, you have the ability,

04:02 if I go to the settings menu,

04:04 to configure things like how far the tailgate opens

04:07 when you press the button,

04:08 how long the reservation window is there

04:10 for it to be able to open and close remotely,

04:12 and then further information about the device

04:14 and finding your car as well on a map.

04:17 So it is an okay app.

04:18 It will improve over time,

04:20 and it's good to see Mitsubishi getting with the program here

04:22 and delivering a bit more technology in their cars.

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04:31 Also, while you're there,

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04:34 and also other infotainment reviews on our channel.

04:37 But until next time, take it easy.

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