2021 Mazda BT-50 infotainment review Comes with wireless Apple CarPlayAndroid Au
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00:00G'day, I'm Paul. The all-new Mazda BT50 and Isuzu D-MAX have just been launched. Both of them come with a brand new 9-inch
00:07infotainment system. Today
00:08I'm going to take you through a
00:09detailed review and run over some of the features that it comes standard with. If you want to see some of our other
00:13infotainment reviews, you can click up here, but let's get stuck into this one.
00:17So it's a 9-inch infotainment unit with shortcut buttons down the bottom and those shortcut buttons go straight to navigation, destination, entry, maps,
00:26volume, audio, home, and then back. So let's jump through the menus and see what it's like. We'll start off with navigation.
00:32So this is the inbuilt navigation system. You can see that's sort of moving around pretty easily.
00:36Let's try putting in a destination. My go-to is Melbourne Airport, so we'll see how quickly it allows us to put that in.
00:44M-E-L-B-O-U-R-N-E.
00:48The suspense is killing me. Airport, and then we'll do a search on that and see how it goes.
00:56Ah, there you go. Cool. So that's come up with everything there straight away, so that's really good.
01:01Now, here is the exciting part. Apple CarPlay and Android Auto come standard, but it's wireless.
01:06So this is the first dual-cab unit in this segment to have wireless Apple CarPlay and Android Auto.
01:10I'll show you what that looks like. Have a look at this. It is a full-screen integration, so it takes up the entire screen.
01:15It's not boxed in, which a lot of these systems are.
01:18Smooth and seamless as well, and then you can use that with the car's voice recognition system.
01:23So one push of this sends commands through your phone, and it means that you're going to get higher accuracy.
01:27You can send text messages while you're driving. You never really have to take your eyes off the road.
01:30So it is exciting that this feature is going to be fitted as standard to the BT50 and also the D-MAX.
01:35Now, in terms of the other functions you have here, audio, it comes with AM, FM, DAB plus digital radio.
01:42So you have the full suite of audio controls. You can see the source list just here. Radio, DAB plus, Apple CarPlay,
01:48and then hidden in the background there, you also have USB connectivity as well.
01:51So if you want to plug in a device to the car and play music from your mobile device.
01:55Finally, we have a settings menu. In the settings menu, you can change all of the car's settings,
02:00what it does when you connect a phone, and all those preferences. Plus, you have the ability to enable Wi-Fi within the infotainment system.
02:06So that's going to be a great feature to have, and then also configure whether the camera has guidelines visible, and finally on the
02:11navigation, you can change everything from the guidance controls to whether it's going to pick the fastest or slowest route, and what it
02:17does when traffic comes into effect.
02:19So that's been your first look at the all-new infotainment system in the Mazda BT50 and the Isuzu D-MAX.
02:23If you want to see an exclusive first look at the Mazda BT50, click up here. We had a chance to get up close and personal with it.
02:29And if you want to check out some of the other videos on our channel, go exploring. We've got some car reviews,
02:33got some fun drag races, and other infotainment reviews as well.
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