MG HS infotainment review 10.1-inch with Apple CarPlay and Android Auto
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00:00G'day, I'm Paul. MG has launched the HS, which is an SUV, and they've offered it with a 10.1 inch
00:06infotainment system. Is it any good? Today we're going to do a detailed review, but before we get
00:11stuck into that, if you haven't seen any of the other videos on our channel, go check them out.
00:15We've got some great car reviews, some drag races and other infotainment reviews as well.
00:20Let's get started over here with the radio menu. You have AM and FM bands. There's no DAB plus
00:25digital radio in there, unfortunately. But in addition to that, you can stream music from your
00:30phone. There's also the integration of Apple CarPlay and Android Auto. It is via a cable,
00:35so it's not a wireless system. So that means you can stream music from Spotify or other online
00:40streaming platforms if you want. And then there's shortcut buttons down the bottom here to get you
00:44back to the home screen or to the car menu. Navigation is built into the screen. It's
00:49a reasonably good navigation system. It's not the fastest in the world, so
00:53I'm just waiting for it to load now. We'll try popping in Melbourne Airport, which is my go-to
00:56destination for points of interest. When it finally loads, yes, we'll accept your terms of service.
01:03So we'll move this around. Yeah, okay, so it appears to be a third-party system of some sort,
01:08but it does the job. Let's try putting in a destination and we'll choose a place and we'll
01:14just type in Melbourne Airport. Yep, okay, M-E-L-B-R-N-E-A-I-R-P-O-R-T.
01:25Alright, let's see what comes up there. Still searching, still searching. Okay, there we go.
01:30It's come up with a whole stack of results there near the airport. It's not the quickest
01:34thing in the world. You can see it lagging a little bit as I try and flick through those
01:38menus, but you can just rely on your smartphone mirroring if you do need a better navigation
01:43system. You then have a menu for your climate controls, which is located there, and then down
01:48the bottom here you have shortcuts to the phone, which is your Bluetooth system. You only use voice
01:54recognition when you have a smartphone paired, so it doesn't actually do anything outside of that,
01:59which is a little bit disappointing. It's a bit like Hyundais and Kias. The voice recognition
02:03button doesn't actually do anything until you go into Apple CarPlay or Android Auto.
02:07Now in the car menu, this is kind of interesting. So here is where you'll find all of the safety
02:12systems, but if you jump down to comfort and convenience, if the car has ambient lighting,
02:16this is also where you can set the colour. So you can flick through all the different colours that
02:21are available, and the ambient lighting around the car will change depending on what you've just
02:25chosen. You can then also have it adapt to your driving mode as well, so a lot of personalisation
02:30there, and this is the type of stuff you don't find on a lot of mainstream medium-sized SUVs.
02:35Then what you can also do is via the USB port insert pictures and have video play on the screen,
02:40and finally we have the setup menu which is all of the car's settings. So in here you'll be able
02:45to adjust all the annoying beeps that the car constantly makes, you'll be able to change the
02:48frequency that the radio works on the time, your Bluetooth pairing, and then also update your
02:54navigation straight on the screen there. So it's not the best infotainment system in the world,
02:58especially to use while you're driving, but it does the job and the smartphone integration kind
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