You can play Spotify or Apple Music, stream Audible, listen to iHeartRadio, SiriusXM, and basically do anything else that you can with your phone - as well as all sorts of other Alexa-oriented tasks like checking your email, making phone calls, or accessing your Smart home accessories through voice control. As an Echo device, it’s essentially Alexa in a box, opening up pretty much everything that the Spotify Car Thing can do and maybe a little bit more.
The Echo Auto is probably the closest comparison that can be made to the Car Thing. Be sure to drop us any questions in the comments below! 1. But, as we mentioned, the Spotify Car Thing is as ambiguous as its name - and is, quite literally, its own thing. Nonetheless, we cover a few close counterparts and a couple Car Thing alternatives you might want to consider, looking at where they excel and where they fall short. The device does shine, however, when you ask the voice assistant to start a playlist, and it registered those commands easily.Ĭarman also notes that currently, Car Thing requires a data connection because it can only stream audio, although Spotify did not rule out a future update for accessing any downloaded content.Down below, we run you through the closest devices out there in terms of functionality to the Spotify Car Thing. I generally felt like I could more efficiently navigate Spotify just by using my phone at stop lights.
When a song that I didn’t like played, it took longer to say, “Hey Spotify, skip” than it would have to just tap the skip button on my phone. The voice controls mostly worked - for some reason it only got tripped up on a Kid Cudi request - but I grew frustrated with the steps it took to control music. Ashley Carman of The Verge had an opportunity to try Car Thing for a couple of days and had this to say about the device: Car Thing, which also comes with dashboard mounting hardware, is controlled using its touch screen, programmable buttons along the top edge of the device, the knob, which allows drivers to scroll through the service’s content, and Spotify’s new ‘Hey Spotify’ digital assistant feature.
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