If you’re an automotive enthusiast of taste, you can’t stand the idea of fitting a janky aftermarket stereo into your nice, clean ride. Flashy, modern head units can spoil the look of a car’s interior ...
You can usually plug your phone into your car’s stereo with an audio cable, but why do that when you can go wireless? Here’s how you can add Bluetooth capabilities to your factory car stereo. Most ...
Bluetooth is now a standard feature in practically every modern car. Like with Bluetooth headphones, a Bluetooth-enabled car lets you stream your own tunes or favorite podcasts on your daily commute ...
Problem: You want to listen to music and answer calls from your phone while you’re driving, but your old car doesn’t have Bluetooth. Also, you don’t have an AUX or USB cord to link the two. What do ...
Wayne Cunningham reviews cars and writes about automotive technology for CNET's Roadshow. Prior to the automotive beat, he covered spyware, Web building technologies, and computer hardware. He began ...
Bluetooth does nothing new. Even before the technology was introduced, you could make hands-free calls to Mum and stream Mobb Deep’s The Infamous through your car stereo. Bluetooth’s crowning ...
If you’ve been in a new, modern vehicle before, you’ve no doubt seen the new touchscreens that they’re coming equipped with. Now, without pulling out your phone, you can very easily open up GPS ...
My partner and I just bought a car, against my better logic as a New Yorker. It's this glorious old Volvo station wagon: Buying a 13-year-old car means buying a 13-year-old car stereo, as I recently ...
Many newer car stereos, as well as aftermarket head units, come with an audio jack that allow you to plug an MP3 player or smartphone into, but if you have an older stereo, there likely isn’t an audio ...
In the mid-2000s, standardized head units were replaced by integrated receivers. Then came USB and Bluetooth connectivity. And yet, millions of vehicles out there predate these factory audio ...
While they indeed do still exist, DIN-sized in-dash stereos are really a thing of the past for today's street rods and customs. Believe it or not, just as it is with new-model vehicles, Bluetooth is ...