Spotify’s Car Thing, the dashboard accent that controls Spotify for your telecellsmartphone, is now extensively to be had to shop for withinside the US, the business enterprise introduced today. The accent become first made to be had freed from price as a part of an invite-handiest restrained launch remaining April, and in October, Spotify unfolded a waitlist for humans to get their arms at the tool. Now, Car Thing goes on fashionable sale for $89.ninety nine — a $10 growth over the marketed charge in October.
Car Thing is designed to provide a greater handy manner to govern Spotify at the same time as driving. It doesn’t have a speaker, and it doesn’t have its personal information connection, so it’s basically a Spotify far flung that may output on your automobile’s speakers. It gives a mixture of bodily controls, a touchscreen, and voice controls thru Spotify’s personal “Hey Spotify” assistant, and it calls for each a Spotify Premium subscription and a telecellsmartphone with a information connection to function.
As nicely as confirming a fashionable release for the tool, Spotify says it’s operating to convey a night time mode and a new “upload to queue” voice command to the tool with destiny updates.
$89.ninety nine receives you the Car Thing itself, in addition to mounting hardware and a charging cable to plug it into your automobile’s USB socket (if it has one) or an protected 12V adapter. The tool doesn’t have a chargeable battery, so it desires to be plugged in continuously for power. The Car Thing connects to a telecellsmartphone thru Bluetooth, after which you may both run an auxiliary cable among the Car Thing and your automobile or have your telecellsmartphone linked on your automobile thru Bluetooth.
In its testing, Spotify says it discovered humans with Car Thing listened to the carrier greater at the same time as of their automobiles and that it made the system simpler for them. But while my colleague Ashley Carman attempted the tool out remaining year, she discovered it wasn’t a first-rate deal higher than her current answer of getting her telecellsmartphone set up to her dashboard.
