Mitsubishi infotainment review 8.0-inch with Apple CarPlay and Android Auto
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00:00G'day, I'm Paul. Today, I'm going to walk you through a detailed review of the 8-inch
00:04Alliance infotainment system, plus a quick look at the Mitsubishi remote control application.
00:08If you want to see some of our other detailed infotainment reviews, or some of our other
00:12car reviews, click on the playlist up there. Otherwise, let's get started.
00:17This is part of the new Alliance setup, so that is Mitsubishi, Renault, Nissan. They're part of
00:22an alliance, and as part of that, they're reducing costs by making an infotainment
00:27system that will roll out across all of their cars. Great idea, because it means you can pull
00:31your resources and make a kick-ass infotainment system. Unfortunately, they haven't done that
00:36here, so I'll walk you through what we have on display. The outgoing system was a 7-inch unit.
00:40This is now an 8-inch unit. Start off over here with multimedia. This is where you can pick your
00:45audio source. DAB, FM, AM are the main radio sources, and then you can also select from
00:52iPod, old school, Bluetooth audio, USB audio, USB video, there's a HDMI port there as well,
00:58and then you also have smartphone mirroring, Apple CarPlay, and Android Auto. What I don't
01:03like about the display here for the radio is, if you need to scroll through this list,
01:08it's a little bit tricky to make heads or tails of it. They've got all these random characters in
01:12there. It doesn't appear to be in alphabetical order too, so it kind of just all mixes up, and
01:17you need to go looking for the station that you want, and it takes a while because none of it's
01:22in order, and it doesn't really make a great deal of sense. If we then jump back to the home menu
01:27and go to info, this is very basic here. It gives you version information about the infotainment
01:32system, and there's also a help screen if you need assistance connecting to the car and also using
01:36the voice control, so it just comes up here with instructions on how to use the voice control
01:40system. Now, that's a problem because the voice control doesn't allow you to just speak commands
01:44at the car, so if I want to put in an address destination, for example, I'll press this,
01:50and what it does is it tells me what I can and can't say. Instead of just interpreting my voice,
01:56it says, no, no, you need to give me everything in these certain orders, and that kind of makes it
02:03counterintuitive because it's not just an easy spoken system. You can do a push and hold to then
02:09use the voice recognition on your smartphone, and that of course is a much smarter system because
02:13it uses the cloud for your voice. Speaking of which, this is what the smartphone mirroring menu
02:18looks like. This is Apple CarPlay. It works with a cable. It's not a wireless system, and there's
02:22also Android Auto, but we don't have an Android phone, so I can't show you that. Works fairly well.
02:27It's just Apple CarPlay transitions between the screens okay. Earlier on, this was quite laggy. It
02:33seems to have sped up now over time, which is interesting, but it is good to see Apple CarPlay
02:39built in there because it doesn't actually come with satellite navigation unless you go for the
02:42top spec model, so you're going to have to use your smartphone mirroring if you need navigation.
02:46Okay, what about the phone menu? I'll disconnect Apple CarPlay. We hop into that. This is traditional
02:51Bluetooth phone pairing, so you can see your recent call history. You can dial numbers, set favorites
02:57as well. That all works perfectly normally, and then if we jump into the settings menu, this is
03:01where you'll find the rest of the settings for the car. Audio, DAB, display, and your smartphone
03:06mirroring, and then an ability to reset the voice control learning because it is learning using your
03:12recognition every time you hit that button. Again, not a very good system unfortunately. The final
03:17thing I'm going to show you here is the Mitsubishi remote control application. This is available on
03:23the Pajero Sport XCeed and other high-end Mitsubishi products. It allows you to remotely
03:27connect to the car using the phone application. This is just the demo screen because this car
03:32doesn't have that feature, but I wanted to show you what it looks like anyway. So you can see here
03:36you can open and close the boot from this application. You can also open and close the car
03:44from the application. You can check the vehicle status to see whether it's locked or unlocked.
03:50You can remotely lock and unlock the car from here, see what the windows are doing. You can see
03:55previous fuel consumption history. You can also find the car by flashing the headlights, and finally
04:01you have the ability if I go to the settings menu to configure things like how far the tailgate opens
04:07when you press the button, how long the reservation window is there for it to be able to open and close
04:12remotely, and then further information about the device and finding your car as well on a map. So
04:17it is an okay app. It will improve over time and it's good to see Mitsubishi getting with the
04:22program here and delivering a bit more technology in their cars. If you found this video useful,
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