Welcome to Tech in the Car this is a 2021 audi e4 facelift model it had a load of changes i'm
going to take you through them and take it for drive in this video don't forget to smash the
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so let's have a look at the audi virtual cockpit now i can scroll through the settings this is in
the dynamic mode so i can get my satellite view i can get my phone view i can get my media view and
my driver assistance and then computer efficiency settings consumption and date and time up here so
that's nice and cool and then i can go back to this wider screen look here with my satellite
view so that's what you get in the dynamic mode now what i can do is i can go into the settings
and i can change what i show another virtual cockpit here don't want to change it and now
we have the classic view and now again i can scroll through now we've got the speed and
the dyno in the circular format like you would be used to normally and we can adjust the size there
which is really interesting to do and again i can change the map information by pressing the button
on the side there and then we can configure that as well so we can go into here and we can show
what's on the side so do we want the driving time distance traveled let's have the date in
the middle there let's have the average time in the middle there we can change all of that so it's
really really intuitive the ability to change fuel tank level right in the middle there so that's
nice and easy to do we can go with sport if we change it now and now we have our sport dials
and with sport dials i'm able to again do exactly the same thing it works exactly the
same way i can go between the various settings i can configure them again average speed
consumption and then lastly back to dynamic as it was when we started this and i can configure
all those things again i like the dynamic view of myself the most i think it looks the coolest
that is a virtual cockpit very easy to use very customizable it's probably still the best virtual
display for the driver controls that anybody has better than any other car manufacturer let's look
at android auto now android auto looks like you would expect it to we've got our maps view here i
can move it around i can change the positioning i can ask google questions so i can say okay google
how do you say audi is amazing in german in german you would say audi is unglablish
so you can get it to translate for you if you're on the other side of the world or in
another country and then we can go out we can look at our overview here we have access to
settings in android auto now as well which is on your phone and you can adjust the notifications
access settings on your phone screen resume media show weather and turn on sound from notifications
as well and then of course we can go back into our music and we can choose whatever
we want so we can go to spotify and we can have a look at our spotify playlists
and we can go through them and listen to music just like you would expect you'd be able to
with android auto so that's android auto let's now have a look at carplay carplay exactly the
same now there are some differences here you might have noticed in fact with android auto and
apple carplay on the bmw i looked at android auto was wide screen so you had the maps on half the
screen and the other half was your album art and your date and carplay even on the bmw m5 was just
the same as it is now with a massive screen with just much larger logos so android auto
did not have that widescreen version on this car even though it's got a 10 inch wide display
so that's an interesting difference between audi and bmw does it affect its usefulness no it's got
the same functionality i liked it i'll be honest with you and say i felt like carplay on the bmw
m5 looked a bit stupid because icons were so large it was like looking at an ipad and it just didn't
look quite right i think it looks better like this slightly smaller screen having said that i would
never choose to have a smaller screen i'd always rather have a larger screen so this is what it
looks like you've got again access to everything that you would expect you've got your maps on here
and you can move it around and you can zoom it and it will come in in a second and give us 3d as well
and then we can go back and we can go into our music and we can see our albums and our playlist
and it works exactly like carplay would be expected to work this interface is exactly
the same so that's carplay and android auto so what do i think about this car it's a fantastic
car it's got all the latest technology if you spec it i'd strongly recommend a 360 camera but really
it's up to you to decide what works best for you i'm giving you the information which hopefully
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