If you are a loyal follower of the apple brand, you will know that automobile manufacturers have been implementing the new CarPlay in your vehicle. CarPlay is the navigation system proposed by Apple itself with which you will be able to use the basic functions of your iPhone's iOS system on your car's equipment.
In order to run CarPlay in your vehicle, you must first have a system compatible with that Apple system and then connect the iPhone to it using a lightning cable. Yes, for now the system is not wireless and that is what we want to talk about today.
It seems that the Harman company has already finished implementing the new CarPlay wireless system, a system that combines the power of WiFi networks with the evolution of the Bluetooth connection protocol that has been experienced in recent years. In this way, vehicles that have this new wireless system they can connect to your iPhone automatically reducing connection times that currently exist to be carried out with a manual connection by cables in addition to the possible failures that have been registered on some occasions.
The first vehicles to enjoy this new wireless CarPlay will be the BMW 5 Series from 2017 in sedan version.
However, not only car manufacturers are going to implement this new system in their series equipment, but companies such as Alpine have already presented a new equipment at CES, specifically the iLX-107 model, a team with a seven-inch touch screen. with wireless CarPlay and that will have a starting price of $ 899.
And in the cars that have CarPlay now will it ever be possible to implement wireless CarPlay?