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by magicalhippo 401 days ago
My Renault Megane e-Tech is basically this[1]. Well it's a 12.3" screen but if you're in the UK you can get the one with the smaller screen. Not sure why you'd want that though.

Anyway, it runs Android Automotive, but supports Android Auto and CarPlay as well. My SO uses the former exclusively and it's on as soon as she gets in the car, can't imagine it's any different for CarPlay.

If you run the Automotive shell, you can have a media widget at the bottom which can be set to radio, shown here[2], I listen to DAB that way.

It also has a row of physical buttons for the important stuff, like climate control, defrost and such. Media and volume controls are on the steering wheel.

[1]: https://www.carmagazine.co.uk/car-news/first-official-pictur...

[2]: https://cdn.automobile-propre.com/uploads/2021/09/megane-ren...