Parrot Asteroid Moves Music From Your Android Device To Your Car Speakers [Parrot Asteroid In-Dash Receiver Gives Android Users A Way To Get Music On Their Car Stereos]

Posted on TFTS by Steve Anderson on Monday, 29. August 2011 under: Audio,Visual, Cars, Mobile/Cell Phones, Transportation Tech

Admittedly, you’ve got a whole lot of options when it comes to playing music in your car. You’ve got the radio, naturally, and you’ve got options for radios like Sirius and XM, you can transfer from your iPod or iPhone to your car stereo, and of course, you can ignore the car stereo altogether and get an external speaker attachment for your MP3 player. But now, you’ve got one more, especially if you’re an Android device user, thanks to the Parrot Asteroid.

The Parrot Asteroid is an in-dash system that offers not only FM radio connectivity, but also a line-in connection, a USB connection, an SD card slot, music on demand system, and–get this!–a voice activated music search, letting you call for soothing music in the midst of heavy traffic…or your rage mix, whichever. But it’s not just music that the Parrot Asteroid handles, which makes sense given that it works with your Android device. It can also handle hands-free calling with Bluetooth and automatic phone book syncing. Plus, it will not only allow control via an included jog wheel, but it can also handle controls for most of its functions via voice command, letting you operate your vehicle with both hands on the wheel, in the grandest drivers’ ed style. It has a 3.2 inch LCD display, an external GPS antenna, and can even connect to the web via wi-fi hotspot (if you’re in range) or a 3G dongle (if you’re not in range of wi-fi).

This may well be one of the most complete car solutions out there, and not surprisingly, it’s priced like it. You’ll be able to lay hands on one of these yourself starting in October for $349, but considering it will do just about everything except fix you some driving snacks, it’s not hard to see that one of these wouldn’t be worthwhile for the travelers out there.

But what do you guys think? Think that these would be great in your car at most any time? Or will only the road warriors manage to get the kind of use out of them that would make them worth the price tag? Either way, we’d love to hear what you think about this one, so hit the comments section below and tell us what you think!