Originally Posted by snagitseven

I was at CES and have been following the info on both systems. While it would have been nice for Apple owners had Audi decided to support Car Play with Siri integration, I doubt they will remove the already existing Apple support via AMI which works fine with the current MMI tech. From what I can see, there will be very limited app support via Car Play and having Apple map data on the screen instead of the existing NavTeq maps is not necessarily a step up at this point.

In any event, the voice control that Audi provides is pretty decent and as I stated, I find I can control most functions hands free now w/o having to operate through a different voice system like Siri. And if I want to use Siri, I can do various functions now, i.e. speak and hear messages, I simply tap my Siri button on the iPhone through the MMI sound system. Not as elegantly integrated perhaps, but functional.

Originally Posted by idale

My 2009 Odyssey had a terrible touchscreen, and the nav technology seemed even older than Audi's already-old system. Much prefer the Q5's system, other than I do miss being able to use voice to dial arbitrary numbers on the rare occasion I need to (unless I just haven't found how, looks like you can only call contacts via voice here).

And of course the "touch" MMI refers to the touchpad control and not an actual touchscreen, so if you liked directly touching the map, buttons, etc., then you still wouldn't get that here. But it should be more intuitive than the joystick, and adds handwriting recognition (not sure how "useful" that is in practice), not sure what else.

EDIT - The one nice thing about the Honda nav was that it was standard yearly DVD-based updates so you could update the nav (or not) each year instead of effectively never. That still seems pretty silly.

Originally Posted by Reggie

Funny that technology in navigation and radio/music will become more important than the car itself