Car Tablet-In-A-Box Ship This Month for GM

Intraphex’s tablet-in-a-box that you add to a car radio is now it’s finally shipping.

After two years of previews, Intraphex, now part of AAMP of America, is shipping later this month the Prodigy Pro for GM cars that turns GM 7-inch MyLink radios into Android tablets with touch screen control.

The device is a black box with a 1.2GHz Cortex A9 processor running Android 4.3 with WiFi capability; so if you use your smartphone as a hotspot, you get an Internet connection.  Users can download apps directly to the radio from GooglePlay and get any feature offered by Android. And as OnStar is rolling out 4G to its cars, soon Prodigy Pro will offer Internet without a smartphone or personal hotspot.

“GM doesn’t support Spotify but there’s a ton of Spotify users in the market. With this you can download the Spotify app and play it in the car,” said Senior Product Manager for Intraphex, Don Zaney.    He added, “You can turn your radio into one of the most advanced on the market.”

While you can get YouTube and Netflix on the unit, it has a safety feature, so that at about 3 mph, only safe apps are permitted such as navigation, music, weather and news.  Called the PPN-GM11 Prodigy Pro, it also has a digital video recorder (DVR) function and, it also connects to the car’s OBD2 port over Bluetooth so it has access to the car’s on board computer and engine data.  It is shipping now at $1,299.95.

Also, Intraphex says it also now the only company offering an aftermarket add-on navigation/backup camera interface for GM MyLink factory radios with 4.2 inch screens.  The P1N-GM13, now shipping, has an overlay to convert the factory screen to touch controls. The plug and play interface works with separate backup cameras.  It uses iGO Primo navigation and Nuance voice recognition with features including Google search and 3D building imagery and terrain.

Other interfaces are also available for GM radios with 7- and 8-inch radios for a full line of GM interfaces at $1,699.95 each.