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Spotify Car Thing review
Spotify’s Car Thing is a smart touchscreen with voice control that lets you listen to music and podcasts in the car. But for $80 it still needs a phone to run and you have to be a Spotify Premium subscriber to get your hands on one, as they’re still hard to come by. Follow Lexy:…
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Lexy Savvides
December 28, 2021 at 6:35 pm
Thanks for watching! Let me know if you have any other Car Thing questions I didn’t answer 🚗
Andrew Stanley
December 29, 2021 at 1:35 am
I’ve got a 1974 mini cooper s do I have to have a 12 volt connection
Lexy Savvides
December 29, 2021 at 4:08 am
@Andrew Stanley does your car have a cigarette lighter/any plug at all? If not I guess you could still run the car thing but you’d have to power it with a USB battery pack
Lexy Savvides
December 29, 2021 at 4:10 am
@Oz Buckshank you can also contact your phone to the car stereo via USB or Aux plug if your car has that. The connections needed are: Car Thing to phone, then phone to car stereo
Andrew Stanley
December 29, 2021 at 11:38 am
@Lexy Savvides the most it has is a speedometer and a cassette player
Obi Dean
December 29, 2021 at 12:18 pm
Always love whenever you get featured as the reviewer 🥰
Lexy Savvides
December 30, 2021 at 1:31 am
@Andrew Stanley oh well, it’s a classic car, hopefully you like the sound of the engine more than Spotify 😂
Nan2Tres4
December 30, 2021 at 2:56 pm
@Obi Dean Me Too 😍 She’s awesome and Beautiful 🥰
Chasen S
December 29, 2021 at 1:51 am
I honestly don’t get this – how is this better than having your phone mounted in the similar position with Spotify open?
Nemo Ciau
December 29, 2021 at 2:14 am
People using cracked version 💪
D Ch
December 29, 2021 at 2:23 am
That is the dumbest thing I have ever seen.
Ben Grimmerson
December 29, 2021 at 2:45 am
I’ve been a premium spotify member forever and they didn’t give me a free one either.
Google has
December 29, 2021 at 2:52 am
Hi
besweeeet2
December 29, 2021 at 3:10 am
It’s a shame they couldn’t have gotten a condensed version of Android Auto to work with it.
Jonhatan Verdugo
December 29, 2021 at 3:17 am
Love the video 😀
yellowfellow
December 29, 2021 at 4:13 am
You have beautiful eyes…
Jim Jam
December 29, 2021 at 4:43 am
it’s something
shane white
December 29, 2021 at 5:04 am
Why not just use your phone? This seems useless…
motherjoker
December 29, 2021 at 5:09 am
why not just use your phone with a magnetic mount?
Thomas Zawacki
December 29, 2021 at 6:08 am
You could do the same thing by setting up a secondary screen to your phone. That’s all this thing is!
Everything Videos
December 29, 2021 at 6:32 am
I don’t listen to music that much in the car when I’m driving. I just like to hear the environment around me.
Marc Peduche
December 29, 2021 at 6:36 am
why not use your car bluetooth and pair your phone?
Nyankana
December 29, 2021 at 8:34 am
I am assuming for some people, it’s too difficult to simply buy a car mount, mount their phone, and open the Spotify app on their smartphone. This got to in the top 10 most useless accessory ever made.
TurboJobo
December 29, 2021 at 9:22 am
What car model is that she was driving?
Grizzlyx9
December 29, 2021 at 9:51 am
this broad is listening to M DOOM. gangsta
Chris Cuthbertson
December 29, 2021 at 10:24 am
Just buy a cheap phone, and put a big SD card in it and then just leave it in the car just for music playback, connect it to your main phones wifi hotspot.
Anthony Samuel
December 29, 2021 at 11:40 am
I just mount my phone
teeshirt
December 29, 2021 at 12:51 pm
Thank you for your review, @Lexy! I’ve been looking forward to it. And were you an infomercial actress before? Your acting is a little too on point! 😅
Lexy Savvides
December 29, 2021 at 10:03 pm
🤣
Wes R.
December 29, 2021 at 2:08 pm
Yeah, glad I passed after they cancelled the free promo.
Desu VR
December 29, 2021 at 5:38 pm
I’ve been using Spotify for years and I don’t see the problem this is supposed to solve. It doesn’t have an AUX jack so better to just get a new head unit instead and connect the phone to that via Bluetooth. This is just adding more clutter and complexity.
Cxy Baby
December 29, 2021 at 9:36 pm
Bro. It sounded like she deadass said MF Doom…
Robert Faulkner
December 29, 2021 at 10:19 pm
I don’t think I’d bother with that I just get a Bluetooth for my car if I only had a CD player. I had to do that for my older bmw, and another thing you would have to leave the ignition key in the start position to listen if parked in your car, which isn’t good for long periods of time. Bluetooth btw is only 20.00 vs 80 and you can use your phone apps for various uses, especially maps, also listen to youtube, which I think has the best sound!
aj ashford
December 30, 2021 at 2:34 am
What’s the point? Lol
Kevin Hargraves
December 30, 2021 at 3:18 am
Just use your Phone and save $80…duhhhhh.
anthony williams
December 30, 2021 at 3:54 am
Extra props for MF Doom, and Joey Bad@$$
J V
December 30, 2021 at 4:07 am
Okaayyy Joey Bada$$ 🔥 0:48
akui88
December 30, 2021 at 7:58 am
“older vehicle, like i am”
-drives a 2015…
lady, i am in a 1999 toyota camry…
NileshR12
December 30, 2021 at 1:27 pm
You could invest that $80 to get Apple CarPlay & Android Auto so you get navigation in your line of sight of you don’t already have or use a phone mount for your dash, windshield, or air vent
TheDiamondGoldMine // GabrielTDGM
December 30, 2021 at 1:53 pm
There isn’t any point of owning this. There isn’t. I don’t see how useful this thing is for $80. I would rather just use a car stereo installed on the car that has Bluetooth instead of this thing where the only function of the device is just…. playing music from Spotify and nothing else.
Jose Calderon
December 30, 2021 at 3:39 pm
This thing arrived a little too late
Zydrunas Lescauskis
December 30, 2021 at 4:22 pm
I just got an idea. Fitbit Versa 2 has a feature to store a Spotify playlist and play it through your headphones. I’ll sync my Fitbit with my car’s head unit. Voilà.
RiGo
December 30, 2021 at 8:28 pm
Yes! MF Doom! R.I.P.
Sinwoo Yoo
December 31, 2021 at 3:13 am
what is going on in SF?? smash grab?? what’s that??
Kevin Sandu
December 31, 2021 at 5:33 am
what a strange device, it needs your phone to function. it needs to be a standalone device. Otherwise whats the point?
STILL IRISE
December 31, 2021 at 5:41 am
@ 4:20 props for playing MF Doom.
Metaforically Speaking
December 31, 2021 at 6:15 am
Perhaps Mount an old android and that kinda would be a better solution
Omar Al-Azzawi
December 31, 2021 at 6:39 am
This is really pointless I just mount my phone connect through radio and use Android Auto on my phone it’s basically same Android auto on the new cars but much faster zero distractions
Peter Wilkinson
December 31, 2021 at 7:29 am
lol
The Eagle
December 31, 2021 at 9:00 am
It in my 2012 civic I’ve used echo auto for awhile and love it, I was curious about car thing but seeing I didn’t it for free I’ll stick with echo auto that does so much more
Bryan Asto
December 31, 2021 at 11:01 am
I have android auto lol just ordered this two days ago for no reason. We’ll see how this goes
Also she has good taste in music lol
Wessam Hamadneh
December 31, 2021 at 11:09 am
Tbh I’d get this
Jim Vasquez
December 31, 2021 at 3:23 pm
Should have a micro SD slot
jim liu
December 31, 2021 at 4:07 pm
So why not just attach your smartphone to your dash vent (using a $~20 Kenu) ?
Aminu Hashim
December 31, 2021 at 6:27 pm
Did i see fela kuti ??
Nathan Milkie
December 31, 2021 at 9:11 pm
I signed up & put myself on the list to test out the Spotify “Car Thing” as soon as the sign ups became available, but alas, Spotify did not send me a unit to test. This was quite disappointing & discouraging because for the past few years, “Spotify Wrapped” has said that I spent more time listening to Spotify, than 99% of all its users. Surely, if I was in the top 1% of time spent using Spotify, the team at Spotify would send me a “Car Thing” to test, knowing that it would be thoroughly tested & put through the “testing gauntlet”, so-to-speak. I guess Spotify only sent the test units of “Car Thing” to well-known people on the internet, knowing they’d make videos about the device for millions of people to see. Sad Days & Sad Times. (LOL, JK) I love how the team at Spotify has improved the overall use & functionality of Spotify. Keep up the great work.
elk80
December 31, 2021 at 9:26 pm
I’m a little confused, between your phone and the car thing, which one Bluetooth connects to the car stereo? And what does your phone connect to?
Santiago Fontana
December 31, 2021 at 10:21 pm
This would be much more useful with Google Maps / Waze.
SpaceXplorer 16
December 31, 2021 at 11:18 pm
I like the name, Car thing.
Diana Meunier
December 31, 2021 at 11:37 pm
I bought one of these for xmas after I signed up for the notification from Spotify. While my car is a 2016 and has bluetooth capability, I find that for whatever reason the spotify off my android phone runs like garbage. Not just in the car, but on the phone as well. (very laggy, crashes alot). Not sure why and no one can seem to tell me why and Im running the current versions of android OS and Spotify app. I figured just having a device hooked into the car (even though it runs off the phone data) would be better. My hyundai though has no good area on the dash to mount it. I have it on a vent right now and its a bit clunky. But conncted fast and plays well.
Matthew Xiang
January 1, 2022 at 8:10 am
What’s the point if you still need your phone to connected by Bluetooth? Why can’t you just control Spotify via the phone?
Ola Sogaolu
January 1, 2022 at 12:00 pm
I see thumbnail “Adekunle Gold” I click, I like 😄
Mustafa Mehraab
January 1, 2022 at 12:23 pm
I don’t have bluetooth in my car
Chris Rahman-Mair
January 1, 2022 at 2:10 pm
$80 And you can’t use it for maps?! Lol nah I’ll stick to my phone.
Prashanth Rao
January 1, 2022 at 4:47 pm
The most useless thing I’ve seen in a minute.
Kamodomon
January 1, 2022 at 4:47 pm
Yeah, I kinda agree there’s potential here. My biggest issues that it’s JUST for spotify, so the voice issues and UI lag is completely unacceptable for $80. Sure, if it did more than spotify I can see a bit of lag for the price, but it’s a dedicated device. Just… no. And the point about losing cell reception and maybe needing some offline music playback is a good point for longer road trips.
M P
January 2, 2022 at 1:24 am
Ah the accent. My accent fluctuates between more Australian and more American. It does seem to confuse Digital Assistants.