Parrot Launches A Trio Of Asteroids At CES

LAS VEGAS–The Parrot Asteroid Android -powered automobile stereo is back at CES , and this time it’s brought a couple of new family members.

First up is the Parrot Asteroid CK. This 3.2-inch-screened device installs on the vehicle’s dashboard, providing Bluetooth hands-free calling, A2DP audio streaming, voice order for dialing, and digital audio playback from a related iPod, iPhone, USB storage device, or SD card. You can Bluetooth-tether a smartphone or link up a USB 3G dongle, and the Asteroid CK can link up to the Internet to river song from the clouded cover or access geolocation services. The CK does not show up to be a touch-screen device and is tranquil around a tiny wireless remote control.

Next up is the Parrot Asteroid NAV, moreover a dashboard-mounted device, but this model upgrades to a far-reaching 5-inch capacitive hold shade with multitouch capability. The Asteroid NAV offers a underline set that’s identical to the CK and the initial Asteroid, but adds onboard GPS navigation, Virtual SuperBass2 and Sound Spatializer audio estimate systems, and Parrot Dual Mode (Multipoint) technology, that allows the Asteroid NAV to concurrently succeed two interconnected Bluetooth phones.

While the Asteroid CK and the Asteroid NAV setup on the dashboard and show up to daub in to the vehicle’s OEM stereo system, the third and last new associate of the Asteroid family, the Asteroid 2DIN, is a full automobile stereo deputy receiver–much similar to the initial single-DIN Asteroid. The device has a far-reaching 6.2-inch, color, capacitive hold shade and packs every pretence in Parrot’s book, inclusive Bluetooth hands-free calling, A2DP audio streaming, digital audio playback around USB or SD card, and onboard GPS navigation. Additionally, the receiver may be related to the Internet around a USB 3G dongle, Bluetooth interconnected smartphone, or unstable Wi-Fi prohibited spot. An AM/FM tuner with RDS text+ decoding rounds out this automobile stereo’s underline set.

Parrot has right away stretched its singular Android device in to the Asteroid Platform, right away 4 units burly and corroborated by an Asteroid program growth pack that allows developers to emanate geolocation, pushing assistance, meeting management, and song apps.

The Asteroid CK, Asteroid NAV, and Asteroid 2DIN will all be existing after that this year, but more definite let go dates and their particular MSRPs have not been announced. We’ll obtain hands-on time with these new Asteroid units as CES 2012 continues and we’ll obtain the initial Asteroid single-DIN section in for contrast immediately subsequent to the show.

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