Do you have Android in your car? Elevate your driving experience with Car Penguin, the ultimate car head unit launcher designed to bring essential features right to your fingertips. By setting Car Penguin as your default launcher, you'll enjoy a seamless and enjoyable journey. The user-friendly interface caters to all your driving needs, including maps and navigation, media and music playback, phone calls, contacts, and much more. Car Penguin supports multiple languages, themes, and even offers a bidirectional layout to ensure an optimal user experience.
Features Summary
Customized Dashboard
Car Penguin's dashboard is meticulously crafted to provide quick access to vital features while allowing you to customize the layout and content according to your preferences. Remember, each page in the application comes with its own options menu. Simply press the menu icon (hamburger icon) while a page is open to explore its options.
Maps, Search for Places, Points of Interest, and Turn-by-Turn Navigation
Navigate with confidence using Google Maps, which displays your current location, addresses, and traffic conditions. Customize your maps with various themes and layouts. Search for places on Google Maps, save them to lists for future reference, and utilize Google APIs for precise turn-by-turn navigation. Additional navigation features include trip statistics and logging, enhancing your overall driving experience.
Playing Music and Watching Videos
Enjoy your favorite tunes and videos with Car Penguin's integrated media player. The media controls cater to local audio and video files, provide album lists, and feature a dedicated page for shortcuts to other predefined apps. You can also integrate well-known media providers as external widgets on the dashboard or in the toggle bar for added convenience.
Smartphone Integration
Effortlessly access your contacts and favorites list to make calls directly through the system's default dialer or transfer calls over Bluetooth to your cellphone. To enable features such as transferring calls over Bluetooth, syncing call logs, and SMS, you'll need to install the free Car Penguin Server app on your cellphone, available at http://carpenguin.com.
Other Features
- Car Graphic/Photo and Device Info
- Weather Information
- App Browsing and Shortcuts
- Screen Saver
- Sound Recording
- Speedometer
- Reading Calendar
- Raise/Lower Volume on Speed
- Notification and Speed Warning
