If you skip work and drive with the latest "smartphone-specific car goods" (GetNavi web)

Pioneer Carrozzeria has just released an interesting product. It is an item called "MVH-7500SC", but this is a new genre product that is different from car navigation and simple car audio.

When I found this product, I had an epiphany.

"Oh, if you use this, you can work in the car, right?"

Because "MVH-7500SC" can be used as a smartphone map instead of a map by setting a smartphone on the main body, you can also receive calls hands-free, and you can also use representative smartphone apps such as LINE. It can be used in a state that is easy to use in the car. Recently, I mostly work in the office, such as managing the progress of the editorial staff and checking articles for new project meetings! "But I feel like I can do this even if I'm not at the company..."

And when I saw this catalog information, I, Yamada, had another flash of inspiration.

"Oh, if you use this well, you can skip work (to the extent that it doesn't interfere), right?"

As an editor-in-chief, I shouldn't say "slacking off" too much, but when I was in the car editorial department when I was young, I enjoyed driving the latest cars in the name of interviews. However, there is no such "breather in the name of coverage" now. No, but how about this as a medium that introduces and explains items that enrich our lives?

So, if you make full use of the "MVH-7500SC", you can perform various responses as usual, and it's up to you to make a hypothesis that you can turn your work around while slacking off and taking a breather.

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Carrozzeria

MVH-7500SC

Actual selling price around 19,000 yen

Products classified as "car audio" in terms of product genre. However, it is a gadget that can be used like a car navigation system by installing a cradle that can set a smartphone in the center of the main unit and using a smartphone map application. By linking with the dedicated application "Pioneer Smart Sync", a dedicated UI that is safe and easy to use even when riding is realized. For example, the map can be operated from the physical keys on the main unit, and voice control is also possible. Of course, you can listen to the music stored in your smartphone while enjoying the high-quality sound of Carrozzeria.

An elegant phone call while walking around the Toyosu Market

Since the preface has become long, let's skip ahead and take a break. The interview day is a weekday. Toyosu Market had just opened, so I decided to take a drive around and observe the surroundings. By the way, on the company's whiteboard, there is only a rough destination and time called "Inquiry TEL".

When you get off the Metropolitan Expressway and Daiba and head for Toyosu, oh! As expected, Google Maps has already reflected the name of the "building" of Toyosu Market. This area has a map feeling that I always use, and it is easy to understand.

Explore around Toyosu Market in the form of the above picture. I had a normal impression that there weren't any tourists or media, but I got a phone call right away.

Get Navi salesman "The proposal from company ●● is coming next week, but I would like to have a meeting with the plan as soon as possible."

Yamada: I can't take my hand off right now (from the steering wheel).

Get Navi salesperson "I'm sorry I'm busy..."

No, I'm the one who goes to Toyosu Market instead of going to work. The reason why I can't take my hands off of it is because of the steering wheel.

By the way, the phone quality is very clear. The voice comes out through Carrozzeria's car audio, so it's obvious, but this sound quality is a waste on a phone! "Can I compare it to the waste of pioneer sound?" When I asked the other party on the phone later, he said that it was no different from calling normally.

Enjoying music while enjoying a siesta

Next, we headed to the parking lot of Shiokaze Park, the mecca of the car media industry. There are many people taking an elegant nap around the parking lot here. I wanted to try it once before. So, here's a siesta while reviewing the music function.

"MVH-7500SC", the corresponding music application is really wide. In addition to standard flat-rate services such as Spotify, Google Play Music, and LINE MUSIC, it also includes the Indian music distribution service Gaana. This is also "Pioneer Smart Sync", and it is displayed with the original UI, so it is easy to operate!

There are many compatible services, and the operability is high! Because it's a specially made device, it's only natural. What I personally felt here was the good sound quality. For those who have never touched car audio, this "MVH-7500SC" is the perfect model.

A car navigation system that also serves as a car audio system costs at least 50,000 yen, but the actual price of the "MVH-7500SC" is around 19,000 yen. Some people may say that it is meaningless unless you build a system such as speakers and woofers, but for under 20,000 yen, you can experience a part of the world of car audio--and use your smartphone as usual. That's the important point.

In that sense, even among those who have never touched car audio, it is a gem that I would like to recommend especially to heavy smartphone users. Listening to Tabito Nanao, I felt strongly in my pleasant sleep.

Checking the manuscript while making full use of the reading function

By the way, after enjoying the siesta, from around the evening, I checked the manuscript finished by the members and read the article from the author. A time zone when proposals fly in and confirmations fly. When Yamada is absent, the manuscript is sent by e-mail, and for urgent confirmation, send Facebook messenger or LINE message, or call by phone. I tried.

In my case, I deal with cases that are unclear if only messages are exchanged over the phone. For such cases, I will refer to materials and past emails, so if I can have a freehand conversation, the conversation will go smoothly.

Personally, I wanted to incorporate it into my regular management, but the message reading function. Titles are important for web articles, but reading them aloud gives a different impression. It's hard to understand things in formal Japanese, and things that come in smoothly with sound come into view smoothly even if they're written. Reading aloud is very important.

The accuracy of reading is outstanding, and in the dozens of times I tried it, there was not a single mistake, and it also supports reading long sentences. It's a so-called machine voice, but people these days are used to it, so there shouldn't be any problems with that.

Yamada's example is extreme, but I think you can get the same efficiency as working at a desk in a job that requires a lot of movement by car.

On the surface, it's completeness as a "skid gadget".

But just a little bit of a serious analysis...

The conclusion is, "The MVH-7500SC is an item that can do the same things as the company, even if you don't do your job."

is a real voice, but I feel like it's not enough words with just this, so let's touch a little bit on the serious side.

It is common for car supplies to adopt a design and UI that is "optimal for cars". Cars are products that can also be used as weapons, so for safety reasons, some functions are omitted, and there are restrictions on the operations that can be performed.

In other words, the interfaces inside and outside the vehicle are different, and it is natural that there is a wall, and each company is focusing on how to break down that wall.

I felt that this "MVH-7500SC" was able to break down that wall considerably. Bring your usual maps, use your usual apps, and do your usual things. It is seamless and can be used without discomfort even by people whose smartphone is a part of their body.

Personally, it would be great if you could read out emails such as Gmail!　Furthermore, it would be perfect if the text in the attached PDF could be read aloud!　I would like to continue watching how this product will remove the barrier between the inside and outside of the car in the future.