Driving under the influence of a cellphone is as dangerous as driving drunk. What can we do, now that music is migrating to the smartphone? It’s a pressing issue, because as much as 80 percent of music listening happens in the car, by one estimate. Well-heeled music fans might consider a new car with dashboard-level integration…
We won’t spend much time on this review, because PlayNow (free or $1, with no apparent difference between the two versions) is extremely simple, and we don’t much appreciate what it does. An extremely barebones music player for the car is hardly a terrible idea. PlayNow’s approach is to put one play button in the…
TuTuneMe is one of the more expensive music player apps for the car we’ve seen on our long quest to find the best ones — but in this case, you get what you pay for, thanks to a full suite of easy to use gesture controls, access to all your playlists and podcasts through a…
CarTunes, one of the apps we’ve examined during our extended look at “safe driving” music players for the iPhone, boasts a clean interface and simple controls that make it easy to play songs stored on your iPhone. It’s simple, but it also lets you import playlists you’ve created in iTunes, an important feature that’s missing from…
All car music apps are designed with simplicity in mind to some extent, because the whole idea is that they keep your eyes on the road, rather than forcing you to use tiny buttons and extensive menus. Chilli X’s PlaySafe ($1) is no exception. The app is of the “don’t switch horses midstream” variety, in…
Car music app BigPlayer offers up three big, simple buttons for play, fast forward, and rewind. Other than some other niceties described below, that’s about it. The advantage: there are no fancy swiping gestures to remember. The disadvantage: You might need to look at the phone every once in a while, because even though the…
FlickTunes is a fairly barebones car music player with customizable gesture controls. The price is right, but the app is mired by some strange choices by its developer. The controls in SoGeeky Software’s FlickTunes ($1) differ from those in similar apps; swiping up or down handles play and pause, while two fingers up or down handles…
