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Bespoke email to First 86

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Originally Posted by Korey Tsuno

Attention Team 1st 86,

As you are aware your FR-S will be arriving and ready for you to drive shortly. We are sure that you are very excited to take delivery of your new FR-S and want to keep the excitement going by offer you the option of equipping your FR-S with the all new BeSpoke Premium Audio unit.

The BeSpoke Premium Audio unit will be an additional $845.00 including installation. By return, please let me know if you interested in the BeSpoke System (as a note the BeSpoke App will not be available for download until mid to late May, we will keep you posted).

Here are a few of the key features of BeSpoke Premium Audio:

Always "stay connected" with your friends while on the go (in-car)
For example - you locate your friend on the BeSpoke map at "Old Town Coffee Cafe" in Torrance.
"Direct Messages" allows you to send short messages in an open free format via Twitter.
"Send message to Mike", Mike, I see you are at an old town coffee cafe! I will swing by in a half hour.
You can use a "Routing" feature to set a destination and then it will take you to the cafe.
Mike’s reply back can be read back while in route. "Cool. See you then!"

Listen to Internet Radio stations plus Scion's original internet radio "Streaming Audio"
"Tuner2" is an internet radio aggregation service provider, which currently offers hundreds of internet radio stations. In the system, user can search not only by station names but genre as well. BeSpoke will also feature "Scion's Streaming Audio" featuring 17 channels covering genres from Metal to Reggae.

Most of operations is done by Voice Recognition - makes it easy to use while driving
You talk to your car and it not only answers, it intelligently integrates the best of the Web into its response. "Find the nearest Mexican restaurant" takes on a whole new meaning when it uses Yelp data to find the best choice, locates it on a Navteq map.

No service or subscription fee
The BeSpoke app available on iTunes (free) and no associated system fees or use charges (iPhone with data plan required)

Easy service adaption:
If an application provider falls out of favor, BeSpoke we can easily adapt or change! Imagine having an application today like “MySpace”, well you get the picture. With BeSpoke we have the ability to drop and swap as trends dictate.

From everything I've seen, it looks like Bespoke doesn't have navigation. $850 and no navigation? No thanks!

Brett

Nope just your phone has it. Weird they say it's not available though. I got the app a couple weeks ago. Honestly doesn't feel like its worth it, but maybe there's more to it than I've seen. They need to integrate more apps into it though. That's the main failure of the app radio units. They need to support all the major music apps especially spotify, cuz I'm not using pandora.

I don't think it has navigation even if you use a phone with it. I think is have routing. Naviagiton being a nice lady telling you to turn left in 100 feet and re-calculating when you screw up. Routing being google maps with a blue "you are here" dot.

Brett

I could only justify 150 for that system seriously. I can buy many small mods for that money, trd push start, leather shift knob... But its nice to hear from them though

Yeah well. It has navigation of they allow it to work with certain apps on your phone, but not the integrated app, that one is just routing.

You are right about navigation vs routing. Even the Scion docs call it "routing" in quotes.

No email for me yet but this is a definite pass for me particularly given I do not now, nor will I ever, own an iPhone.

its iphone only, paaaaaaassssssssssssssssss. Plus its unnecessary, stock audio is pretty badass already. My phone has better audio + turn by turn than a garmin unit anyways, no need to satnav in a car.

I'm goin to be skipping this too I think. Probably get one of the Pioneer radios with app support. Like Jack Hollis himself said, why buy and learns whole new tool when I already have a smart phone that will do all of thy stuff.

Brett

I was thinking the same, but really from what I've been reading the pioneer app radios arent that great either unless youre only planning on using the few apps they support. I'm still trying to figure out what would be the best alternative myself.

Did other 1st86ers get this email? I'm a little concerned I didn't receive it. Did this per chance come from your regional reps rather than corporate?

It came from Korey. He was the accessories dude we met at Scion corporate.

Brett

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Originally Posted by Dadhawk (Post 197901)

Did other 1st86ers get this email? I'm a little concerned I didn't receive it. Did this per chance come from your regional reps rather than corporate?

I didn't get the email, but then the dealer and Scion have not been that much on top of things.

Did not get that e-mail but either way, I don't think i'll get it.

i got the email. it could have ended up in your junk box if your email filter is agressive

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Originally Posted by luxmn (Post 198407)

i got the email. it could have ended up in your junk box if your email filter is agressive

Thought of that and checked. Not in the SPAM folder for the account associated with my 1st86 contact info. I'm sending him an email for clarification.

Don't really care about BeSpoke just want to make sure I'm not missing other opportunities.

I got that email about an hour after I received one from the Regional Manager saying cars should be allocated to dealers by the end of the week and they should have our VINs then.

Also, not getting the BeSpoke.

I just got the email too, def BeSpoke is nicer looking touchscreen unit I will say..

Also I think it it is more power than standard unit.

Android is to come from what I hear.

Yea, Korey resent it. He and I had a discussion about it because I wanted to let him know there were several 1st86ers that did not receive it so he wanted to re-issue.

If it had true NAV not requiring a smartphone, I'd be tempted, but the current "routing" combined with iPhone requirements (supposedly Android coming) makes it a "no want" for me, particularly at this price point.

I got the e-mail, but I'm not getting the BeSpoke. It's just not worth it. I already have a double DIN head unit that does basically the same thing, uses my IPhone as the navigation unit. I paid a whopping $300 for it, and that will be going in my car.

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Originally Posted by kmbkk (Post 203791)

I agree. The price just seems way out of line for what you are getting, in particular since it includes a credit for the stock headunit.

Getting one installed in mine today. Installed price is confirmed $845. The reason I'm buying this one rather than aftermarket is the factory look fit and finish. Other's come "close" but do not look 100% factory. Plus, this unit will allow me to continue to use the factory usb and aux cable inputs.

Why not just go with Pioneer AppRadio2?