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Originally Posted by Go Frogs
isn't the 6.2" Starlink HU the same HU used in other Subaru models?
If so, those models will experience the same BT connectivity and sound reproduction issues as the BRZ. I don't think you are alone in your plight.
I believe that Clarion makes the Starlink HU [see link --> LINK ]
so it is Clarion you need to vent frustrations to, although, I guess in the end, it all comes down.back to the Subaru product team and their design specifications for the base head/multimedia unit.
I'm guessing faster would have equaled more expensive; however, on large scale auto production across 100ks/1Ms of vehicles those costs get minimized, but they still add up over time. ... |
I don't think it's a question of cost. I have cheap Bluetooth earbuds that only cost like $20 and they must have been designed many years ago and they connect to my phone within about a second. So that's the performance you can get from cheap, old electronics that are size- and power-constrained as much as tiny little earbuds. So there's no reason for a head unit to perform any worse than that no matter how cheap and s**tty it is. It clearly suffers from a design flaw that could probably be fixed pretty easily with a firmware update, if only they would get off their asses and put a little effort into correcting their mistakes. (Or they could make the firmware open-source and other people, like me, could correct it for them!)
Now that I think about it, my car stereo was stolen in... 2009?... and I replaced it with the cheapest possible head unit that was available on Crutchfield that had Bluetooth support... I think it cost like $60 at the time... it was a POS that didn't even have a dot-matrix display, it was still all 7-segment LEDs, and it would automatically connect to my phone via Bluetooth in like 2 seconds... so if THAT thing could do it from back in 2009, there's really no excuse other than a horrible programming flaw that's probably pretty easy to fix, except that nobody has bothered...