So pleased with CarPlay now that they've added 3rd party nav support (ios12). Waze on the nav screen using the phones data plan is what I've always wanted, and can't imagine wanting much more. Well, no, I lied-- can't wait till someone releases a wireless CarPlay dongle for this thing!
Since all the processing is done on the phone, everything is smooth/reliable/fast.
Waze running:
If you open your phone while it's running to waze, it provides the turn by turn list so that both screens are useful:
And other features, podcasts:
Visual voicemail functions as you'd expect:
And you can browse all your music with a nice interface (album art subtly in the background):
Hopefully Harry's GPS lap timer adds support, soon!
I'm seriously pleased with my Avin now that CarPlay does all this. I think as soon as wireless CarPlay becomes a thing, all the cars will be getting these.
Can't imagine wanting any factory nav/infotainment over this, from any company in any time period. Cop locations on OE looking nav!