Our Mazda 6 may not have the V6, but it is all ate up with tech options, including Bluetooth audio streaming. This lets you play music on your Bluetooth-streaming compatible phone/device through the Mazda 6's audio system. This may appear novel now, but by the time we've all got our lives on an iThing, we'll scratch our heads at cars lacking this feature. It's just audio for now, but video streaming to your nav systems display is the next stop down the planned-obsolescence highway.
We've also got the Sirius (now Sirius/XM) satellite radio option on the 6, which not only lets you rewind live content, but allows you to set up alerts across the Sirius channel lineup in case a song you really like is playing on another channel. When the song begins to play on another channel, an alert pops up on the screen, and you can push the icon to go right to it, then listen to and rewind and re-listen to that song as much as you like.
I only discovered this feature on the way home last night when an alert popped up. What song had inspired someone to track it down across the wide span of digital airwaves that is satellite radio? What tune could not be missed? The Black Eyed Peas - Boom Boom Pow.
Paul Seredynski, Edmunds ExecutiveEditor
carguy622 says:
04:02 PM, 07/ 1/09
Wow, that's a really neat feature. My car did not have those features, but I may have kept my XM if it did. As it was the sound quality was so compressed and digital sounding so I cancelled.
Did you finally get the screen fixed? I don't see the lines.
cwc1 says:
06:11 PM, 07/ 1/09
Very cool. I'd love to have that feature.
dragonflight says:
07:14 PM, 07/ 1/09
I'd ESPECIALLY love to have that on normal radio using RDS and the built in hard drive of the GPS. But I'm sure that would require a considerably more robust CPU, antenna diversity, and other components for a small marketshare that could actually figure it out..
cx7lover says:
01:57 AM, 07/ 2/09
I didn't know this had SAT playback.. spiffy
dougtheeng says:
06:04 AM, 07/ 2/09
That Boom Boom Pow song makes me want to kill myself. Pop music is awful these days.
audisport says:
06:25 AM, 07/ 2/09
Black Eyed Peas= Awful, awful music.
blobster says:
12:47 AM, 07/ 6/09
Well that's just another thing cx7lover doesn't know! Let's add it to the list.