Infotainment upgrades for cars have been trending for the last 12 years now. There was a time period before that, when compatible and integrated infotainment upgrades were not available for cars with proprietary entertainment systems/screens. In contrast to that, today there are numerous options available as fully integrated infotainment touchscreens which are made with car specific parts, wire connectors and canbus interfaces to display car specific diagnostic data at fingertips.
Nowadays, connected car solutions like Apple Carplay and Android Auto are very popular, and almost all users prefer these solutions to integrated their usage of GPS navigation, Phone calls, Music playback and much more under one dashboard. Wireless Carplay and Android Auto come as inbuilt feature in most mid-level onwards infotainment upgrades today.
For Example, a year 2012 BMW 5 Series comes with pre-existing software called BMW iDrive 4 without any touchscreen option. Now, in the present day, we have Apple Carplay MMI upgrades for the existing 5 Series screen to enable new features, or even bigger touchscreen infotainment upgrades which enable a latest look BMW iDrive 8 on the old car, with full access to the older iDrive 4 menus, so the service workshop has full access to all old data and present diagnostics. So we, provide a dual integrated system with all functions of the old system, with upgrades of the latest system made for this car.