[Android General] Toilet Paper:
Probably.

But I don't think there will be much of a noticeable benefit. Come to think about it, they probably downclocked it and added a heatsink to ensure that the chip operates fine even if it is burning hot outside and inside the car.

Probably not. I tried to use the latest version of Waze (not the one from HH), and the map is not being rendered.. my guess is that it doesn't support the OpenGL calls needed. So I think it already started.

The reality of things is that you'll be stuck with old apps, and hope that the service doesn't cut off. Honda will probably argue the following:

We don't support third party apps... and not supposed to install anything beyond Honda approved. so yea

Specs are old, because they are "deeply tested and validated" by a third party which we paid a fortune for, as we are liable if it crashes all the time and generally buggy and unreliable. Here we know all the bugs and issues of the hardware, and work around it. Fun fact: in the aerospace industry, it is far worst. They use GPUs that don't even support proper z-buffer (For readers who don't understand: this is the ability for the graphic processor (GPU) to know which object on the screen should be in the front of another in 3D space), but anyways. We also know the OS very well, and all bugs are documented and we can work around them as well, ensuring you have a solid experience (even though I had software crash personally with my HU, mostly related to Bluetooth... but it is a ****ty standard that should be scrapped and restarted from scratch to be honest... a mess would be a compliment.. it is for a reason why so many people have issues with this wireless connection)

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Well, here is how is generally works in the car industry.

You have a few factors, but mainly:

You need validation of hardware and OS, and the company that they hire to do this are obviously liable to some level, so it takes ages, as they want to be extra sure, and have every issue documented.

You have the software team that design the experience, then they ship what they need as minimum requirement (it is useless for them to say anything 'recommended" as Honda will prefer to maximize profits and go with minimum) to have everything that runs fine to the sales teams responsible to do contacts with companies to get the hardware.

And basically, the sales team would, in this case, Nvidia, and go "Hey, our sales team says we need an "Nvidia Tegra something or another... 4 or something... I odn't know computers... how much...."... "WHAT? 12$ each chip!!!!!!... are you mad? do you have something closer to... free? Oh this old chip Tegra 3?, well there is Tegra on the name... how much? 1$! BRILLIANT! Where do we sign!", and then they go back to the office telling their higher ups how great work they have done, they negotiated a 12$ chip to 1$, and get a nice bonus. Not knowing that the computer hardware industry doesn't work like the other industry, and beside final products of stuff, you normally get what you paid for as margins are fixed and small. So, now you have a HU that is out dated and slow. And car manufacture don't care until it is noted in reviews negatively to a point where it affected sales.

The good news... is that the experience we have is better than Subaru's, where they can't even hide the slowness in their very own advertising:

I would probably tear the head unit out of that Subaru after a week using this.... :)