
I generally felt like I could more efficiently navigate Spotify just by using my phone at stop lights. When a song that I didn’t like played, it took longer to say, “Hey Spotify, skip” than it would have to just tap the skip button on my phone. The voice controls mostly worked - for some reason it only got tripped up on a Kid Cudi request - but I grew frustrated with the steps it took to control music. Ashley Carman of The Verge had an opportunity to try Car Thing for a couple of days and had this to say about the device:


Car Thing, which also comes with dashboard mounting hardware, is controlled using its touch screen, programmable buttons along the top edge of the device, the knob, which allows drivers to scroll through the service’s content, and Spotify’s new ‘Hey Spotify’ digital assistant feature.
