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@@ -13,23 +13,36 @@ and Gearslip renders that template natively on the car screen. Nothing is mirror
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the phone. For apps without a car interface, Gearslip offers a separate screen-sharing
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mode.
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| Apps sorted by kind. A check marks the ones that work. | Vela Maps navigating, with the player beside it. |
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| ViVi Music in Gearslip's player. | A new message, read aloud at a tap, over the map. |
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| The weather, your next event, and what you missed. | Browse the web while parked. |
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## Features
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- **Phone calls.** Dial from a keypad, or search your contacts, then confirm before the
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call goes out.
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- **Navigation.** Gearslip hosts real Car App Library map apps on the car screen; Organic
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Maps and OsmAnd both work today.
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- **Navigation.** Gearslip hosts real Car App Library map apps on the car screen.
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Organic Maps, OsmAnd, and Flitsmeister work today. Vela runs, with rough
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edges.
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- **Music.** Browse, play, and queue tracks from a car-enabled media app, with a Now
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Playing view, an Up Next queue, and lyrics.
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Playing view, an Up Next queue, and lyrics. Type a search, and apps that accept one
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play the best match.
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- **The web.** A browser template with its own on-screen keyboard, for anything that
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doesn't ship a car interface of its own.
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- **Weather and the day ahead.** A dashboard screen shows the week's calendar next to
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the current and coming weather.
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- **Messages.** New messages appear as a small card on the car screen. Gearslip reads
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each one aloud, and you reply by voice or with a quick reply. Speech runs on the phone,
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so it needs no Google account.
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each one aloud, and you reply by voice or with a quick reply. Music pauses while
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Gearslip speaks or listens. Speech runs on the phone, so it needs no Google account.
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- **Notifications.** Only messages, missed calls, alarms, and reminders interrupt you.
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The rest wait on the dashboard.
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- **Your apps, your order.** The launcher groups apps by kind: phone, maps, music,
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messaging, and the rest. Press and hold an app to move it.
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- **Car controls.** Steering wheel buttons, control knobs, and D-pads all work.
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- **Themes.** Choose flat buttons or skeuomorphic ones that look like real keys.
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@@ -48,7 +61,7 @@ mode.
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- **Some apps refuse Gearslip.** Spotify, Waze, and Google Messages use a version of
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Google's car library that accepts only Android Auto itself. Spotify still plays through
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Gearslip's own player.
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- **For now, Gearslip works with cars from before 2020.** Newer head units reject its
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- **Gearslip works best with cars from before 2020.** Some newer head units reject its
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certificate.
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- **Calls use the car's Bluetooth,** as they do in Android Auto. Pair the phone with the
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car to hear calls through its speakers.
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