After nearly a week of waiting (which was a bit “torturous” due to high expectations for the new version of the car system), on the evening of February 16th, while I was running, I suddenly received a text message from LanTu. At first glance at my phone’s locked screen, I thought it was an OTA 3.0 upgrade message. Finally, I opened my phone to confirm that it was indeed an upgrade notification – I had finally received OTA 3.0.
I had not yet finished my planned run of 3 kilometers, but I headed home immediately anyway, parked my car “FREE” on the spacious side of the street in order to quickly download the upgrade package. After turning the car on, I sat inside and stupidly stared at the screen for a while. Nothing happened. I guess it was time to say goodbye to the old car system version. During this process, I shamelessly got out of the car and took a cool picture of FREE on the street. There was also an interesting interlude when a handsome guy walked past the car and circled around FREE a few times. It was obvious that he was attracted by FREE’s cool style! After 40 minutes of waiting, I finished driving out of the garage and went to eat dinner, and then got back in the car to get the reminder to upgrade. It felt great to upgrade; after one hour, the car system was smoothly upgraded and the new experience began.
The expected Cloud Listen app, voice adjustment of the power mode and driving mode, more user-friendly improvements to the navigation, card design, and LingDong Island… there were too many changes to need my explanation – many car owners have already published very detailed usage experiences. After driving for one day, I had three initial feelings:
Firstly, the intuitive feeling – the UI interface is more beautiful, more rounded, more comfortable, and more free. The software’s custom features are fully utilized, and the positioning of the product towards user-oriented enterprises is closer, making people feel like they’re improving to a higher level. The mood is starting to become more and more “beautiful” as we use the car system. For example, the display interface of the air conditioning and the menu interface of the settings, etc.“`
Two is the functional experience, more intelligent, such as more voice interaction functions (adjusting power and driving modes), without the need for active navigation, the main interface can directly display the estimated time to navigate home or work, and cloud listening provides more audiovisual options across the country (this is what I am most looking forward to, especially CGTN and HIT FM radio). Oh, and the sound quality of Kuwo Music has improved, which should also be attributed to the significant improvement of the car machine.
Three is the driving experience, safer, such as no need to bury your head to manually switch driving modes and power modes during the driving process, just shout! just shout! During the navigation process, when using other APPs, you don’t have to worry about covering the navigation page, because the car machine has a flexible island, and when you use other APPs (such as during a call), the navigation prompts will be considerately displayed.
In the past few days, driving has been a very pleasant experience, which truly confirms the spirit of “the more you drive, the newer you get”! I believe that there will be many surprises and gains in the future use of the car. Let us start a new journey with the 8155+3.0 version of the car machine and grow together with Run图 Company!
Finally, two incidental tips: one is to give a thumbs up to the Chengdu delivery center. During the waiting process, I also consulted them in the group about not receiving the message. They patiently answered and made the user feel warm! The second is a phenomenon, that is, recently I have seen more and more Run图 FREE and Dream Family on the streets of Chengdu. As an old car owner, I wish Run图 a great sales year in 2023!
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This article is a translation by ChatGPT of a Chinese report from 42HOW. If you have any questions about it, please email bd@42how.com.