Dasbor Polestar 2 get built-in browser, with Vivaldi released its application for the Android OS automotive touch screen. The new browser promises the same experience – although with a few tweaks on the name of the driver’s safety – as you get with Vivaldi on a smartphone or tablet.

This is the first vivaldi browser version intended for cars, and indeed the first browser available for Android OS android so far. There are tab exploration, support for streaming media, and desktop style features such as ad-blockers, translation tools, note functions, and tracking protection.

Fair to say modern dashboard is far from analog gauges and simple HVAC controls a decade ago. Vehicles currently usually use one or more touch screens for their main control, take advantage of the layout that can be adjusted to be squeezed in more virtual buttons than that can be accommodated comfortably in physical form. In the case of Polestar 2, it is a 11.15-inch portrait-orientation touch screen, with a secondary display for the driver’s instrumentation.

Instead of stacks of special software, because most vehicles rely on, the Touch Screen of the Polestar runs the Android automotive OS. Developed by Google as an Android branch for mobile phones and tablets, it is specifically intended for automotive purposes, and can knock deep into the original vehicle system. In Polestar 2, for example, applications such as Google Maps and Google Assistant can tap information on the state of EV batteries and the remaining ranges.

It also provides access to the Google Play Store, although it is not a virtual shelf that is relatively not limited to telephone users. Instead, Google has a list of approved relatively short software offered, intended not only to be stable and useful, but does not transfer drivers.

The potential for the disorder is something that is estimated by safety regulators. The emergence of smartphones has caused more calls to our attention, even when driving, and organizations such as NHTSA have explored ways to limit only what can be accessed by people on the road ahead.

For the Vivaldi browser, which means that access is only available when Polestar 2 is parked. If streaming content is loaded, it will continue when the EV is moved, but in audio-only mode. There are also limitations around other elements of search experience for safety, such as not allowing files to download.

As for the focus of Vivaldi’s privacy, the search for data is not stored on the car. Polestars also don’t know what you see. Entering Vivaldi account is optional; If you do it, you can access the exploration data from the car on another device that goes into the same account, and vice versa.

The owner of Polestar 2 has explored the application, and a list of supported streaming platforms tested in Vivaldi growing. YouTube and Plex work, along with Disney + and upstream if you switch to the desktop version, in accordance with the Reddit Polestar forum, even though Netflix and Hbomax are currently not.