Spotify’s oddly named in-car entertainment system, “Car Thing,” is now available to the general public after initial tests that began in 2019.The now $89.99 device — a $10 increase from ...

Spotify says the Car Thing will be discontinued December 9, 2024, but stranger still, it also says current users' devices will brick themselves on that same date.

Spotify has flirted with the idea of physical products in the past, but Car Thing marks its first legit hardware. Hardware has been on Spotify's radar for years -- CEO Daniel Ek once mused about a ...

Spotify has officially discontinued Car Thing, its in-car streaming device, with all units now disabled, the company confirmed to TechCrunch. Spotify has officially discontinued Car Thing, its in ...

Spotify's Oddball In-Car Music Device Is Getting Bricked. Turns Out There's an App For That. Spotify's music-streaming Car Thing needed a smartphone app to run, and is now being replaced by that ...

However, at that time, Spotify also cut the device’s price from $90 to $50, which could have encouraged people to buy a device that would be useless a few years later. Car Thing's usefulness was ...

Streaming giant Spotify unveiled its first hardware experiment this week: a Bluetooth-connected smart device officially named "Car Thing." The small music player—which essentially looks like a ...

After Spotify released its Car Thing streaming device for all Premium users last week, I've been testing it out in my 1995 Honda minivan. But I'm still confounded as to why Car Thing is even a thing.

Spotify says it's only testing the devices, making them available to a few premium users. The music streaming company doesn't have plans to make Car Thing available more broadly to consumers.

Spotify’s long-rumored Car Thing device has emerged once again—this time in some iOS code. Spotify first announced that it was testing a “voice-controlled music and podcast device” called ...

Car Thing -- a device that allowed users to access their account and play music through their car speakers -- has been discontinued, and will be unusable by Dec. 9, 2024, Spotify said.