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A few months ago, I took a look at the 2021 Buick Envision, which now supports wireless CarPlay as part of the Buick Infotainment System offered by GM. I’ve been a fan of GM’s infotainment systems for a while now, as I find they have an intuitive, modern interface that keeps things simple and comes closer to replicating a smartphone feel than systems from many other manufacturers.
I’ve subsequently had a chance to try out another GM vehicle with wireless CarPlay, and that’s the 2021 Cadillac Escalade with its high-end OLED Infotainment System, an all-new system that bears essentially no resemblance to other current GM infotainment systems.
Hardware and Native Infotainment
Cadillac markets the Escalade as having an industry-first 38 inches of curved OLED display in front of the driver, although this is actually made up of three separate displays: a 16.9-inch infotainment screen, a 14.2-inch instrument cluster screen, and a 7.2-inch “control panel” screen to the left of the instrument cluster. The setup is standard across all trims of the Escalade.
Native Audio app with SiriusXMAll three screens are curved OLED displays, which makes for vivid colors and outstanding contrast with deep blacks. Cadillac says the screens offer twice the pixel density of a typical 4K television, and they certainly do deliver sharp text and graphics.
All-digital instrument cluster
The design of the triple-display layout is such that the screens taper off a bi
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