(August 10, 2013) TORRANCE, Calif. —The 2014 Toyota Tundra marks the first appearance of an improved and updated next generation of Entune multimedia and telematics system. This updated Entune system offers a streamlined hardware strategy with four audio head units packing enhanced features and capability to offer improved user interface, enhanced voice recognition, improved navigation, and easier upgradability.

For this next generation of Entune Audio, the Entune brand is also repositioned to align with customer preconceptions.  Entune will now encompass the audio area center displays tack and all multimedia functionality (audio, phone, navigation, etc), not just the apps and data services that the Entune brand had represented when launched in 2011.

Entune Audio will now be represented by a simplified four tier head unit strategy. The functions of AM/FM/CD, iPod, USB 2.0, AUX, Bluetooth,  Apps, Data Services, Navigation, HD Radio, Sirius XM Radio, AM/FM Cache Radio, Text-to-Speech, Voice recognition,  and  within the four levels of the Entune Audio banner.

The updated Entune will also offer the expanded convenience of the available Entune App Suite that adds Yelp, Facebook Places, along with upgraded HD data services with hybrid predictive traffic and hybrid weather forecast with Doppler map feature (hybrid referring to either cellular and HD data services). 



This builds upon the capability of the previous Entune system that included Bing, iHeartradio, MovieTickets.com, OpenTable, Pandora, fuel prices, sports, and stocks. Also, the Entune audio head units will offer enhanced phone contact capability with storage capacity of up to 2,500 contacts (from 1,000), up to four phone numbers per contact, the ability to sort contacts by first or last name, and an image display of the contact available on some head units.

Additional contact list and phone customization features include easier marking of contact “favorites”, the ability to adjust the sound level of outgoing calls that recipients hear, and the ability to change the view for incoming call notifications.

Toyota is also going to offer customers the Entune App Suite on a subscription-free basis. Effective immediately, Toyota customers who already own or purchase vehicles equipped with the Entune App Suite will have access to their favorite apps and not have to worry about renewing their subscription.

Visually, the next generation of Entune audio systems will include a color touchscreen ranging from 6.1inches up to 8 inches depending on the model. The new touchscreen on Entune Premium Audio with Navigation and App Suite will also offer the capability to customize the home screen into two or three sections. 

The next generation of Entune will roll out on select 2014 models over the next six months beginning with Tundra, Sequoia, 4Runner, Tacoma, RAV4, Highlander, Corolla, and Camry. The rest of the product line-up will incorporate the next generation of Entune audio at model change timing over the next year.