Given that Philips launched the Compact Disc in partnership with Sony, and the DVD alongside Sony, Panasonic and Toshiba, you might consider the company to have a good insight into what an in-vehicle Multimedia Head Unit should be. Over the years, of course, the Philips brand has become spread across multiple owners — its TVs today come from TP Vision, for example, while the Philips record label is part of Unversal Music.
The incar audio division is, with the rest of Philips audio, part of Gibson Innovations (formerly WOOX), and the level of quality achieved is evident from the moment you unpack the Philips CED1910BT. It’s a nicely simple design, with a clean and elegant fascia dominated by a 6.2-inch WVGA-resolution display (800 x 480 pixels), which doubles as a…