Initially available for select US users, the new gadget’s anticipated retail price is 79.99, but is available at no cost for a limited time for those select users, with SPOT only charging 6.99 postage. He's been gaming since the Atari 2600 days and still struggles to comprehend the fact he can play console quality titles on his pocket computer. Music streaming service Spotify is making music listening hardware and its first official product release is a smart device for the car called the Car Thing. Oliver also covers mobile gaming for iMore, with Apple Arcade a particular focus. Current expertise includes iOS, macOS, streaming services, and pretty much anything that has a battery or plugs into a wall. Simply put, the Spotify Car Thing is a Bluetooth remote control for the Spotify app running on your phone. Since then he's seen the growth of the smartphone world, backed by iPhone, and new product categories come and go. Having grown up using PCs and spending far too much money on graphics card and flashy RAM, Oliver switched to the Mac with a G5 iMac and hasn't looked back. Spotify Car Thing is the first-ever hardware release from the music streaming giant, and as part of Car Things initial rollout, certain Spotify users can get it for free. The only catch is that theres still a 6.99 charge for shipping.

At iMore, Oliver is involved in daily news coverage and, not being short of opinions, has been known to 'explain' those thoughts in more detail, too. Anyone with a Spotify Premium subscription can sign up to get Car Thing for free. He has also been published in print for Macworld, including cover stories. Oliver Haslam has written about Apple and the wider technology business for more than a decade with bylines on How-To Geek, PC Mag, iDownloadBlog, and many more.

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