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Review on πŸš— Eincar Android Auto Car Stereo Carplay Radio with Bluetooth and Backup Camera, 7-Inch Touch Screen GPS Navigation Double 2 Din Quad Core Head Unit with Mirrorlink, WiFi, USB, SD, and Steering Wheel Control Support by Michelle Meyer

Revainrating 5 out of 5

Got all the features I wanted and more for $168.00

I think I should start with the packaging and parts. Nice packaging and no missing parts! The radio installation instructions are a bit clumsy, but typical of Chinese manuals. I've seen a lot worse, so it is. I installed this in my trusty old Jeep Grand Cherokee WJ that had a factory Infinity stereo that was upgraded to Kenwood a few years ago. I bought a reversing camera and a USB port. Replace one of my 12V cigarette lighter sockets on the console to give me 2 usable USB ports, one for Apple Car Play and the other for my USB stick full of MP3 music. They work GREAT! DEAR APPLE CAR PLAY, WORKS GREAT WITH MY NEW IPHONE SE WITH LATEST IOS. Also, I have (SWC) steering wheel controls on my radio jeep and I was able to connect these controls to the new radio WITHOUT buying anything. like Metra SWC box or similar. The steering wheel controls are so good I could have them back with the radio that I could never get my old Kenwood radio to work with it. The device has built-in GPS, so it has a GPS antenna that you need to run and mount. I had enough wire to reach the right hand corner of the windshield to mount the antenna, it works great. It also included a microphone with a very long cord so you can use voice control or make calls. Everything works as advertised. It includes Bluetooth and Wi-Fi and both work flawlessly. I love the setup you get out of the box. The radio includes car logos for your home screen. So when you power on after a cold boot, you'll see your car's factory logo scroll up the screen as it boots up. The radio also comes with a variety of background images to choose from, or you can upload your own backgrounds. The radio has a subwoofer output although I don't have one but I'm sure it will work fine. My only issue with the radio is that I have a true 4 channel amp under my back seat and accepts RCA plugs from the radio and this radio only has LEFT and RIGHT RCA AMP OUT plugs. NO FRONT/REAR/L/R. If you connect directly to the speakers and not to an external amplifier, you will have separate front/rear left and right speaker wires from the radio. I decided to connect the radio's left and right RCA jacks to my amp, using a splitter to send the left signal to both the front and rear channels of the amp, as well as the right channel. It works well but I can't control the front/back balance. The other PROBLEM I am having has more to do with an Android issue than this particular radio. to get started and usable. This radio has a sleep setting that allows you to sleep up to 2 hours. That means as soon as you start the radio from a cold start and turn the car off and on again, the radio will start up again almost immediately. However, this only happens for a maximum of 2 hours and you have to wait 30 seconds for the radio to boot up. I know there are other Android radios that offer days of sleep instead of hours instead of turning off. I'm sure this can be fixed with either an Android 10 system update or an app that controls the time in the built-in settings. The camera will work BEFORE the radio completes booting from a cold boot. So if you're in a hurry and need to back up before the radio finishes downloading, the screen will switch to the camera when you put it in reverse. So that's a nice touch and relieves the limited 2 hours. Immediate start window. All in all, hard to beat for the money. I have a factory 10 speaker Bose speaker in my wife's SRX with a cue touch screen and I think it's the best solution and sound I have in my Grand Cherokee right now.

Pros
  • I'm holding my fists
Cons
  • Sad hardware