Review on 🚗 JOYING 8 Inch Double Din 4+64GB Android 10.0 Car Radio with IPS Detachable Touch Display - Support 4G SIM Card, 5Ghz WiFi, FM Radio, GPS Sat Navigation & More! by Wagner Witlin

I bought this unit to replace a 2016 Kenwood mid range touchscreen stereo in my 2001 RAV4. I've never owned anything Android (typical Apple user) and I have to say I'm really satisfied. I went with the 8 inch screen for obvious reasons. My 20 year old car. Also, it doesn't block any vents or controls, but only protrudes half an inch from the dash for easy access and control. Looks a bit anachronistic, but in a good way. The screen is excellent. Looks clean, unmarked, with a metallic finish. Not too thick, with decent bezels (though a bit thick by today's phone standards). It works very well. Fast, responsive, sensitive, bright, everything is good. The sound is pleasant to my ears. I didn't bother with the equalizer as there was no need for it. I put foosball speakers in the door and a bazooka in the back. No hiss at zero volume like my Kenwood. It gets loud enough (I didn't have to check how loud it is - although someone at the YouTube booth tested it with an oscilloscope and it looked very good electronically). Since Carplay streams music over Wi-Fi and not Bluetooth, I think the music is less compressed and sounds better to my ears. This head unit makes listening more comfortable than my previous one, that's all I can say. Wireless carplay works great. There is a setting (under the extensive menu-in-menu settings) that launches the Carlink app on every launch. The phone finds the device and they connect for a moment, then Carplay opens as the home screen. I had an issue where I turned on the setting to allow the head unit to scan for Wi-Fi and the call quality and Siri's voice were messing up and becoming hoarse and inconsistent. It took me a while to find this setting and enable it (had to search for the issue by its symptom and found an EV site that talked about this setting in VW which resulted in carplay crashing the same way) . One thing I've found difficult, although I have a workaround, is how to adjust the volume from the screen. I have a small cup holder on the steering wheel that I keep in the center console and use to control the screen. But without it I still don't know how to change the volume as there are no physical buttons on the front and all my games with swipe and gestures didn't lead me to it. Now that I think about it, is there a sound icon somewhere, maybe I just didn't use it. The steering wheel control function is really good on this head unit. On my Kenwood I had to use an Axxess SWC device to translate the buttons into the device. Programming was painful. Joying has a dedicated menu item for this, and its controls are so diverse and easy to understand that I was able to ditch the Axxess and plug my steering wheel control receiver straight into the head unit. It handles the translation and the controls are cleaner and more reliable than before. There's also a menu item to keep the device in sleep mode after turning the key off, reducing boot time to a few seconds. I love this feature. In the morning I think it's a long charge, but after the drive every time I get back in the car it does a short charge and goes straight to Carplay. Good. It has speed compensated volume control powered by GPS, which I really like. Instead of plugging it into a hard-to-reach wire in my 20-year-old car, it works with no issues. Although I don't see the volume control on the screen, I believe it works. Set to "Low" - this is the rate at which the compensation works, not the amount of compensation. There are a number of other quite useful features that I've never seen in head units from well-known brands. Android functionality is great. If you don't like the original interface, download a new launcher of your choice. Widgets aren't really my thing, but the customization is great. I did a lot of research to find out that this Joying does everything (plus a few things) I wanted as an Apple user. At first I was afraid to delve into the world of non-US brands' Android head units, which are still relatively expensive, but my experience is really good. Worlds above what I knew from previous head units. Still reasonably affordable. Not exactly cheesy in the native interface. All in all, do your own research and see. But wow, I am very happy with this Joying. It seems that the major manufacturers of car radios underestimate their products and inflate their prices. This sets the bar pretty high.