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Review on 🚗 Premium Android 10 Car Stereo Double Din Car Radio with GPS Navigation | Eonon GA9463B for Mazda 3 (2010-2013) | Android Auto & Apple Carplay | Built-in DSP | 9-Inch Screen by Boss Spangler

Revainrating 5 out of 5

Too slow to use directly. I mainly use it to host an Android car adapter.

I've had this unit for almost 3 months and waited to do this review until I'd used it extensively enough to see any problems that might arise. I wanted to get used to using it and then I could see what problems still exist if I haven't found a way to fix them until now. The overall concept is great, but the detail and speed are where it's at. SLOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO and it takes so long for Maps to update your location with GPS that I was able to leave the store and come back home 10 minutes before the first time before it was shown to me for the first time Parking. It's slow in other ways too. It can play Bluetooth audio from my phone for music, but most of the time it sounds like I'm playing the track in super slow motion, and then when it catches up it goes at chipmunk speed to get to the time of the Song playing the phone. . Sometimes this also happens with phone calls. SOMETIMES. That's the word I can boil it all down to. Sometimes it works great, and other times you want to rip it out of the dash and throw it in the nearest ditch. USB compatible. It comes with an adapter to connect one of the stereo's USB ports to your vehicle's USB port on the center console. The only thing is that the adapter does not fit my car. I have the tech pack and I suspect the USB cable is different from the stock Mazda 3, or maybe the included adapter just isn't the right one to start with. I contacted the manufacturer to see if I could get the right adapter and they said "you don't have to use the car's built-in USB" as if that would magically solve my problem. So now I have a USB extension cable that goes through the glove box and just hangs off the shifter to connect my Android car phone (having used a separate adapter for that) instead of coming out nicely from the USB on the center console. port.Custom system screens. The screens you've come to expect from Android, such as B. phone screen, Bluetooth settings, etc. will be hidden or overwritten by a custom screen with no functionality. Since this device is not a phone itself, it needs to be connected to Bluetooth in order to make calls through your phone. No big deal, just what I expected. The only thing is that the phone's screen where you make calls or even receive calls lacks many features and looks much older than the beautiful Android 10 UI you would expect. Bluetooth connections are also made on this screen and only work for the phone and the OBD adapter (which I couldn't get working until I could navigate to the system's actual Bluetooth settings to add it). It can run Android 10 in one form or another, but most of those custom UIs make it feel like it's running Android 4. If you want to run Android Auto through an adapter, be prepared that the calls won't work without connecting Bluetooth to the main device. There will also be a very old outdated phone call popup about Android Auto that will make it almost useless while you're on the phone.tl;dr;Slow. Outdated. Disturbed. Wouldn't recommend it.

Pros
  • Beautiful
Cons
  • Infinitely slow

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March 30, 2023
Too slow to use directly. I use it mostly to host an Android auto adapter.
November 04, 2022
Great Carplay Unit for Mazda 3. Customization Hints.