Aphqua 10.26 Inch Car Stereo for Apple Carplay & Android Auto, Car Play Screen with 2.5K Dash Cam Front and Rear, Loop Recording/GPS Navigation/Mirror Link/FM/AUX/Bluetooth/64G TF

OK, here goes for a longer than usual review.The Aphqua (a.k.a. “Newest” and “Carpuride”) is made in China and the exact same device is sold under different brand names. I guess that’s why the marketing dept’s of these sellers have produced rubbish instructions and even, as in my case, provided incorrect customer support! Hopefully they’ll improve these sometime soon, including publishing in multiple languages.The good news is this is a terrific gadget. Now I understand it I can absolutely recommend it. You will, however, need to know the following:1. It does not incorporate a radio tuner, so does not work as a radio. However you can install an internet radio app on your phone. I loaded two; “Radioplayer” and “BBC Sounds”. These are CarPlay enabled so will appear on your Aphqua screen next time you switch on.PRO: You get hundreds of stations to choose from.CON: It's going to cost you if you exceed your data streaming allowance.2. Watch your data streaming costs across the board. Music, radio, maps, etc can all stream data over 4G, so if your cellphone bill suddenly gets expensive this might just be the cause.3. If you’re looking at the Music app screen, you’re given options, “Library”, “Playlist” or “Radio”. Don’t touch the Radio button, it will give you a silly message about being offline and has nothing to do with any radio player apps you’ve installed. Those will take care of their connections automatically.4. Don’t worry about your iPhone showing Wi-Fi “Not connected”. It is still using Wi-Fi to talk to the Aphqua and is best left unaltered.5. I did try FM re-transmit to send audio to my car radio but the fidelity was very poor. Maybe you’ll have more luck. Bluetooth or the Aux lead do, however, both work well with good fidelity. If you use Bluetooth, make sure Aphqua and your car radio don’t simultaneously try to handle phone calls; that might rule out the Bluetooth option.6. I asked customer support to email me a new start-up logo of my own design. They obliged promptly and it worked first time. Just remember to delete the boot_logo.jpg file from the TF card after it’s been accepted onto the Aphqua, otherwise you’ll be waiting for it to re-upload every time you switch on.7. It isn't a SatNav. It navigates using whichever maps app you have on your phone (probably Google Maps).8. Do note that the forward facing dash-cam is in a slot and can be pushed up approx 3cm above the top of the Aphqua. It also swivels so you can still get a good view of the road ahead even if you mount the Aphqua off-centre.

I purchased this CarPlay unit a few days ago, and I can’t fault it—it works perfectly. I was initially skeptical because videos of similar units often show lag, but this one exceeded my expectations. In fact, it performs even better than the factory-installed CarPlay in my partner’s car.The unit seamlessly connects to both your car’s Bluetooth and phone, so when you start the car, it instantly resumes your last song. I also reached out to customer service for help setting my car’s logo as the startup screen, and they were incredibly helpful, providing clear instructions with fast response times.The built-in dash cam works flawlessly, making this purchase even more worthwhile. I couldn’t be happier with it.

I've been using this as a secondary screen to run Waze in my car. At 9.3" It's quite a. wide screen and I couldn't find anywhere suitable on my dashboard to mount it where I didn't think it obstructed my view so I've been mounting it down in the centre at the bottom of the dashboard. This obviously renders the built in dash-cam functionality unusable but my car already has dash-cams so I'm not too bothered.In use, it plugs into the 12v cigarette lighter socket and connecting to this via CarPlay was a breeze. The screen is very good quality with good brightness. I was less impressed with the speaker which is mounted on the back which even on full volume is hard to hear over general road noise.Overall I'm pretty happy with this screen. The functionality of the screen and connectivity are great but it could be improved by making the speaker louder or making it forward facing. Secondly I doubt this is something you'd want to leave unattended in your car so I was surprised to find that it did not come with a storage bag. This means you have to supply your own or risk it getting scratched when not in use.

I have thought about changing the radio head unit in my van for a while now but the cost and complexity of doing this are pretty high. After looking at these auto connect car play units and reading the reviews from other people I decided to give one a try. I was not disappointed. The unit is great. Connects easily and automatically to my phone each time I enter the van (after initial setup). The screen is responsive with very little lag and the music sounds great too after I connected it via the Aux cable. It’s brought the inside of my van up to date. Very impressed.

Started out working great, then after 3 months car play stopped connecting to any device and another month later the cameras keep randomly disconnecting and the whole system restarts mid journey. Very low quality product

Screen works well with mirror from iPhone, now the sticker that holds screen to the dash does come off and the screen will fall off, in the heat of the sun ☀️ so I screwed two screws in to holder and it’s not going anywhere now lol 😂 remember I’m using a van so I don’t care, but if you do mmmmm something to thing about how to get it to permanently to stay on dash.

Does what it says ans quite useful but china so it's not got everything you'd expect

Installation was pretty simple once I found a flat spot on the dash it wouldn’t fall from, the screen quality is good and so is the responsiveness - no lag when swiping. At first it didn’t connect to the car bluetooth system, but after emailing the service team they sent over a file to update it and now I’m really happy with it.Sound quality on the device itself is a bit iffy but you can tweak it on aux, or use the cars bluetooth like I do and it doesn’t block the windscreen in anyway either.