Hikity Wireless Carplay Portable Android Auto Unit with 2.5K Dash Cam, 9.3 Inch Touchscreen Car Screen Display with Bluetooth Airplay Mirror Link Voice Control AUX 64G TF

*Edit_2 06/29/2023* Edit this review to change the order of the edits and to re-review this product. Original review at the end. Hikity sent me a replacement which arrived in 2 days, very quick response. The new device does just what it is supposed to do. I have used it for a few days and have had no disconnects using Android Auto. The screen is nice and responsive and the voice control works as intended. I have been using Waze for navigation and Pandora for music. As for the sound quality, I found the Aux cord worked best. I tried the FM but was not happy with that sound. It might not be the device since I live in an area where the FM band is quite crowded so finding a quiet frequency was difficult. All in all I would say this device is reasonably price and does the job just fine. *Edit_1 6/16/2023* I upped my review from 2 stars to 4 stars because of Hikity's Customer Service. Shortly after I made this review Customer Service from Hikity contacted me to try and resolve my issues with this product. They are replacing my current device with a new device. Once I receive the new device and try it out I will edit this review again. As for now I am very impressed by Hikity's Customer Service and responsiveness to resolve my issues with this product. This unit works great when it works. The screen is nice and responsive. The Bugatti on the start up screen is a nice touch. I experienced 2 issues with this device. First the sound is terrible. I tried using all the methods of connecting to the radio head in my RV, bluetooth, FM radio, and wired through the AUX port and all sounded like listening to a AM radio in a can. Since all the methods were horrible I went with the AUX method. The second and most frustrating issue is the disconnects. I am using Waze with the Android Auto connection for Navigation. It would work great for maybe an hour or so and then either disconnect completely or the screen would just go blank and still be connected. This usually happened at very inconvenient times, right before I needed to make a turn. It took multiple re-starts to get it to connect properly again. Great idea but poor execution.

So this is not exactly a factory equivalent Carplay replacement for you car but what it offers you is amazing functionality at a low cost. My iPhone being very old get overheated if I am connected to this wireless Carplay and wireless charging at the same time. That causes the map navigation and music streaming to slow down.and glitch. But when it is not overheated, it works perfectly fine. There is a slight 0.5 secs delay on the maps navigation as to your actual position on the road versus the position shown on the map. I have to use aux cable to stream music through my car's speakers which is not the greatest experience but I can always select the airplay on my iPhone to play directly through car's bluetooth which will cause me to lose voice instructions for navigation which is completely fine with me since I can always see them directly on the screen. Overall, a great product and a great addition to upgrade my old car.

I bought this for my 1981 DeLorean. Up until now, I have been using a windshield mounted phone holder for Waze and just streaming Spotify to the radio. With the way the dash is made, it was difficult to make a changes safely or even pull the phone from the mount. I have CarPlay in all of my other cars and felt it would be good for this application too. I did a bit of research, and ended up on this unit because of the size/shape and the reviews were decent. I will admit, the pics don't do it justice, but it really fits nice in the car and almost looks like it belongs. The sounds from the speakers on the unit aren't great, but its also a small unit that thin, I didn't expect much from the built in speakers. I connected via BT and the sound is excellent. I also hooked up a AUX cable to my AUX input as a back up. That said, when AUX is selected, I get a buzzing feedback, so if you're going to do AUX, I would recommend purchasing a 3.5mm ground loop isolator, which will solve that problem. I also didn't use any of the cords/wires the unit came with. I chose to hardwire mine in. I hate wires showing at all, so for the AUX cable, I bought a 90 degree, thin one so it's nearly invisible and doesn't protrude at all from the rear of the unit. I did the same with the USB-C power cable. Set up was pretty intuitive, it wasn't as seamless initially as I would have liked, but nothing that can't be figured out. After it's set up, it becomes much easier. The only thing I wish (and this is 100% personal preference) that was different on this unit, is that I wish I could reprogram/replace the start up image to something that fits my car better and I also wish I could disable/hide the features I'm not using, for example, I use Apple CarPlay and the ability to select android shows ups on the main screen. Again, minuscule things and purely personal preference. For the price, I couldn't be happier. It looks good, works well and solves an issue for a 41 year old car.

This was pretty cool and worked well but once I updated to iOS 18 it stopped working and would not connect. If there’s something I can do or find out to get it to work again than I will update the⭐️ to 5 **update 2 months later and making it a 1 ⭐️ still does not want to connect to my phone making it now useless which sucks cause I liked it , I only had it for almost a year maybe