and what's up guys today we're going to be checking out the car dongle now it's supposed
to convert uh any android auto vehicle with those dumb infotainment centers like i know
mine is pretty stupid with a simple plug and play converts into a full android computer pc
we have Play Store and apk side loaders all that so let's get into it and test it out now
what comes in the box well it's real simple this thing goes for about 99 bucks maybe a little bit
more and this is basically it we can pop out this little tray for expandable up to 128 gigs
i believe inside this look guys an octa-core cpu two or four gig ram 16 or 64 gig memory all right
so we're out in my garage i believe the only requirements needed is that you have a vehicle
with android auto and a touch screen all right let's get you set up in here let's just do a one
tap to power that on the door so we don't get that fun beeping now i have a little usb slot right
here where i'm gonna plug it in all right it's booting up glowing blue let's check the screen
automatically launched right over car dongle car pc it's booting up and there we go now i
rebooted this up once or twice got it connected to my wi-fi uh create a hotspot on my phone
you can connect it to your home or your car's wi-fi if you wanted to all right here we go we're
at the home screen and as you can see it's kind of a full-fledged android looking system now it's
uh i think it's wrapped in some sort of covering because we don't have full
controls but under here we can connect to uh our phone's wi-fi for hotspot data or connect to our
bluetooth for music and calls there's a few other settings under sound automatic volume control
touch settings bluetooth audio display you want to shut off the video over 10 kilometers an hour
clock display on video screen and change the location of android nav bar either left or right
side other settings auto launch apps on start safe touch that's interesting you can skip ads without
additional touch while watching video and then utilize mobile phone gps as map gps so this is
one of the major hiccups i guess with this is as you can see we'll go into google maps and you'll
see that it's a little sluggish sometimes now i had first gen and it was really buggy
and then they've been pushing out some updates and uh it's gotten better since then but it's
still not super like uh you know super computer speed go ahead and search go chicago illinois
there we go slowly loading in so we've got pinch to zoom multi-touch all that so that's kind of
cool could even get down to street view if you wanted but yeah so basically live gps
is not working now i think i heard that that's actually coming in some future update firmware
so maybe the hardware is built into that stick with gps currently you can use the gps on your
phone but then i think you have to download some third-party app which i don't love so what's cool
about this whole system you may wonder is like why would i want this over android auto isn't you're
doing the same thing well not really we can load tons of cool apps like waze for example a lot of
people love this over other mapping apps and i don't believe you can get that on android auto
that works kind of cool well except for the gps part but hopefully that works soon another thing
that android auto or none of those others are going to allow you except if you have like a tesla
is let's launch youtube we can literally watch almost anything you want streaming while going
on a road trip this is really cool authentic he has one or two cool videos maybe so you can see
scrolling's like pretty good it's not bad let's pull up this cool dual tron see if audio works
ah there's a net oh look at that little glitching all right let's try this one nick is up there
there we go nice it's a little pixelated as it loads up seven eight feet or something
he's gonna try to clear from just this little jump but this thing is
so powerful let's see if he can hit it and cover it all right send it
let's get that quality out how high can we do it let's do 1080 that should be good
this is the one of dual tron powerful and fastest electric scooters i've ever ridden and it might be
my new fake from authentech and the oh there we go look at that quality it's a bit better
i don't know if this is stuck on the processing power of the stick or is it maybe just my data
storm is the cream of the crop specs include 11 inch tires there we go look at that
that's great looking quality oh stink let's try 720p
we'll have motors with max speed around 52 miles per hour a massive battery for 80. hmm all right
i wonder what's going on all right well you get the idea i think if you had good enough
wi-fi data speeds you might be able to stream better quality you have netflix
uh i didn't sign in to that one i don't know if i'd recommend signing into all
your accounts on here but uh it might be fine i don't know just do your research i guess
with the play store we could even download some games let's try out angry birds
it's a little slow to start up i guess
look at that so that's kind of cool i'm playing angry birds on my uh
my old 2018 chrysler pacifica all right so that's a good example that uh i was just trying to get
to the main menus and look at it froze the gears are stuck so oh where you going so yeah the specs
of this thing it's not top tier unfortunately i mean it's pretty still kind of buggy-ish uh
other times i've had chinese characters pop up with some warning messages i don't know what
they mean there we go so here's the play store you could download or sideload apks
almost anything you can think of i searched for disney plus and uh why isn't it here i'm not sure
amazon prime video hbo max minecraft get tick-tock on here that'd actually be kind of funny and let's
scroll in while driving i bet that's real safe of course i'm joking this should only be used while
you're parked or by your passenger again i want to make sure this is clear it's getting its data
it's internet access from either your phone's hot spot or if you have a car that can create
a hotspot as well and then again if you have apps that aren't in the play store well you can always
side load those through an apk file manager that'd be pretty easy as well so that's cool
all right now let's get out of here and go back into the office for some concluding thoughts
all right well there you go so concluding thoughts is it worth 99 or 120 or whatever bucks
maybe i think you have to know what you're getting into so is it going to run the most smooth and you
want something that's totally bugless and has gps working everything well then stay awake but
if you're willing to maybe wait for some possible future updates well then it might
be worth checking out now i love the idea of having a full-fledged android os built into
my car and streaming all those apps and music and stuff like that but i think mkb and others
always say don't buy product now based upon future promises so that gps unfortunately isn't working
which is kind of essential i'm using maps all the time for navigation and road trips of course you
don't have to use it for those certain things you could jump back into android auto for maps
or use the built-in one for that but you get the idea it's a little bit rough around the edges so
it's worth checking out maybe i'll give you the link it down below thanks to those guys for saying
went over to try out and uh yeah continue pushing the envelope and trying new things i love to see
those sort of experimental products anyway thanks for watching guys and i'll see you in the next one