SJOYBRING Double Din Car Stereo Compatible with Voice Control Apple Carplay - 7 Inch HD LCD Touchscreen Monitor, Bluetooth, Subwoofer, USB/SD Port, A/V Input, AM/FM Car Radio Receiver, Backup Camera

This thing is awesome. Inexpensive but great sounding. Lots of customization options including the button colors so that it can match your trim. They will also send you custom wallpapers and startup images if you email them or contact them on Facebook. Support is WONDERFUL and super responsive. I’m not a car person and I was able to remove my old stereo and install this myself when my Volkswagen infotainment center failed. I was priced $3400 to install a new Volkswagen infotainment center. I’m so glad I went with this, installed myself, and saved over $3000! My car is a 2016 Volkswagen Tiguan and I did have to buy a wiring interface to connect but once I did it worked wonderfully!

I installed this in a 2004 Dodge Ram truck. Took out an old pioneer CD player. Bought the accompanying dash kit and wiring harness and this thing hooked right up. Love the volume knob on the side and the interface is super easy to use. I emailed the company and they sent me the updated firmware and the Dodge Ram logo that I uploaded in a couple minutes and that was really easy. One important thing, if you want the initial start up screen and the wallpaper to show your cars logo, you need to tell them that. The first time I just said send me the wallpaper, after I installed it it still said the name of the stereo at the beginning and then eventually it showed the car logo. I emailed them to ask about why it wasn’t at the very beginning and they said you have to ask for that, so they sent me a new file that did both the initial start up and the wallpaper. There communication was awesome!Overall very happy with this product... I can't believe this thing was under $150! Total game changer for my truck. Took maybe 1.5 hours to install but I could do it again in probably 30 minutes. Dash kit took a little bit of figuring out. Having Apple Car Play is huge! Now I have WAZE maps on my dash instead of on my phone, spotify works awesome, and this thing is bluetooth so now I can answer my phone from the unit and talk through unit's microphone and hear people in my truck's speakers. This thing moved my truck way up to 2020!Couple other items of note...The side brackets take some trial and error when screwing them onto the unit and making the unit sit flush with my dash kit. You just have to keep adjusting it and I had to snip off some parts of plastic on the side brackets and make a couple other small adjustments inside the dash that you'd never see.My screen looked like it had a protective film over it with some bubbles but I couldn't tell if that was the actual screen or it had a cover. I emailed them and they said the protective film could be removed... so happy those bubbles weren't on the screen!Sound quality is much better than the old Pioneer CD player! I did not hook up the backup camera yet because I need to figure out what hole to poke it through to the underside of the car.

I got this unit mostly to make my 2012 Jeep Patriot have more modern radio functionality (Apple CarPlay/Android Auto). The unit functions pretty decently for a radio at this price point. The touchscreen isn't as snappy as most modern touchscreens, but it functions well enough. The sound quality sounds just as good as my stock radio, but it does have a better EQ system than the factory radio. Also, you will loose the ability to fade (front/back) if your car has a factory amplifier. This is true for all aftermarket radios, however. You also can only use CarPlay/Android Auto via the front USB, not with Bluetooth. The CarPlay UI functions well. The system's own UI, however, is just okay. It can be a bit weird to navigate through, but you can get used to it.I've yet to install the rear camera, so I cannot fairly review that part of the system.I do wish they would provide an easier way to update the unit's firmware, wallpapers, and boot logo. You have to get in contact with them directly via email or Facebook for them to update these. They do not have a website or anything of that nature that could readily provide this resource and information. I do think this should be something the customer should be able to do by default. However, their customer service is helpful. English may not be their first language, but everything was well understood.This is a decent unit if you want something simple to update an old radio. You may have to tap into some technical skills if you have installation issues, but that's nothing on the radio itself. I have install my own car radios in my teens and early twenties, but that has been over a decade by now. You will need a harness for this install unless you plan to cut OEM wires (not recommended).Note: I did have to buy a harness with an additional interface that was compatible with my car as my Jeep had the Boston Acoustics premium sound system with a factory amp. The interface is needed to provide the 12 volt power without cutting into my OEM cables (usually the cigarette lighter) and to retain steering wheel functionality.I did have issues with the first interface I bought from Metra, who abandoned me partway through troubleshooting. The issue was that my audio was cutting in and out intermittently every 5 or 6 seconds. I think their interface was faulty, but they never responded after I provided them the requested information. Ended up installing an interface from Scosche and it worked fine. Wouldn't recommend Metra based on the customer service if you go this route.The SJoyBring team, however, was willing to refund me for the radio even though the issue wasn't their fault. I kept the unit until I was able to properly resolve the issue. They did keep in contact with me via email on the entire process. So kudos to them for that.Update 01/12/2024:I have experienced the unit freezing on me a few times since owning it, some instances where I can't reset the radio without turning off my car (cutting its power source). This has happened at least 3-4 times since purchase. Depending on your tolerance for this kind of inconvenience, I would say do look for something a little better. I'm still running it, but I am looking for a replacement. I'll probably look into purchasing from an established brand on their budget end.

Finally got around to installing this in my '05 Porsche Boxster.A caution to other Porsche (987/997) owners: if you get the Metra 911 dash kit, this stereo will NOT FIT in that kit without some extensive dremel work to the Metra kit. It’s just a few mm too wide. I had to dremel off the stereo’s trim attachments as well. It’s not the fault of the stereo. I just didn’t measure before I bought.The unit itself is your straightforward double DIN/half depth common with modern head units that don't have CD drives. Comes with just about everything you'd expect, including a backup camera, but no external mic. I'm guessing there's a mic on the face but the instructions don't say anything about one. I just know it it works for Hey Siri activation and BlueTooth audio calls. People on the other end say they can hear me just fine. I did not hook up the backup camera, because I am lazy.ProsPhysical volume knob! And physical buttons for next track/previous track. Honestly the fact it has a physical volume knob and CarPlay were the two reasons I bought this unit.CarPlay works great. Screen response is a little laggy compared to the built-in unit in my Buick but it's fine. Despite no external microphone, AND the fact that it's a convertible, apparently people can hear me just fine on calls, as well as Hey Siri activation. Granted, that's with the top up, but I have no expectation that any unit would work with the top down so I haven't tried.My Boxster came with the Bose speaker system, which was more work to get working than your average system (and still has an annoying alternator whine, which is NOT this head unit's fault, it's just the dumb Porsche wiring). When driven by this head unit, it sounds phenomenal. The original Porsche system was meh, but that's because I had to listen through an FM transmitter. Now, with a proper head unit with BlueTooth/CarPlay, and a 16-band EQ, this thing sounds incredible.ConsThe instructions are pretty minimal, which, whatever. Most things are very intuitive anyway. Uses ISO wiring colors.I wish it had wireless CarPlay, but alas it does not. So when I want my maps up, I have to plug in a cable. Such a first world problem, I know.Despite having customizable boot logos and wallpaper, there is no available tool or instructions on how to do it. You have to contact the company and send them what you want, and they'll send you back the files to do the boot logo. That seems completely unnecessary. Just give me a simple tool to do it myself, or even better, just let the thing accept your standard JPGs or PNGs and have a way to copy them to internal storage from a USB stick. That said, they got back to me with the boot image within a couple days (it was the weekend) and it looks awesome.The screen is decent but kind of dull, and a little laggy in the interface. In an enclosed cabin it's probably fine, but in an open top convertible it gets a little hard to see in the sun, and in direct sunlight you won't see anything. Just the nature of a convertible.Overall I am pretty happy with the unit. The sound quality is quite stellar, assuming your source isn't an mp3 from the late 90s. With my higher bitrate tracks, it has some fantastic clarity and staging. Definitely recommend as an upgrade from a stock system.

What an upgrade. Granted, I upgraded a stereo from 2007, so it is a giant leap in features. I purchased this to upgrade a 2007 Ford Mustang GT Shaker 500 6-disc stereo w/ satellite radio. I was lucky in that the factory stereo worked fine, no wear, but it was finicky with the CDs.. but who uses CDs any more? The satellite radio antenna had failed years ago, and I never used it anyway. I always jacked my phone into the aux port and I use apple maps / waze to goI had to purchase the wiring harness adapter for my car, an antenna adapter (surprise, Ford uses a unique connector), a microphone, a 6ft USB extension cable, and a full kit of heat-shrink tubing. I took a few minutes to wire the individual wires from the harness adapter to the wiring harness from the radio and used the heat shrink tubing to seal the connections. With that prep work done, I removed the old radio. The brackets that came with the new radio when installed on the radio were far too small for the opening, but a good bend of the brackets and some adjustments made it work solidly. I was being cheap and not buying a separate bracket specific to my car. But, it worked.Installed, there is a very slight gap around the factory opening in the bezel. As you can see from the photo, it looks fine to me. I wired in the included backup camera and the microphone. Everything powered up fine.The installation was generally straight forward. The only hiccup is the bracket alignment which took a couple of tries to get it aligned with the front facia. If I were to change anything, I would ask for a USB port on the BACK of the unit so the USB extension cable could be hidden away vs the way I have it routed today. I live off the USB because I connect my phone to use carplay.Note: this radio does NOT have wireless carplay.The bootup is rather quick and obviously not as instantaneous as the factory radio. The screen responsiveness is smooth, and the settings are easy and intuitive.The default sound quality is extremely tinny. You MUST use the equalizer to fine tune the sound to your ear.Carplay takes a couple of seconds to recognize the phone, but it works seamlessly. I do wish I could play the car radio and display maps from the phone at the same time, but that is not possible.The stereo offers the ability to change the background from one of 4 installed backgrounds. You cannot add or change existing wallpaper on your own. However, their support team will do that for you and provide you with new firmware. I prefer having that control myself, but that isn't possible. The team was extremely responsive and provided me with new firmware to include the boot logo you see in the video and my custom wallpaper background.I've had it installed for less than a week. I'm very happy with it so far!