Car Play Radio

[Adam4868]

Not even sure I've labeled this right ?
Anyway daughter has bought a car...with help from myself 😁
Nice 2010 polo,only thing is she wants the apps and stuff from phone in the car,sadly it's only the original digital stereo...not good enough for my princess !
Has anyone tried one of these screens that plug in and I'm guessing mirror your phone?
Such as this...
10.26" Wireless Carplay Screen 360 Rotation 4K Dash Cam Carplay & Android Auto Car Stereo Car Audio Receivers with 1080p Backup Camera GPS Navigation/Mirror Link/Voice Control/Siri : Amazon.co.uk: Electronics & Photo https://share.google/qGh23BL5TAKLmwtUA

 

[midlife]

We have this in our cars but built in. The Android phones don’t get on100% with Apple car play which is in the car

I’d check if Apple or Android phone and buy something that is best with one or the other if that makes sense.

 

[fossyant]

If the car has an aux input you should be fine with one of those screens. You might be able to upgrade the head unit.

 

[wakemalcolm]

Looking at the 7" item on Amazon, is the device really that much larger than a typical Android phone screen?

 

[Adam4868]

If the car has an aux input you should be fine with one of those screens. You might be able to upgrade the head unit.

Yea she wants to do that....I sort of think it's a shame as original radio.
But what do I know !

 

[Psamathe]

she wants the apps and stuff from phone in the car,

Why?
You can't use those apps whilst driving (safely/legally).

Play music/podcasts from the phone through the car "radio" (don't need a screen for that). Even navigation apps announce turns or mount the phone somewhere.

My phone is important to me when driving, always for music, occasionally for navigation and I do both without anything special but with a standard single DIN (small) old style car radio with a single line text that scrolls horizontally.

I have set my phone to announce text messages, e-mail subjects and similar messages and they automatically mute the music and announce the message and resume the music. That's a phone function irrespective of "car". ie if vitally important I can pull over when safe/convenient and deal with it. Same cheapo old style car radio also does hands-free voice for accepting incoming calls (outgoing calls need to pull over when convenient as it means looking at and tapping screen).

Or course if she needs to be tweeting/X'ing/Facebooking, etc. whilst driving then she'll need the full blown car phone screen thing. Safe? Legal?

 

[fossyant]

If it has a 3.5mm audio socket you can get a Bluetooth unit that will enable connection for phone and music.

 

[Psamathe]

If it has a 3.5mm audio socket you can get a Bluetooth unit that will enable connection for phone and music.

Apparently they work well. My brother used one for years in his previous car. He considered changing it but his solution worked well so no point. He uses navigation a lot as well. Often "bells & whistles" can default to being appealing but also often useful to consider what you actually need something to do and maybe why you need that and is it really useful and safe.

Many phones (except I only know iPhones) switch mode automatically in a car into a car mode anyway where it holds back many notifications not judged urgent so as to not distract you from driving. Can be disabled (I disabled it on my phone as I enable the announcement features so not distracting).

 

[fossyant]

Apparently they work well. My brother used one for years in his previous car. He considered changing it but his solution worked well so no point. He uses navigation a lot as well. Often "bells & whistles" can default to being appealing but also often useful to consider what you actually need something to do and maybe why you need that and is it really useful and safe.

Many phones (except I only know iPhones) switch mode automatically in a car into a car mode anyway where it holds back many notifications not judged urgent so as to not distract you from driving. Can be disabled (I disabled it on my phone as I enable the announcement features so not distracting).

We have one of the 3.5mm converters for the Aygo. They work really well. Ugreen from Amazon.