dasaitaAndroid 13 Car Stereo for Toyota Tundra 2014-2021 with Wireless Apple Carplay & Android Auto, 10.2" Touch Screen Head Unit, GPS Radio, 8G RAM 256G ROM, Bluetooth 5.0, 5G WiFi, 4G LTE

I paid full price for this unit!This is probably going to be a long review. For those that just want the bottom line, here it is...I like this unit, and though not perfect, it works pretty well. I like it enough that I'm considering replacing the head unit in my second vehicle with another from this same manufacturer.I bought this for my 2017 Tundra 1794, which has a JBL system. The existing stereo was basically useless. The navigation was out of date, and too expensive to update via the dealer. I'd long since switched to using my phone for navigation, and that worked well enough. But my other car, a 2019 GX460, had been retrofitted with a Beatsonic Android Auto module, and that worked so well that I got spoiled, and wanted Android Auto on my Tundra too. While Beatsonic makes a module for the Tundra, the tundra head unit has a lower resolution screen, so it would never look that great. Plus the screen was small, and I just didn't see the point in sinking roughly the same money into adding AA to the stock crappy Tundra head unit.There are many other Android head units, and they're ALL cheaper than the Dasaita. But after watching virtually every review of Dasaita's products, I felt they were the most well thought out and highest quality of the lot. From what I've seen so far, I think that was an accurate assessment. However, at the time I make that decision, the only Dasaita unit available in the 10.2" size was an Android 11 unit. I chose to wait till the Android 12 unit was back in stock. Weeks passed, and when I checked back, they had an Android 13 unit available, and that's the one I chose. I chose the 8/256G version, mostly because my plan is to copy roughly 100 GB of MP3s to this device so I can play music without having to do it via BT.I was impressed with the packaging, the included cabling and the colorful quick start guide. However, I really didn't refer to it much, since I'd seen so many YT videos detailing the install. It went smoothly, and the unit worked fine from the first time I turned it on.I'm going to go over the things I like about this unit, and the things I don't like. But first, it's important to realize how some of these things work, and to realize that some of these things are 'android' controlled, and not necessarily a reflection on how the Dasaita unit itself is built or functions. Specifically, let's talk about wireless Android Auto. I don't use Apple products, so I cannot say if this applies to Iphones. But I use a Samsung Galaxy 23 Ultra. After installing the unit, you pair your phone via Bluetooth, and then, finally, set up Android Auto. Once all this is done, Android Auto works pretty much perfectly. But realize this...the Dasaita head unit is basically an Android tablet, with all the functionality of any other android tablet, PLUS its own GPS capabilities. If you have apps on your phone, like music apps, or social media apps, they can be installed on the Dasaita just as with any other Android device...indeed, many are already installed! But it's VERY important to realize that when you have Android auto configured, it will automatically connect, and take over your Dasaita's Wifi connection. What does this mean? Well, here's an example. A couple days after installing the Dasaita, I took a trip to go to a funeral. It was several hundred miles away. And once I got to that town, I was hungry, and wanted to know if there was anyplace open that I could go to get something to eat. So, I wanted to open an internet browser on the Dasaita to search for restaurants near me. So I enabled a Wifi hotspot on my phone, and connected the Dasaita to it. But, doing that breaks the connection with Android Auto! Android Auto uses both BT AND Wifi to talk to your phone, and connecting the Dasaita to the phone hotspot took that Wifi connection away from Android Auto! But, Android Auto automatically reconnects...so almost immediately it disconnected the Wifi from the hotspot, and RE-connected it to the phone in Android Auto mode. This brings me to the most annoying thing I've found about the Dasaita so far...No matter HOW I configure the settings for Android Auto, on the phone OR the Dasaita, it ALWAYS reconnects if the phone connects via BT. The ONLY way to prevent Android Auto from starting is to shut off BT on the phone. THEN, the Dasaita will allow you to connect to some Wifi...hotspot, your home Wifi network, etc. And once connected, it works fantastic! But your phone's BT is off, so that means that the phone isn't connected to the head unit either. And as soon as you turn BT back on, Android Auto reconnects, and breaks any other Wifi connection the Dasaita had established!In most cases, I doubt this will bother anyone. Indeed, it was a week before I even noticed it, because I was using Android Auto exclusively until then. And there IS a work-around, but that leads me to the second thing that I didn't particularly care for...If you install a SIM card into the Dasaita, the issue above becomes a non-issue, because the Dasaita no longer needs to use it's Wifi connection to connect to your phone via AA. Indeed, with a functioning SIM, the Dasaita automatically turns its own hotspot on, and instructs your phone to connect to THAT, and that's how the AA connection with your phone is established. That leaves the Dasaita free to access the internet via the cellular network using the SIM card you installed! BUT...Not all SIMs work. I have an AT&T phone. And when I tried to get an AT&T SIM, I was told that the Dasaita unit was not supported on the AT&T network! What I did, which worked very well, was go to Best Buy and purchase a Mint Mobile 7-day trial SIM. It cost $2! Yes, TWO dollars. It's only good for a week, and only has 5GB of data...but it was enough to show me that it worked very well. I am now a Mint Mobile subscriber. However, I am no shill for Mint Mobile...the only thing I know about them is that they use the T-mobile network, and my wife is in love with Ryan Reynolds. That almost made me pass on the deal...but I digress. Anyway, with the Mint Mobile SIM in place, my Dasaita can do AA, and at the same time, can switch to a screen and watch YouTube, or browse the net, or do whatever else you do with an android tablet. Of course, you're a total idiot if you do this while driving, so don't be that guy. But your passenger, for example, could do a search while you concentrate on not crashing!One of the preloaded apps on the Dasaita is an app to manage some of your car's settings. In my case, you can change the way the remote unlocks the doors (one press for all doors, or one for the drivers door only, for example). But after messing with this app, I've managed to disable the lock/unlock beep on my truck, and there seems to be no way to re-enable it. The locks still work fine, and I do like having a one-press all-door unlock, so it's not all bad. But, use this at your own risk!I wish the screen had a bit more brightness...but I said the same thing of the stock Tundra screen. It's visible, but with sunglasses on, or direct sunlight on the screen, it's not always easy to see.I don't care for the stock launcher Dasaita loads on the android 13 unit. But there are many other android launchers...I use Car Launcher Pro, and it works great. You can install it via the app store, just like any other app, and it walks you through configuring it. I suspect all the other launchers are similar.Finally, there's this...In MY truck, paired with the stock speakers and amplifier (remember, my Tundra had the JBL system), there is a noticable difference in the sound. I'm old, and my ears aren't what they used to be. But I can hear details with this unit that I could not hear before. And clearly the line out signal this head unit is outputting is hotter than that of the stock stereo, because the volume is at least 25-30 percent higher. It doesn't turn the stock system into a contest winner, but it's an improvement.OK, in summation...I like this unit. It was expensive, for sure, but no more so than any other similarly capable head unit you'd buy from a brand name, like Pioneer or Sony or Alpine. Being from an unknown company from China, many have reservations, and I understand that. My opinion, however, is that this device is of above-average quality, and the accessories included with it are tailored precisely for the vehicle it's marketed for. In my life, I've installed many car stereos. This one is above average compared to all those with which I've had experience. Although I've only had it a couple weeks, I would not hesitate to recommend it. If I experience a failure with it, I'll update my review accordingly!Again, I'd like to say that I paid full price for this unit! However, if Dasaita has one for a 2019 Lexus GX460 they'd like me to evaluate, I'd be happy to oblige!!

First off, the unit is absolutely gorgeous after installation and is very smooth and functions very well. I had the larger of the two units with more RAM. The amplifier exceeded my expectations and worked really well. The equalizer app produced good results, though the sliders did not seem to be properly aligned to the touchscreen. Audio quality with the stock speakers was better than the stock head unit. I had no use for the remainder of the android app features.But, the one thing you need a CarPlay head unit to do 100% of the time and have rock solid performance, no matter what, is CarPlay.First off, there is no WIRED CarPlay. If there had been, I probably would have written off the wireless CarPlay and not cared. But, there isn't. And the only way I could get CarPlay to function is to reboot the unit, every single time I got in the truck. I just got home from a 14 hour road trip, and having to insert a pen into the little RST hole and hold it for 15 seconds every time I started the truck and wait for the unit to restart and then MAYBE wireless CarPlay would connect was too much. There were also streaming issues when CarPlay was connected resulting in degraded audio, skipping (as if it were a CD), and response lag while inside of CarPlay. I did update the head unit to the latest software release, maybe that's why everything went wrong.BTW: do NOT do a factory reset. It doesn't roll the system back to the factory installed version. It only deletes your settings and the iGO navigation app, which I then couldn't get back.The cost of the head unit was simply too great for such a deficiency in function and to wait for an update to the system software to fix whatever the problem was. I ended up returning it.Aside from CarPlay, it seemed like there should have been some pretty basic functions that were missing. For instance, I would assume you could change the volume of incoming notifications. Nope. The DING OF GOD demands answers. A way to restart the unit without a sharp object would have been nice. Since the microphone was basically crap, microphone gain would be a nice feature. There's an oddball setting in the locked factory settings for changing the microphone from internal to external. That seemed to disable both the microphone built into the unit as well as the external plug in microphone. You can change the auto-sleep settings to increase the length, for some reason, but no option to shut the unit down entirely. That option would have probably resulted in me keeping the it also as it would have at least automated rebooting the device every time. And it really doesn't take that long to boot up. And it's kind of cool to see a big ol' "ANDROID" on the dash when it does bootup.