After buying a VW Scirocco with a fairly basic touch-screen radio, i wanted to upgrade it with an android one. I like how the design looks like an original VW radio when the Pumpkin car radio turned off. Its easy to take out the old radio. The included plugs in the box connect to the android car stereo easy enough, however i did have to file some bits of plastic off the side of the radio antenna cable ends because they wouldn’t fit in my Scirocco dual-antenna connectors until i did that (not a big deal though).The touch-screen works well. I can connect it easily to WiFi using my Three mobile phone (android) as a mobile-hotspot. I think it might be nice if this radio had an actual SMA?-plug to connect any wifi antenna to instead of just a short piece of wire, because it might help wifi-range if someone is in a car park of an area with free wifi. Just a thought.
I briefly watched a gaming stream on “Twitch.tv” using an app, and resolution looks decent.
I think my Scirocco seems to power-off the radio after 10 minutes if i sit with car engine off and “car key in position-1” while i was playing with the radio. So it might be worth people adding in a switch to “override” the radio-cutoff if they want to use it without engine running. (i plan to do this).
I haven’t used this vw android car dvd gps double din much yet, but i like it, and it seems a reasonable price.
I remember back in about 2003 when there were a few radios with tiny screens that cost as much as this radio and they didn’t have anywhere near as much features as this radio. Technology has come a long way in the past decade!
–by Maf
Got this on Pumpkin US website.Took me 5min to disconnect old from my Skoda Roomster 2007 and another 5 min to fit new one in ! actually this android head unit looks more original then Skodas original radio as black matches Skodas surround bezel . As this unit pure android so installing apps like Spotify was as 123 . One of my friends told me that if he didnt know then would think this radio is original from Skoda . When I put my car in reverse little car pops up on screen indicating rear sensors as well as displaying other data like milage , engine speed . temperature . . . well pleased with this radio .
–by Aaron
Auto accessories that can work with this unit:Headrest monitor,Backup camera,3G dongle,DAB+ box,OBD dongle.
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