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Over the years, android car headunits have been massively popular in the UK. We have fitted more of these than branded headunits from kenwood, pioneer, alpine and JVC. The main reason being price, android headunits are much cheaper to purchase and are all over Ebay and Amazon. You can get an decent android headunit for around £120 that supports wireless apple car play and has google maps, that supports bluetooth music playback. However, on the other hand an more expensive branded headunit will cost you around £300 or more with similar features. Today, I am going to help you make the decisions between an cheap Chinese unit and branded unit.
Firstly, android units are cheap for an reason. The parts that they are made from are not long lasting, you be lucky to get an couple of years from an android radio without running into problems. I have seen android units randomly give up after an few years, from restarting to not booting up. The touchscreen on them is very slow and laggy. The overall quality and feel seems cheap, but they do get the job done and provide you with the features you need. They have sat nav, dab radio, you can download applications onto them use Spotify and waze with apple car play. In terms of good value for money, you can't really complain if you're on an cheap budget for an headunit upgrade.
Sometimes fitment can be slightly off with cheap android car stereos because when they cut the plastic from the factory it is not always finished off the right size. In my opinion, android headunits are ok for the price, but one thing to note is the sound quality is very poor and distorts very easily at high volumes. The have cheap internal amplifier chips inside and they are not very powerful. If you are serious about an car audio sound system, android headunits are not going to provide you with quality sound output. Even if you add an car amplifier to an android headunit, the output signal from the RCA outs are going to be weak and have lots of interference.
If you have that extra cash, then save up for an branded unit. There are several makes that have an good reputation of providing good quality car audio products. Kenwood, Pioneer, Alpine, JVC and Sony provide the best sounding headunits in the market right now. They also provide an real warranty, so if anything does go wrong there is no hassle or worry about getting an replacement unit or to get it repaired directly by the manufacturer. Also they have much better sound quality, they have better DAC chips on the circuit board and well built amplifier to make your factory speakers sound better and high output RCA to provide an clean signal to multiple car amplifiers. Fitment is much better too and the screen responsiveness is very quick and not laggy.
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