Tech review: Carpuride W708. Play music from your phone to your car with Apple Carplay/Android Auto 

Thanks - fixed it now. It's because the Carpuride people asked me to use the words Apple Carplay and Android Auto so I had changed my original title.

Glad I could help

Fun memories indeed :) But they grow up too fast. She'll be off to Uni in September, so I'll have noone to make fun videos with :(

@@CurryKitten Adam is currently doing his GCSEs. Then he is leaving his school and off to Brooklands college to study forensic science.

Nice - my daughter is still loving hers. I wish she would use the audio cable so I don't have to listen to 9 seconds of hiss every time I get in it

I have the same Clio. It has onboard Nav with Android Auto, but no Carplay. Where/how did you place the Carpuride unit? Maybe you can even provide a foto? Thanks!

Why are people calling me father-in-law. if anyone's marrying my daughter, I should at least know about it ! :D

I haven't looked at any updates, but yes, we use bluetooth to use carplay on the iPhone and the FM broadcast to the stereo. For the very best quality, you should go USB from phone to Carpuride and then line out to your car stereo (if it has an input) but my daughter can be bothered with extra cables

Yes - it's turned out to be Sophie's main way of doing it as she's become too lazy to plug the phone in. You can connect by Bluetooth and via the device's own Wireless hotspot in order to communicate through it and then you have the i-Play or Airplay (on iPhones at least) just like you would if you plugged in

@@CurryKitten Nice, lots of vehicles even with Android auto or iPhone auto (what ever its called) wont do the wireless version.

The car we were testing on doesn't have bluetooth - so don't know. It's expecting a connection from an Android or iOS based phone is I think going to be the problem here. So if you could connect it to a car, would it do anything?

The mount to the dash? The suction thing, which seems very strong. The mount that you attach the screen to seems a bit weirder. I've just placed it in there and it seems ok and survives bouncing around, but according to Carpuride it's suppose to push down and lock in place

Obviously, I only got this model to test, but the hands free calls are a pretty standard feature, although the actual hands-free calling do depend on your phone having siri/google assistant as the Carpuride really just routes everything to your phone

Are/were you a boy racer? Was there any neon involved ? :D

@@CurryKitten nooooooo! no cringe lights on my car lol, I have dark tints on the rear and a powerful system and that's about it :)

No - it doesn't do much for itself. So to play a DAB radio station through it, you'd literally play it on your phone and stream it through the CarPuride.

Aha - yes. Sounds like you asked the question mid-video and then found out :D

Redundancy pretty much hits the nail on the head. But purposeful redundancy, you see, CapPlay and Android Auto basically give you second interface to your phone, while using your car. The systems move the app interfaces to screens that are easier to use while driving, usually with voice assistant, err, assistance. The interfaces are more suited to the larger screens in dashes now, but you're right, we're basically casting to dumb-ish devices in our cars. Looked at another way, you're able to use the streaming services of your choice, have always-updated maps for navigation, and utilize the voice assistant you're used to already, trained in your daily use on your phone and smart device ecosystem. You'll not be out-of-date, you'll text safer, with fewer points of failure. As you saw, they used multiple platforms for calling pretty seamlessly, without any fumbling in pocket or squinting at lap. (and it's much cheaper for the car manufactures, who charge for the privilege; your cell provider can gouge you even more; and you better have stuff saved to your phone on long road trips. I have mixed feelings lol)

You are not missing a thing - in some cars, or with some phones, it's not useful.... except if the laws wherever you are literally forbid you from touching your phone whilst driving... while using a screen like this is perfectly acceptable. With that car and that phone, I can't charge and play music simultaneously without something like this, and using FM radio is perfectly acceptable to listen to. If you can put up with the background noise of the car, then losing quality isn't a big deal.

@@GhostRyderFPV My smartphone does all of this and has even more ways to stream audio. Plus, with a nice mount for your phone on your dash, it gives you the stable platform. I can text with my smartphone via voice, the user interface is Android Auto, if I choose it to be, and if I use Waze it will allow me to stream music of my choice while inside the Waze app and it will work with bluetooth too. With a 7" screen, and my phone being about 6.5", there's no meaningful difference there. If it had a 10" screen, we're talking a different beast all together! But, this is essentially my phone with no ability to make phone calls from this car stereo, but it can when connected to my phone. It simply doesn't bring a single thing new to the table! lol

Yeah - doesn't work for you, I get that. But if you don't have the right smartphone, or the right stereo - that's where it becomes useful.

@@CurryKitten I get it! Perfect for FACTREE stereo systems! :)