Hey all, I bought the Atoto A6 unit in hopes that I would be able to interface with ECU connect and be able to display gauges on the head unit, which is way better than a phone mount. I was surprised and am writing my very first in-depth product review of anything ever because there was a lack of information on google/this forum, and I would like to fill it to save other people some trouble. I was looking for a head unit and it seems that these lesser-known non-kenwood units arent documented as much. I'm surprised that this head unit isn't getting as much attention, because
I did not have to cut a single wire to get this thing to work
I purchased the Toyota/Subaru specific headunit, which accounts for the fact that Toyota head units are not true 2DIN head units. This saved me from having to buy an adapter harness. It fits right in with the factory brackets.
INSTALL
The install was very straight forward. I was able to do it in around 15 minutes.
For those of you with factory backup cameras and USB/AUX, the harness provided does not interface these. I have ordered a harness on amazon for both of these, and have not confirmed that they work yet. I will report back soon once I get these harnesses in the mail at the end of the month.
Other than the backup camera and USB/AUX, everything was pretty much plug and play.
Startup time
First boot will initialize the device which will take about a minute. After that, it starts up way faster than the factory head unit... Like 3 seconds?
Fitment
Looks OEM. see pictures below
Interface
It has a dated android 6 OS. It has a little bit of lag, but nothing that would piss me off. I'm not exactly doing any high performance gaming/shitposting on this device, so as long as pressing the play button will play music within a second, I don't mind a small lag for a cheaper price.
It is an android OS, so you naturally can customize it to your heart's content. you can do anything from changing the wallpaper and moving the icons around to downloading apex launcher and customizing the whole UI (I have not tried this yet, but it is on my list).
Bluetooth
Bluetooth works well, I am able to connect to my phone every time without issue. This device has two different kinds of bluetooth. Bluetooth 1, which is classic bluetooth used to stream audio from your phone, answer calls, and so on. Bluetooth 2 allows you to connect to low energy devices (ecutek connect, obd2 devices for torque, controls for your ricer underglow systems, etc), and connect to the phone to perform data transfer (such as bluetooth tethering). I had a bit of problem connecting bluetooth 2 to my ecutek plug, but it worked out after a couple re-trys.
Internet
Wifi works well, as does bluetooth tethering. Good enough that I can watch keiichi tsuchiya clap his 86 on a touge, and some other goodies described below
Audio
Audio is good, I'm not an audiophile so I don't notice any difference. I can switch between equalization schemes and such.
Supported applications
Pretty much any sort of audio is supported. I opted to go with spotify on the head unit. I downloaded my playlist onto the head unit. This way, I don't need to waste phone battery streaming to my head unit:
I used ecutek connect on the car, and it seems to run flawlessly. I am able to log data, send it off to my email/my tuner's email
Harry's lap timer seems to work. Haven't tried going on a track yet. I will update after my track day next weekend if anyone's interested in this
For GPS, I chose to use waze, and it works really well. Intergration with spotify works well, too. I tried the microphone out by telling waze what address I wanted to go to, and it worked out well, so the microphone works well.
And, since I know you're all wondering, pornhub works. Thank god.
Complaints
My main complaint is that bluetooth thethering doesn't start automatically. I could be wrong and have to play with it for a while more, but everytime I want to navigate or use anything that uses the internet (navigation, youtube, pornhub, you name it), I need to manually open link with my phone. This is not too bad, since 90% of the time i'll just be playing music and nothing else, and will only turn it on during long road trips.
Conclusion
If you want to watch anime in your car, have oem-like gauges in your car, want girls to like you, hate your old oem unit, or pretty much any other case, try out this unit. You probably won't be disappointed, and if you are, send it back to jeff bezos for a full refund.
LINKS
Atoto A6 Toyota spec:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0...?ie=UTF8&psc=1
Toyota OEM USB harness:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0...?ie=UTF8&psc=1
Toyota OEM backup camera harness:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0...?ie=UTF8&psc=1