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Old 05-21-2014, 02:26 AM   #594
Orisai
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Originally Posted by Unus Mundus View Post
Thanks I'll look into the Parrot units. At a glance it looks to be not as desirable as this one because it is a little older and has no physical buttons. I'm assuming they have steering wheel controls but that's obviously not useful to me unless I install them. Not too sure about the knock-offs since they're still a few hundred bucks but I'll see what they're about.
Parrot Asteroid headunits are Android 2.3 (which is soon to become obsolete) running on A8 single-core processors and 512 MB DDR2 RAM. The user interface in these units are way too restrictive and you can only install Parrot-approved apps through their in-house App Store.

If you want a true Android experience like in the Ca-Fi, you have to root and hack the hell of it to get basic things such as Google Play running.

Now, as for the knockoffs, if I were you I'd stay with the Ca-Fi. It may be a bit more expensive, but their integration of non-Android hardware specific to car stereos is way better than any of the knockoffs, as it's done into the operating system itself.
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