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Car Headunit / Tablet options

R0M

Newbie
Im a bit lost as to what my best option is for a in car solution.

Im getting a car with a native double din slot. Which has started this all off for me again. As id quite like to have a double din that can work with my phone or something.

Ive got a Note 3. A Pioneer 80PRS, which sounds great, 3 pre outs, which i use all of. Its more of a sound quality unit, i generally listen to music on hard drive, or via my phone, which is usually podcasts, radio apps, soundcloud, mi****** etc.

First thoughts were (ruled it out last time) something like AppRadio, but seems still very limited interfacing. ARLiberator seems to help, but has Knox issues? And then still leaves me weighing up sound quality, unless ARLiberator works on newer AVH-X8500BT or something with 3 pre outs.

Second thoughts, were a tablet in car. Which i know very little about. Seems you can either buy all the stuff to make that the actual headunit, like signal to amps etc.
Or have headunit behind, connected by bluetooth i assume? Which runs rest of system as usual ?

Is there anyway to have a tablet basically mirror my phone, just be a second screen if you like. Rather than having 2 devices, with obviously the ohone having everything i want to use on it, and worrying about trying to get it onto the tablet.

Whats my best option, to get maximum sound quality, using 3 rcas, 2 amps. Or should i stop worrying about that, and drop down to 2 rcas ? Seeing as bluetooth is lowering my quality. No idea how much vs 2 or 3 pre outs.
To also have maximum intergration and functionality.

Thanks
 
To "mirror" your phone, use a VNC server/VNC viewer pair. There are plenty of free ones in Play. You have to be on the same network dor them to work, but you can probably set up an add hoc network with the 2 devices without using a router. I haven't looked, but there may be VNC apps that can use Bluetooth.

There are also Android car radio systems. They're radios, and they run Android apps.
 
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