Car Stereo with Android OS

[vulpe88]

Hi, I was wondering if anyone of you here have encountered a Car Stereo sold from China that runs on Android. The main one that I have been looking at is the Enco B046, which is a car stereo for a BMW 3 series. It has an Android OS 2.3, GPS, WIFI, 3G capable.
In the forums for BMW E46 fanatics, they have evaluated the B046 quite extensively, but no one has ever posted the ability to root or exploit the OS to either improve some of the issues that system has. I'm interested in this system because it has an Android OS, which for now seems to be under development for USB host control of peripherals. It seems there has been a lot of development in this field.
My goal is to use this B046, root it, use the USB to control a MJS SCC1 controller to get Sirius XM satellite radio.
Thanks for your input

 

[mikedt]

Android based ICE systems are becoming fairly popular in China now. Usually a comprehensive multimedia system, that can read USB drives, and has built-in sat-nav as well. Not aware if there's a big hacking community for them yet though.

Android is rapidly becoming the standard embedded OS for so many devices these days. I expect to see an Android based microwave oven and washing machine very soon.

 

[vulpe88]

The issue with the hardware being manufactured and being sold is the QA. There seems to be lack of ownership in the final product in some of the mass produced items such as the SZENCO or Eonons. As mentioned there are problems discussed in M3 cutters forum and E46 fanatics forums under Dynavin Clone heading. My thought is perhaps we could improve on them on our end.

 

[mikedt]

The issue with the hardware being manufactured and being sold is the QA.

Made in China

There seems to be lack of ownership in the final product in some of the mass produced items such as the SZENCO or Eonons. As mentioned there are problems discussed in M3 cutters forum and E46 fanatics forums under Dynavin Clone heading. My thought is perhaps we could improve on them on our end.

Guess it depends what you can do with B & C grade electronics and a probably buggy software foundation....Polishing a turd?

 

[Satires]

I'm still waiting for portable radio (Ghetto blaster) companies to step up to the plate and add things like, oh, sd card and usb slots and bluetooth capabilities!

I mean, who carries cds around anymore? Yet, we have shelves full of garbage portable stereos with cd and cassette decks.

I say, make a powerful boom box without all the extra crap and get to the point! Usb/sd card slots! Lots of wattage and BASS! Bluetooth! I don't need a cd player or cassette deck...

 

[Demache]

I'm surprised that more well-known companies like Kenwood or Pioneer haven't really jumped on this for their high end units (or maybe they have, I'm not really going to bother to check). It seems (at face value) that it would be much cheaper and quicker to take an already well established embedded OS, and customize it to their needs than to develop one from the ground up.

 

[Speed Daemon]

I'm surprised that more well-known companies like Kenwood or Pioneer haven't really jumped on this for their high end units (or maybe they have, I'm not really going to bother to check). It seems (at face value) that it would be much cheaper and quicker to take an already well established embedded OS, and customize it to their needs than to develop one from the ground up.

Actually a lot of simple things like that may still be using an ASIC or two without any operating system. Not everything needs to be run as a computer. I miss having a TV that doesn't take as long to boot as my old CRT TV used to take to warm up. That's not progress IMO.

 

[partyd]

Pioneer makes one is called appradio 2 or sphdq100

 

[Spook50]

Just happened upon this thread while looking around for an Android compatible deck for our family sedan. The factory Toyota deck SUCKS (matter of fact that's the only thing that GM really does better than Toyota, ha. Okay that and they actually sell their diesels in the US, but I digress), and since the wife and I have all our music on our GS3's and have pretty much phased out use of our iPods, we're looking for a deck that has good Android compatibility/control. Can only use a single DIN unit so the Pioneer Appradio is out.

For any of you using a single DIN deck with your Android device, what do you have and how do you like it?