Enjoy my LEXXSON Wireless CarPlay Android 10 AI Box Review. You can buy this dongle for $289.99 from Amazon US → or for £319 from Amazon UK →
So in the car I plugged the Z3 box into my CarPlay USB port. Boot up time took a little longer than expected, but soon I was in the main menu interface. From here everything is pretty much the same as any other Android OS box that I have covered already. The main difference is that there is a separate menu option to access all the dongle’s own functions – away from the main Android settings menu. And the left side dock features quick options to access the Google Assistant, enter Wi-Fi settings, check GPS connection, as well as a dedicated home and back button. And at the bottom side of the dock there are two status indicators for USB connection and Bluetooth.
There are many default apps loaded onto the Z3 Box. From Google Maps, Chrome Browser and Gmail, to YouTube, VLC and Netflix. All these apps worked fine once a stable data connection was given to the dongle. Without a SIM card slot though on this dongle, you are forced to use a personal hotspot from your iPhone or Android smartphone, or connect it to a local Wi-Fi source, such as a Mi-Fi dongle or connect it to your own in-car Wi-Fi if you have one.
This dongle supports wireless CarPlay and Android Auto, and you can also install the Android Auto app directly onto this dongle too. Wireless CarPlay took a little time to get paired, and for my iPhone to display CarPlay. It didn’t want to auto connect to the Wi-Fi profile after pairing over Bluetooth, so I had to manually enable it before CarPlay showed up wirelessly within around 5 seconds, which is a pretty good time.
The display over wireless was a little blurry and pixelated in places. There is an HD option in the settings menu, but enabling that didn’t change anything for me, and returning back to the setting, I could still see that it wasn’t enabled, so there seemed to be a bug with this option. If fixed I am sure this will improve the visual quality of wireless CarPlay on this dongle, as I have seen on other systems with this feature.
The overall display quality of this dongle felt a little low though, compared to other dongles. Maybe it wasn’t detecting my screen resolution correctly, but menus and even videos felt lower quality than other dongles and even USB media in the built-in player and also in the VLC app showed some low quality artefacts in the videos I tried.
Overall, this is a fairly average AI Box dongle for your CarPlay display. It does the job, but it can take some work to get it doing what you want it to do. Both with CarPlay and also with some installed Android Apps.
Performance wise, I felt that this dongle was a little underwhelming. Like most Android AI Boxes, unless you have a decent internet connection, this can heavily limit the speed of the apps that need it. Such as fetching location data and directions in navigation apps, login in to accounts, and fetching media content from video streaming apps. But it’s 2Gb of RAM really affected the overall performance of apps running on it, over other dongles I have used with 4GB of RAM. You also get half the storage than some other AI Boxes out there, with 32GB of storage, so there is less room for storing apps and media on this box too.
I thought the upgrade to Android 10 would bring with it some new features or some stability, but honestly I didn’t see much difference between the Android 9 dongles, other than different elements in the menu interface, which I am sure could be added to the Android 9 platforms too with software updates.
At its asking price in the UK, you can do much better. Personally I would look for an AI Box with SIM card support. Because this makes the overall experience between CarPlay and Android OS much less divided, however they all feel a little clunky in places, and that is a trait I can’t ever see overcome on these types of dongles.
———————————————————————————–
TIMESTAMPS:
0:00 – Intro
0:17 – Brief overview
1:02 – Unboxing
2:10 – In the car test
3:36 – Wireless CarPlay
4:50 – My Impressions
———————————————————————————–
MORE CONTENT & UPDATES:
Looking for more Apple CarPlay and Smart Technology content? Visit us on the following channels…
Website:
Twitter:
Facebook:
Instagram:
———————————————————————————–
EQUIPMENT IN THIS VIDEO:
If you are curious how this video was filmed and what equipment was used or the products you see around or behind me. Checkout My Setup page here →
#Android #CarPlay #Wireless
This article was gathered automatically by our news bot. We help YouTubers by driving traffic to them for free. The featured image in this article is the thumbnail of the embedded video.
