Apple CarPlay receivers - suggestions/comments?
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Let me add a little to this. I have had the 4200NEX for about 8months. I did not have BT in the JKU before. so I did not suffer what most say is a weird interface between the Uconnect and Pioneer. I will say, I find Carplay annoying most of the time. It is what it is, but the seamless side of apple is not there with the rest of the HU and the truck. I did run the Pioneer mic, as I didn't have one. But most will say, the stock unit is much worse anyway. Mounted mine on the bottom of my SPOD, works great, even works well topless... The I-data model is what I use for the wheel controls, and I have only had one issue, it seemed to lock up once, and required me removing the dash to get to the unit to reset it. That SUCKED! I would not get the unit for just carplay, but thats me. I often use BT to connect my phone, as the carplay is hit or miss on when it wants to do any phone operations. I am current on Firmware, and its an Iphone 8. I do find the unit very solid. Its responsive most the time, and worth the money. I do know you can use waze if you connect the phone via HDMI, but you are just using the screen as a large monitor from your phone, so it's not like using it thru carplay. Also, if you happen to have more then one BT device, the latest model has a new BT unit in it, and allows the connection of multiple devices at once. Mine does not, and it doesn't allow the use of 2 devices at one. Think, one for phone, and one for music. I would like that.