Seicane Android 8.0 Oreo Head Unit Review: What's New in 2018

0:00What's up guys, it's your boy, John back again with another video today

0:04We're taking a look at the Android 8.0 Oreo and what kind of latest features that something like this brings to the table in

0:122018 let's get it

0:15Let's look at the user interface from the home screen to you know notification bars and like that so this is the

0:24launcher it comes with very basic very clean kind of like the

0:29Just the icons are a little bit more easier they're a little bit more squared

0:34But other than that it looks very similar to the old unit here is the settings menu again very similar

0:44Can't really tell there is new new things like the settings how things are more grouped together like networks and internet connected devices

0:52So the settings are a little bit more easy to read

0:55But not too much changed the notification bars a little bit cleaner with the font a little bit better

1:02As far as performance

1:04It is super snappy just like the original one so I'm not gonna say that hey this one brings a lot more speed

1:11It's a very similar in speed to the old one

1:14Except just things are a little bit more cleaner and a little bit more optimized I would have to say and with the user interface being

1:21A little bit cleaned up especially in the settings because in the home the launcher

1:25it all depends on what kind of launcher you use and

1:28If you like this style

1:29Go go for it. All right, so let's not talk about the apps that are built in last class

1:34Let see what happens when you hit navigate and

1:36With navigation it has nothing preset it to it

1:40Generally the navigation you want to use is I go

1:45So it's gonna be a loading and then time look for GPS signal and stuff like that

1:53So yes, it's working you can take it is 3d. I, I don't know how you guys can see that text

2:01So let me adjust the camera settings little bit. Oh, yeah, so it's very bright this

2:07This screen right here

2:09Yeah

2:11With the with the new 8.0 and the octa core head unit

2:153d rendering is a lot smoother frame rates per second. You can see the frame rate is actually really

2:21really smooth

2:23And

2:25Older units like the quad core might have to struggle with at least graphic graphically intensive stuff like this

2:30like this but yeah this thing is just breezing right by and it does take a second to load

2:37But compared to other things and how much stuff that is going on right here this is a really nice unit

2:44So that's the

2:47That's the GPS that you also have 2d which is kind of cool

2:53Let's look at the radio app and see what kind of features it has in the radio. Oh

3:00That thing slaps loud

3:03Anyways, you have your radio. This is if you're very familiar with Android

3:088.0 7.1. These are all very similar radio. I like that static of it's very clean very easy to use

3:15You have your tuner up here

3:18And then you can have presets as well as the search functions if you want to seek

3:23What kind of of available station. This is actually I'm now going to change all of my radio presets

3:29Which I don't want to do but if you want to do like a new

3:32But if you want to do like a new FM2, which is the FM2 presets, you can do a quick search,

3:39see what kind of, it'll basically occupy every single preset it runs into.

3:45This is I believe like stereo or something like that and then more I like that tags

3:51and things like that.

3:52Of course I wanted to have that so we'll keep it like that.

3:55It shows metadata information which is kind of cool.

4:00A lot of cool things you can do so there's a lot of features AFTA PTOI things like that

4:05So the radio app no complaints. It sounds good,

4:11No HD radio and no satellite radio too you have to download an app for that. I

4:15Don't really use radio, but I can see that peel from that

4:18Here's the music app

4:20I actually don't have any songs in here

4:23But here it is

4:26Let me see if I throw in a not sure if I have

4:32Any songs in this 64 gigabyte

4:35Micro SD. See what happens when you plug in an SD card

4:41Nothing so there's no songs in here anyway, so it's not detecting anything

4:46Bluetooth this is how the Bluetooth app looks like you have

4:50It this one defaults to pretty much your radio and not your radio, but your phone things like that and whoever called me

5:03So that's how it looks like you can actually import your

5:07Contacts as well get that information in settings. We already looked at

5:12Hmm looks like there's already things popping up in the widgets kind of cool

5:21Steering load. Those control work so you can see me kind of messing with the steering wheel controls right here

5:28video

5:30If you guys want to see how that looks looks like this

5:33Very basic Bluetooth. This is probably what you're gonna use a lot if you have your phone hooked up to it

5:38so I was charging my phone and

5:44I was watching some unbox therapy. So, um, yeah

5:47Just place it through here and then place it through here. If that's what you're into

5:53Let's not do that though. All right. So next off file browser

6:02Basically a file system for your Android head unit. You can go through and move objects move folders and files and other

6:10Directories like that

6:11DVR if if you have a USB camera, which I don't have you can plug a USB camera into here

6:18And then you can use it as a dash cam monitor information like that

6:22AVN is let's say if. If you hooked up a PlayStation or a

6:27Dash cam not dash in but a front camera rear camera. That's what I like to do and I have it kind of set up like that

6:35That's cool easy connection

6:40Let's see this actually works

6:48There's a bunch of options with the easy connect you can connect you through USB is for you to have this to work

6:52You have to download this app and then you can basically mirror your screen over

6:58Let's say you're on Instagram or something on your phone. You wanted to show something you can do that with this unit

7:04Which is kind of cool. It's kind of like Apple CarPlay in a way if you want Apple CarPlay or Android Auto

7:12So that Isy that's so cool

7:14All right, so there is will key study, which is how you map your steering wheel controls

7:20It's pretty simple. If you press a button on your steering wheel

7:24It will automatically detect just clicked it and then you can do you can

7:30you can select your settings what happens when you hit the phone button

7:33You can also just what you happens when you do the long press. So if you long press it

7:37Let's say you say I want to open the microphone if I long press it and then you can save your settings right there

7:43Kind of nice, let's do the hang up button

7:48And when I hit the hang off button on my steering wheel control, let's say I want to hang up if I long press it

7:56Let's do a mute

7:59There you go

8:01Let's save it

8:03. So I got my volume up volume down

8:07If I long press the hang up button

8:11Mutes is on

8:13And then if I long press it turns off and on so that's really cool

8:17You can get really customizable kind of like any if you're used to keyboard macros and hotkeys

8:23It's very simpler simple

8:26Next off. Let's go to amplifier. What kind of things we have here here

8:31One two three four five six seven eight nine ten eleven

8:35EQ balancer whatever you can turn on loudness and stuff like that the sound quality sounds pretty pretty good on

8:41I have upgraded speakers and an amplifier. So it really makes the sound kick pretty good. Oh

8:48if you like to do math or let's say you were at Starbucks and they're like hey

8:55can I get a venti coffee and you're like that's two tiny 25 times you know my five

9:0113 bucks

9:03You can do sign code sign tangent. You got pie. We got the natural log

9:08E stuff like that. That's very cool

9:12Clock that's self-explanatory APK installer basically

9:18installs AP

9:20applications, so if you need to install something

9:23It comes with some

9:25Applications here that they come pre pre enabled into here. You got torque

9:31to work.

9:31Wallpaper dabs. So torque allows you to monitor your kind of like a

9:35Cobb access port or kind of like a OBD2 reader allows you to do all that stuff and it's nice that comes in with it

9:43Now if it's pirated or you know legit copy and that's I don't know, but it is there

9:49instructions acrobat calendar chrome gmail the list goes on this unit does

9:58have GPS like you saw earlier so if you're saying hey my GPS antenna doesn't

10:03work it's really easy to install GPS antenna it's literally like a screw and

10:08you can't really miss it it's huge instructions I actually never seen

10:13instructions before so let's see what kind of instructions they kind show

10:17here mmm look at that

10:25intelligent operating main menu operations so let's kind of let's go

10:28skim through this Wi-Fi at 1.6 gigahertz or megahertz yeah just kind of

10:31got 1.6 gigahertz or megahertz yeah just kind of skim through this very cool how

10:46they have documentations on this because some guy really spent them time

10:50itn it's actually pretty well laid out but again this all this stuff is very

10:58easy to use and pretty self-explanatory even installing it was

11:04just a. Matter of a plug-and-play I actually have a video of me installing

11:07it if you need help with installing it you can click on this little card

11:11right here and they'll show you guys how to install a unit like this very

11:15easy you don't have to hire anybody and I just turn on my headlights so that's why

11:20you see this nice red hue now this light is actually adjustable if you're planning

11:26to have a let's say if you have a Mustang or whatever car and the lighting is

11:31it's teal on a Mustang you can change this color to according to

11:34whatever color you have and in my WRX that's how it is naps play store this

11:43is the navigation car TNPS

11:47now this is if you have if you buy the optional accessory you can monitor it

11:51each individual wheels tire pressure which is really nice yeah tire rotation

11:59mode you can see all the stuff it's very cool that something like this

12:03exists for this kind of platform Z box that's like some basically some

12:11bionaries and some you don't have to worry about Z box now let's talk about a

12:17little bit of things about the reverse camera the reverse camera is not plug-

12:21and play so just the camera so it's straight a little bit so the camera is

12:28not the camera is not plug-and-play but it is actually very easy to install there's

12:32clear labels on how to install it so if you're looking to how to install it

12:37it's pretty easy now my reverse

12:42camera is actually set up to be my rear camera my side camera so when I throw the

12:48car in reverse you notice that I actually had the side camera which is

12:51showing whatever is happening over there yes it does have the camera I bought

12:58has these little pre built-in lines which is kind of but it's there my

13:04but yeah so when I throw the car in reverse it automatically, automatically turns

13:14the screen on. Again, it's very easy to wire. I don't think you guys have issues, with that.

13:22Now, when you turn off your car, I'm gonna say power off shutting down unit. And I have

13:29it set up for instant boot up pretty much if I turn on the car. So let's say the car has

13:32much if I turn on the car so let's say the car has been off for about 10

13:37minutes in this case a few seconds but if when you turn your car back on

13:43just put in the accessory system boots up and it instantly pretty much is back

13:53you're ready for any action things like that I've had a car on to throw in reverse

13:58of course now the car when you throw your car in reverse I haven't

14:04powered through this when you put your car in reverse whether you're booting or or

14:11say your car is cold booted throwing in reverse will instantly turn it

14:16on now you probably saw those artifacts it's because my side camera the way I

14:22have it installed is I have it wirelessly installed so that's

14:26another thing all right so that's all the interfaces applications let's talk

14:33about something different talking about it earlier the performance now let's go

14:40to the settings let's look at what kind of thing is under the hood because the

14:44more horsepower you have the better system we want to know about the

14:51machine so again we're rocking with the px-5

14:55resolution 1024 by 600 actually very sharp so don't be like that's a low

15:00resolution that's a very sharp screen for especially for nine inch and you're

15:04sitting pretty far back it's not like your cell phone screen but it is

15:08is pretty clear 8.0 CPU is an 8 core 64-bit CPU cortex 853 8 1.5 gigahertz with 4-gigs

15:23of RAM now 4 gigs of RAM is plenty I think that's as much RAM as

15:27something like on a modern day phone actually so that's a lot of RAM you're

15:31that means you a lot of multitasking be able to run ways Pandora Spotify and all

15:37that I never have any issues with speed with this unit especially on a hot

15:40day let's say when you're in the sun you turn your unit I really don't have

15:44any issues with speed because you know it gets kind of hot and like an oven in

15:48your car sometimes and this thing handles it like a champ so speed wise very

15:53smooth very I mean it's all

15:55all you need to do is play music and stuff I don't see why it's too

15:59intense and then the more intensive things is like GPS like I showed you with

16:02Like I showed you with those 3d graphics

16:04But honestly you're not gonna run into too many slowdowns

16:08especially if you're the type of person who just brings their phone in and

16:11Just plays it through Bluetooth. Let's say you just have your phone

16:14And you're just like almost you go your car and just turn on Bluetooth, and then you're just gonna be playing

16:18Bluetooth music it's not a really big deal you know so there's that with it oh so

16:30I was talking about speed and the speed is phenomenal you're not gonna have any

16:35issues and of course when you're talking about other options when it comes

16:39to a car there is this unit is a car head unit so there's definitely car base

16:45things like steering wheel amplification navigation so these are the car

16:49application stuff so elements no it's not a Honda elements elements is the RGB

16:57functions of these lights so you can change into look all these colors any

17:01these colors any color you want remember depending on how you want

17:04you want it to look like it's just there for you anything you like I might

17:10give it red steering wheels really touched on this stuff navigation we

17:15already touched up on you can basically change your

17:19sounds depending on where you want your sounds to come off of and things

17:23like that so it's nice to have tailored things when it comes to navigation

17:27driver settings again the do you want you be able to watch a video while you're

17:32driving had notifications blocked while you're driving and I had those checked

17:36to mark because of course those are kind of distractions but also sometimes my

17:42passion likes to watch this in videos so I'll allow that and block

17:45notifications the less, the less pop-ups the better right there extra

17:49settings shut down delay when AC is off so yeah I have set to one hour your

17:55head unit can pretty much stay in sleep mode for depending on however long you

17:59want so auto sleep 30 seconds one hour that's basically when you turn off your

18:06When you turn off your unit and you turn it back on, how fast do you want it to do a cold

18:11boot.

18:12A cold boot is basically, you know, when you turn off your cell phone and you turn it on, it

18:15takes like 30, 40 seconds sometimes with my phone a little bit faster, but it does take

18:20a while.

18:21It usually takes 20 seconds for the system to boot up from a cold basically off state.

18:28Now with this options, you're pretty much able to have it in sleep mode, just like

18:36your phone. That way when you turn it on it wakes up very quickly. Play music when

18:40you have USB automatically. Reverse X-Mirror. So I have all these things on

18:45because this is going to pertain to your backup camera. Going on to factory

18:52settings. Now I believe it's one. The number is one two six. Now you really

18:59don't have to go into this depth to the path. Now you guys know it's one

19:02path now you guys know it's one to six but this is another menu that's really

19:06advanced I don't really touch any of this stuff so if you're into that then

19:10the only reason why I see somebody going into this is if they're changing their

19:16logo so again when you're booting up your system it does have an animation

19:21kind of like when you boot up a phone it says like it shows an apple in the

19:24middle and it boots up the lights up this the same thing with here you can

19:27boot up to a make sure be she or you know if you have high five the evil

19:31evil Asian or something. Just kidding, WRX all the way. But Toyota VW and yeah, boy, right

19:40now be rocking the Subaru. So we're going to keep it on the Subaru. That way. And you

19:45can even have a custom icon. Let's say if you want to rep something else, like a, um,

19:50let's say what the heck I have a McLaren, but there's no McLaren here. Maybe there

19:54isn't McLaren in here. But yeah, you can put your own logo if you're into that.

19:59It's a lot of customization features, so that's pretty much for the car settings.

20:04And the rest are pretty much anything you find on your normal phone like sounds and

20:09key tones, whether if you want, when you press something, it makes a beep noise.

20:16Now, personally, I don't like that, so I tap it off, and you can set up your notification

20:21sounds such or like that, so yeah, a lot of settings and features you can play

20:27with, which is kind of cool.

20:29So, let's conclude everything, this unit has been fast, it's been reliable,

20:33everything this unit has been fast it's been reliable I haven't had any

20:37crashes anything especially in the hot hot Sacramento California weather right

20:41now it's been 110 degrees here and there right now I'm in

20:45the car it says it's like 85 90 and it's hot I'm sweating but with that with all

20:50the hot and heat you know that really kills electronics it has been thermal

20:54throttling and I haven't noticed it such a decrease in performance or

20:58anything it's very fast actually the camera I'm using to record the Sony

21:02a6500 it's actually saying my camera is too hot right now it's not

21:06like in this book of course you can see right here this thing is taken like a

21:09champ so yeah let me just play a YouTube video all this it's happening or

21:14something like that it's been quick it's been fast it's been reliable because

21:21this is the resolution you guys can see so my camera shooting 4k and you see

21:25the resolution it's pretty much high definition it's not 480p it's higher

21:29than that it's very clear for a head unit in a car it's been amazing so

21:36should you upgrade if you have the older head units like an Android now if you

21:41have a 7.1 7.12 or something like that everything is very similar if you

21:48have the octa-core compared to the quad core versus the octa-core very

21:52similar of course the octa-core is a little bit faster and I had no

21:56issues with new applications or anything so the octa-core is here to

21:59stay and it has pretty good 3d graphics and stuff like that if you're

22:01If you're into gaming or anything like that, but gaming on your aNdra head unit on your car

22:06That's what are you gonna play Pokemon go or something? I don't even know if yeah, that's just not talk about it

22:12Anyways, yeah, so the performance have been really good when it comes to this

22:17and uh

22:19Should you upgrade for a 7.1? I

22:22I would probably say you might want to keep it unless you like just the 8.1 with

22:27more security patches and fixes and stuff like that everything else would be very

22:30would be very similar now if you have the older Android head units like in

22:33your if you're on kitkac 4.1 4.4 stuff like that then you definitely want to

22:37probably upgrade because you're gonna have a lot more new features like there

22:40is a split screen multi-screen things like that better security of course and

22:45it does feel very snappy compared to the older models but yeah

22:49so if you have the older units maybe something to consider now if you have an

22:54OEM unit like my my head unit from Subaru or Toyota or anything like that now

23:01those units are very cheaply made they're very I just don't like them I had to

23:06blow up bluetooth issues with my stern unit with the bluetooth on here it

23:12connects very fast and it's very snappy and actually sounds great with great

23:16metadata information now the OEM units they kind of

23:19of sound eh and they definitely look like little calculators or the screen

23:23resolution is really bad and it's just not designed very well and it's very cheaply

23:27made so if you have an OEM unit if you have a Subaru OEM unit Toyota must you

23:30If you have a Subaru OEM unit Toyota must you know,

23:33whatever you, definitely want to check in the

23:35Android head unit, at least look, look it up.

23:38See if you like it because this definitely wows

23:41everybody who goes into the car.

23:43So kit an Android head unit if you.

23:45If you haven't, I've been rocking these.

23:48It's my favorite mod in my car.

23:50So I have a Subaru WRX and I mod everything

23:53in this car. E85, you know, downpipe, cat-bat, headlights, tail lights, shift knob, this

24:02that performance, suspension wheel and this Android head unit is my favorite mod in my

24:09car. Sure, you know, a performance is great, but everyday DD seeing this compared to my

24:17old unit, man, I hated my old unit. It looked like trash and it made my interior look

24:23like a Subaru 90 90s 2000 interior and with this unit it makes it more modern

24:28up to scuff so looks are important are important to me,

24:30to me performance wise it sounds great it's reliable it's faster and it

24:35connects the Bluetooth a lot better than my OEM units so performance is better

24:39aesthetically it's a lot better and of course the price it's like three four

24:45hundred dollars like why would you not get some like this would you get a cat

24:49bag exhaust for a thousand or get some like this for four hundred now you have

24:53to ask yourself what's more important to you for daily driving and stuff like that

24:57mmm this is my favorite mod I told you I modded a crap out of my car so that

25:02So that concludes it links below if you're trying to buy and here's some I want to link some other

25:09alternatives if you want to buy something else, but

25:12That's my recommendation. This is my favorite mod on my car the Android head unit and is the 8.0 better than the other ones

25:19Yes, it is better now. If you have the older ones, definitely you want my look into it

25:24If you don't have have an answer hitting at all

25:27Buy one and install it. It's easy. Don't have to pay best buy or any audio installer

25:31or any audio installer you can do it yourself and that's key and it's fun

25:36when you do something yourself so please subscribe like and comment any

25:40thing below and I'll definitely help you guys out your boy got you okay alright

25:47peace out whoa