Panlelo $200 Android Head Unit: 2016 Subaru BRZ Review

0:00All right, so this is the review of this Android head unit from Penelope

0:04You can check out the links in the description below. It's from Amazon took two days to ship. So let's get it

0:10So we just finished installing the head unit

0:31Just so you guys can see what it looks like

0:34Mommy turn on this turn this lights up blue, which looks pretty cool

0:42There's the boot screen. you can tell that the factory OEM has a huge gap right here

0:48You can buy a part that actually fills in the gap

0:52We're planning to buy one from Japan, so it's gonna take a while

0:55But there are options if you need to have those spots filled up. We are having it ordered

1:01are having it ordered. Yeah, so right now it's just gonna have these two gaps,

1:05but it's temporary. Let's go over the menu and what do you think of the

1:12performance and speed. So it's pretty quick and the screen looks really sharp a lot.

1:19It's very, very quick and everything is very fast. It doesn't lag. There's no lag, I see.

1:28Tipped up to my Bluetooth and the GPS works. It sounds really great.

1:34Sounds sounds really great

1:39Sounds good, and you can see how fast it loaded. You got to turn off the sound does so you can

1:45hear us

1:47Yeah, and

1:49Yeah, it has Wi-Fi

1:51Bluetooth GPS when I show the GPS, you know

1:55Turn the GPS on

1:59Actually, let me use this one. There's actually a little hotkey right there

2:04So this one stock comes with Igo maps and for people wondering whether they need data or a

2:15You know it like a data plan for this you don't

2:18This has its own built-in GPS antenna and allows you to your location and all that jazz

2:26Without having need for data plan. So if you're wondering about that, you don't have to

2:32It just comes with GPS right out the box.

2:40And the reverse camera, once they set it up,

2:43looks really nice.

2:45We'll check it out.

2:46Turn the car on, and you throw it in reverse.

2:49Go ahead.

2:50There you go, so the reverse camera works with the OEM factory unit.

2:58You don't a, or this one comes with another factory camera, another camera right out the

3:05box but we opted to go for the OEM camera that's in the 2016 Subaru BRZ and it still has guidelines

3:13and stuff.

3:14If you want to show them setting where you can actually adjust more information regarding

3:18the camera, like if you want to have more saturation, contrast, increase the brightness

3:24of it, all these options are available to you., so that's the thing about Android head

3:29units, they come with a lot of features, and you can adjust things the way you like

3:30They come with a lot of features and you can adjust things the way you like it

3:39You can also change the wallpaper, which I was messing around quite a bit in live wallpapers

3:47Reintero active I like doing that the bubble ones. Yeah, yeah

3:52so

3:53If you're very familiar with the Android architecture, you're gonna feel right at home

3:57And you're gonna feel like it's just really easy to use

4:01The Starlink unit on these OEM ones so first one she bought her BRZ it was

4:07very laggy slow the user interface was an intuitive didn't have GPS built in

4:13this gives you a lot of functionality and for the price of 200 bucks I think it's

4:19it's very worth it with the value the quality you can't get a pioneer you

4:24can't get a Kenwood for 200 bucks and get this kind of screen quality in this

4:29kind of performance and the audio quality is actually a step up from the

4:30And the audio quality is actually a step up from the stock unit to so if you're like complaining about your BRZ audio

4:40Everyone knows if you increase if you buy the head unit like an aftermarket head unit

4:45You're gonna get a performance bump and yeah, we got that performance bump and you can say your own EQ

4:53EQ's and

4:55There's just a lot of choices

4:58Applications to make your sounds even more rich my prefer Android

5:02The list goes on so there's some settings there

5:10The user interface look like right now we're gonna go into Spotify just to open it up

5:26See what it looks like

5:28We installed a new launcher. It's called the car launcher

5:31called the car launcher so if you guys are looking for that kind of style

5:35launcher, you can change the whole menu completely. This is Spotify, works just

5:42like your phone if you have a spot up on your phone. Scroll through music, listen

5:47to whatever you want, which is really nice. Here's that interface again. As you

5:55can tell right here it's just super responsive so let's see yeah just really

6:05responsive head unit so what do you think of the head unit I like it like how

6:13smooth it is there's no delay really an upgrade from the

6:19unit at the Subaru head. What would you review it? This one I would give this one

6:29a very positive review as soon as I can get the trim pieces in and make it look

6:31As soon as I can get the trim pieces in and make it look better on the head unit itself. It's I

6:37Would give it a 10 out of 10. My honest opinion. I like how it's an Android unit

6:43You can customize it yourself and make anything look good

6:47Depending on how you want it to look like

6:50I like how it has a GPS

6:53Because the other head unit I had the GPS wasn't good or don't even remember if I had GPS on there

7:00They weren, they weren't working. There was an app for you. You can put on Starlink and

7:05They made you pay for GPS per month

7:08It was really slow and sluggish too because that menu on that Starlink Subaru is just terrible

7:16Yeah, and this one it also has a mic feature

7:20I like yeah

7:25Pretty good review for this head unit

7:28There it is

7:29Ken Mako herself

7:34for $200 I don't think you I can go wrong with an Android head unit I mean

7:38We were shopping for Pioneer, Kenwood, you know the works, you're looking at $700, $800

7:44and you know those screens aren't even HD, they're like 800x600 resolution.

7:51They do, they do do the a lot of functions as well, but I think because the Android

7:58platform is so flexible this one just has more capabilities because the

8:04the operating system is not as proprietary as like the operating systems on a

8:09pyre near or whatever and it just looks makes the interior look really good and

8:17a lot more modern especially once we clean up these bezels it's gonna pop I

8:23know I have an Android head unit in my Subaru WRX and everyone is just wowed

8:28by it so if you guys were looking for a cheap alternative to you know those

8:31Android head unit in my Subaru WRX and everyone is just wowed by it. So if you guys were looking for a cheap alternative to

8:33You know those big boys like Pioneer go for an Android head unit. It's $200. The installation was easy

8:40I just bought the wiring harness and I just pretty you look you just look up your you know, your factory pin layouts

8:47I'm not an audio guy audio installer and I can do it myself. So if you were looking for a fun do-it-yourself project and

8:56Penelo he really supports his customers. He you email him you ask-questions that guy replies

9:03guy replies really fast so if you're looking for great customer service this

9:09unit took two days to ship with Amazon Prime not like the Chinese ones in

9:13Ali Express that take a month or two and their customer service is nowhere as

9:19near as good as the ones on Amazon like Pinellas and all that so props to him

9:24and I had a few questions he answered it really fast and he's a very friendly

9:28the guy so pick up this head unit guys you're gonna love it that's it

9:35so first thing you need to do when you're installing this is you need to

9:42remove this trim piece I'm gonna use a little plastic a little pry tool get

9:47underneath underneath it and then just pretty much pull and then it releases

9:51one of the bomb tabs and pop it out so these are the tabs I of talking about

9:57use a pry tool on the bottom. This is the first install I pretty much just

10:05This is the first install I pretty much just twist-tied it for now

10:10I don't know if this is gonna work

10:12But

10:14You're gonna put a wire diagram look right here. All right, so with this thing right here

10:19It's a down converter, whatever 12 volt to 6 volts. So what I