Joying Car Stereo Receiver/Head Unit Review

[amirm]

Dudu OS has been progressing rapidly:

DUDUOS 3.6 Official Release - Elevate Your Driving Experience！250515 - DUDUAUTO

A global community for Android automotive enthusiasts. Discuss, learn, and innovate with DUDU OS, launchers, and localization.

forum.dudu-auto.com

Are you able to open their website like the one above? All of their links timeout on me which takes away any value they may bring in this area.

 

[amirm]

P.S. I have the ATOTO S8 premium and an Alpine single din (nice unit, just old skool) laying around. I can send them to you for testing if you have any interest in adding to the test lot.

Yes, while I am in this mode of testing such gear, would be nice to add to the catalog. Please start a conversation with me and we will take it from there. Thanks.

 

[amirm]

There's a very real chance that Android "12" on this device is actually Android API level 29, aka Android 10. Best tool to detect fakes is probably Fake Device Test, but some vendors have customized their Android implementation to detect this app and fake it out. Alternatives include AIDA64, CPU-Z, DevCheck, or Device Info HW. Posting screenshots from these tools would be good in future reviews. Android 14 gained lossless USB audio, but I think there were big updates for 11? At least Mekede seems honest about things.

While I didn't mention it by name, I did indeed use Devcheck to find the Android number being 12. Your advice is good to include it in the review and I just did that for the Dasaita unit: https://www.audiosciencereview.com/...saita-android-automotive-stereo-review.63229/

 

[amirm]

Makede's Dudu OS is only (?) Chinese head unit vendor that's actively developing a polished Android launcher, near as I can tell.

Mekede purchased them and seems they no longer provide their launcher for others.

 

[energizerfellow]

Are you able to open their website like the one above? All of their links timeout on me which takes away any value they may bring in this area.

Whatever CDN they're using is pretty slow most of the time, plus they seem to have a thing for huge images on their web site. It's usually OK if I wait a while for that first big image load to get local cache going. Try using a VPN into SE Asia somewhere?

Mekede also seems to disable the right-click menu on their site, which can be bypassed with shift right-click in Firefox.