The advantage of using a wireless dongle that uses AUTOKIT UI is that it can boot up much faster. This is because the images for the boot-up menu screen are pre-rendered and it does not need to be generated every time it boots up, which saves a bunch of time and this optimisation gets you into the dongle’s boot menu much faster.

Activez le bluetooth et le wifi, mais gardez "non connecté". Cherchez et sélectionnez le signal bluetooth dans votre iphone, le nom du signal bluetooth qui s'affiche sur l'écran de la voiture. Its launch speed in the 4 test android apps was high to good, not the best, but you will likely not see a significant difference between the speed of the top 4 AI Boxes. So after many extensive tests, I narrowed down my 11 finalists to just my top 5. All of these AI Boxes are worth looking at, yet some may offer better connections and features, so depending on what you want out of your adapter, you might find an AI Box in second or fourth place that is a better fit for you. 5. Exploter ApplePie UltraThe T-Box Plus is priced quite competitively against similar spec’d AI Boxes, so factoring in its availability, performance and price, the T-Box Plus stands out quite well. Its user experience is better than the T-Box Mini, but I personally feel there is still room for improvement when you compare it to the extra visual quality of its competition. Ford: C-MAX, Fiesta, Flex, Focus, Edge, Escape, Fusion, Transit, Transit Connect, Mustang, Super Duty, Explorer, EcoSport, Ford GT, Mustang Mach-E, Bronco Sport So CarlinKit has been one of the more popular brands for Apple CarPlay dongles. They were the first major brands to bring us the USB Apple CarPlay dongle for Android systems, and they also lead the charge with one of the first wireless Apple CarPlay dongles too. So it is always interesting to see what they come out with next, and this new Apple CarPlay Mini 3.0 dongle is just one of the newly updated dongles they have released over the past month. I can see other makers adopting this dongle’s smaller form-factor soon. So I would expect other brands to release smaller dongles soon too. It is good to see CarLinKit has chosen to continue with using the newer AUTOKIT software, with its faster boot-up speeds, so if you already have a 3.0 dongle or a dongle with this same software, then I don’t see the need to update to this new one. If you want the convenience of CarPlay Wireless or Android Auto Wireless without having to upgrade your car’s head unit or get a new car, then the Carlinkit 4.0 is absolutely worth considering. You’ll need a car that supports CarPlay through a wired connection first, and the device is a little expensive, but apart from the slow initial connection, it works very well. The competition

Ford: C-MAX, Fiesta, Flex, Focus, Taurus, Edge, Escape, Expedition, F-150, Fusion, Transit, Transit Connect, Mustang, Super Duty, Explorer, EcoSport (Do not recommend use 4.0 for wireless Android Auto), Ford GT, Mustang Mach-E, Bronco, Bronco Sport Pioneer: DA120, AVH-ZL5150BT, Z7250BT, AVH-Z7100DAB, DMH-C2550NEX, DMH-1500NEX, AVIC-8500NEX, AVIC-3400NEX, AVIC-2400E, AVH-2550NEX, AVH-2330, AVH-1440NEX, AVH1330, AVH-4200NEX, FH9400DVS, NEX Head Unit, 250bt, AVH-Z5200DAB, AVH-Z3100DABFirst, let me cover how both generations of these wireless dongles work with your wired CarPlay system: These dongles are for existing wired CarPlay enabled vehicles or wired CarPlay enabled aftermarket receivers. If your car doesn’t already have CarPlay, this dongle won’t work in your vehicle. You have to already have wired Apple CarPlay along with a USB port that you previously used an Apple Lightning cable with. The Android Auto dongles induced hairpulling during setup, starting with the Carsifi. Admittedly, I was somewhat hampered by testing with an Android device (a Google Pixel 4) with no cellular data plan—that would have made the firmware updates and accessing the help files via the Carsifi app a lot easier. But even after the updates, I still had to experiment with settings, finally turning off Carsifi’s “Intercept AA protocol,” before it would work in my 2018 Honda.

The installation video says you plug it into your car's smart port, be it USB-C or USB-A, with the other USB-C end going into The Magic Box. It includes an 8-inch premium braided cloth USB-A to USB-C cable and a USB-C to USB-C cable. The Magic Box takes about 20 seconds to load and displays a fun animation screen. It warns you not to use the dongle while in motion, and then deposits you in a configuration screen. The Magic Box runs Android itself, and thus has its own settings you must use—like setting it up to use Wi-Fi from your home, or when parked by the coffee shop, or off of your phone’s mobile hotspot while you’re on the road.Suzuki: Baleno, Ciaz, Hustler, Ignis, Lapin, Solio, Solio Bandit, Spacia, Spacia Custom, SX4 S-CROSS, Vitara, Jimny Installation is fairly simple. It is no harder than plugging the adapter into the USB port of a CarPlay enabled head unit and pairing the iPhone to it via Bluetooth. Wi-Fi credentials are exchanged transparently over which future connections are magically established whenever the paired iPhone gets close to the running car.