MMB Android 9 CarPlay AI Box Review | Android 9 OS + Wireless CarPlay + YouTube + NetFlix + More!

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What JoyeAuto have done with this new dongle, is to merge these two dongle functionalities together to offer you an Android OS, that’s also been upgraded to Android 9.0, and it now offers the ability to swap the dongle to wireless CarPlay mode and also allow your iPhone to communicate with your wired CarPlay system, wirelessly.

The AI Box itself has the exact same dimensions and connection ports. The colour is clearly different, and the status light on the top is also there too. Inside the AI Box has had some minor upgrades. The processor, GPU, RAM and ROM are all the same as the Android 7 box, so sadly there’s no additional performance improvements to expect here, other than what the new Android 9 software brings. There is a new 5 GHz Wi-Fi module now inside this box, so with that you get increased bandwidth for wireless CarPlay and also to your smartphone connection when tethering your mobile data to the AI Box.

With the hardware mostly untouched in this new version, we could have gotten the Android 9 upgrade on the existing Android 7 AI Box. But it would have come without the wireless CarPlay functionality. What its maker has done is merge their MMB Dongle Plus and Android AI Box together to offer a single product that covers both desires. The first is the ability to allow the ability to use your wired CarPlay, wirelessly. This works just as well as the MMB Dongle Plus. But now for the additional cost of this dongle you also have the ability to run Android 9.0 and all the apps and functionality it brings, such as watching any copyright-blocked apps on your CarPlay screen without going through Apple’s own restrictions. Split-screen app review, and the picture-in-picture mode is also quite handy also.

The cost of this dongle is a lot higher than most other dongles, but you are getting a lot of extra functionality with that Android OS layer option. I would have liked to see a spec bump to help improve Android app performance, as I had a few occasions where apps would simply crash from doing too much at once.

Like the original AI Box, I still think having the option to move the floating onscreen controls to a fixed area to the side or bottom of the screen would greatly improve the usability of using Android on the CarPlay display. Because between using different apps, they can so easily get in the way and you can sometimes miss hit these controls when trying to select something else nearby.

I would have liked to see native wireless Android Auto support. I would also like to see the GPS dongle somehow integrated into the AI Box and not require the use of installing the kit and playing with your fuse box to get GPS into the AI Box. Just like the other AI Box though, and also the MMB Dongle Plus, switching between CarPlay and Android OS requires a reboot.

You can have it auto boot into CarPlay with a setting turned on, so it can behave just like any wireless CarPlay dongle, and you also have the added luxury of running Android Apps as and when you need them with a simple, quick reboot. So if you are after the best of both worlds, then the MMB Android CarPlay AI Box might be something worth considering.
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TIMESTAMPS:

0:00 - Intro
0:18 - Brief overview
1:46 - Unboxing
2:20 - Difference over Android 7 AI Box
3:17 - Install AI Box into VW Golf
4:15 - Wireless CarPlay Boot-up
6:02 - Boot into Android 9 OS
6:38 - Connecting to mobile hotspot
7:35 - Google Maps App
7:45 - Optional Keyboard
9:53 - YouTube App on CarPlay
10:58 - Split-Screen Mode
11:18 - NetFlix App on CarPlay
11:53 - Picture-in-Picture
13: 02 - USB Media
14:24 - Settings
15:56 - BT Phone App
16:23 - Wallpaper Themes
17:34 - More Apps
18:50 - Google Play Store
19:25 - Google Assistent
20:08 - Spotify App
21:20 - Wheel Controls
23:14 - Waze App
24:10 - Tiny Striker Game on CarPlay
25:43 - iPlayer TV on CarPlay
26:10 - Switching to Wireless CarPlay
27:05 - Connecting cable to charge
27:32 - Overall impressions

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