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BINIZE Android 13 CarPlay AI Box - have you got one? Tips and advice please.

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I just got a similar unit from CarLinkIt (a TBox Plus). It also can use a sim card and a memory card. I added a memory card, but didn't have a sim card handy. Instead, I linked the unit's WiFi to my home's WiFi while the car is in the garage, and turn on my phone's hotspot when away from home. The unit will use the Google Play store to add apps, or it can load them from the memory card if you copy something to it from another website.

I've been watching Car Scanner on the infotainment screen and found a GPS app with a good display to let me compare the speedometer with GPS speed. The nav apps still disable the internal Kia navigation, although I can see the Kia map in split-screen while navigating with an Android app (ABRP, Google Maps, or others).
 
The CarLinkit unit has Netflix pre-installed. They mention to not upgrade it even if it says there is an update available. Must be something going on there.

I think the memory card is probably most useful if you want to download videos and watch them offline. I don't really know what I've done yet that uses it.