Carlinkit TBox Plus Review: Turn Your Car's Touchscreen Into a TABLET!

hey guys technically Jeff here and today I'm going to show you the best easiest and most cost effective way I've found to turn your vehicle's infotainment system into a fully functional essentially tablet that allows you to watch videos on your car's display run navigation run OBD2 monitoring apps like car scanner honestly run pretty much any Android app you want and it comes with wireless Android auto and apple carplay built in too and the high-end version of this which I'm running and definitely recommend is under 200 I'm going to go over all the details with you guys so let's get to it now you may have seen my previous video review of the AI box from one car stereo the technical name for it is the Tee Box I got that several months ago and it's been working fine for me I know a lot of other people have gotten it as well and it's been working great for them too this though is essentially an upgraded version of that device for a significantly lower price again the AI box is the Tee Box this new device is the car Link at t-box plus and I got Auto kit carplay.com to provide you guys a promo code Tech Jeff that brings the cost down to only 180 dollars and that's over a hundred dollars less than the normal price for the basic AI box from one car stereo and that's a lot of money and remember this is an upgraded unit this runs Android 12 instead of Android 9 so it's a much newer operating system which helps in a variety of ways it also has a newer faster Qualcomm processor and 8 gigs of RAM and 128 gigs of storage both of which are twice as much as the regular t-box this will translate to faster processing faster load times better stability and that 128 gigs of storage means you can download a lot more movies and TV shows to watch on the go using your home's Wi-Fi without having to use data and if you want you can get an LTE SIM card from your wireless carrier and use data that way without the need for Wi-Fi or using a mobile hotspot and the t-box plus is compatible with more frequency bands than the original t-box 2 including the important band 71 which is a necessity if you have T-Mobile or one of its mnvos like mint mobile so with all that said I'm a tech guy obviously and when I saw this available with all the upgrades that the t-box plus offers at such an inexpensive price I had to get one to test out and honestly I'm really excited about this because it does work so well and at this price point with the tech Jeff discount code a lot more people will be able to afford it and get to have all these features so anyway enough of me talking let's get it unboxed and we can test it out I'll take it out here it's nice and thin definitely thinner than the regular AI box you can see the usb-c charge port and SIM card and micro SD card slot here you can see the label this is the t-box plus version for North America with eight gigs of RAM and 128 gigs of internal storage I'll go ahead and take the protective plastic off here it looks good I like the finish on it it's got a lot of holes on the bottom which should help with heat dissipation which is good we also have a USBC to USBC cable and a USB a to usb-c cables so no matter which kind you need for your vehicle you'll be good to go then we have a little user manual with some information on getting it set up and yeah it looks good let's get it plugged in so for the Kia ev6 and a lot of vehicles you'll use the USB a to USBC cable I'll unfold it here and plug it into the t-box Plus nice and tight fit then I'll plug it into the vehicle's USB 8 data port and it lights up and I'll just sit it in the cubby underneath for now and it will turn on and pull everything up it calibrates the display output to match the size of the vehicle's display then it's going to restart and this is what it looks like when it loads up it gives you a warning about not using it while the vehicle is in motion obviously you can check the box to have this not show up again which is nice so I'll tap that and hit agree and accept and here we go this is the default home screen launcher it is running Android 12 but it is compatible with both Android and iPhones you can see it comes pre-loaded with various apps it's nice and responsive it's laid out very similar to the regular Tee Box since it's running the same launcher I'll tap settings here this does look different we have a lot of options for various settings we can change I'll increase the video definition to the highest here if you tap more you get the normal Android settings menu I'll go ahead and enable Dark theme Here I do prefer that and I'll go ahead and pull up the software version here too you can see it is indeed running Android 12. and it has those eight gigs of RAM 128 gigs of storage we have the same floating navigation bar as the normal t-box you just tap the white dot and it opens up the menu where you can go to the home screen go back go to recent apps open the voice assistant do side by side windows clear RAM and exit to the car's normal infotainment system it's pretty easy to use I'll go to the bottom here and pull up the t-box plus version info for anyone that's interested as well and yeah I'm gonna go ahead and connect to the Wi-Fi log into some apps download some additional apps from the Play Store and I'll be right back now I'll go ahead and open up YouTube here and show you guys that it's basically what you see on a tablet I can pull up my channel here go to videos and tap on one here hey guys technically Jeff here and today I have a new dash cam to review and this is one and it pulls it up good bitco Mexican there 4K that can to test out and it has all the features you'd expect from a 4K dash cam Wi-Fi and app support group recording audio quality is good you got offers an oem style Fitness that integrates into the crowd around my community there are no issues with stuttering if you tap the screen you can see a list of additional videos underneath it like on a tablet or phone then we'll tap the white dot and tap home to go back to the home screen I'm going to go into the settings here and try out launcher Style 2. and that's new that's pretty cool you can have the maps up and various widgets and the speedometer which is nice right now it's in kilometers per hour so I would change that if I were to use this but that's pretty neat I'll go ahead and pull up HBO Max here and show you guys that and I had opened up Chrome and then tap the multi-window button so I'll show you how that looks you can see it on the side it's waiting for me to choose the other window so I'll open backup HBO Max and there we go now one thing I will download is Nova Launcher I use that to customize my home screen and my app list on all my devices and it works pretty well while that's downloading I'll show you guys Disney plus there are some apps that you'll find the app store will say is not compatible like Disney plus here for those you can search using Google Chrome for the APK to download be sure to use a reputable site like APK mirror then once you download it you can give it permission to install and it will install it that way and it'll work just fine now I'll show you guys a couple more things if you tap home you can see it takes you out of everything then you just tap Apple carplay to go back to it it does run using the Apple carplay protocol for wireless connectivity you tap Auto kit this will connect it to the wireless Android auto in my instance you can adjust some settings here like having it automatically connect when it starts up and I'll show you it works just like normal here foreign quality is good you have your normal Android auto experience then you tap Google to go back to the t-box plus interface now one question I know will come up is how long does it take to turn on so let's check that out I'll unplug it here then plug it right back in and there we go not bad at all I did select to have wireless Android auto start automatically so I'll cancel that but yeah it's looking good now I'm going to go log into everything and set up Nova Launcher all right it is another day since it was getting late but you can see my new setup here I'll go ahead and open up Disney plus so you can see that working oh Ahsoka is out oh it's just a trailer okay I'll go down and let's pull up Iron Man 3. appreciate that what does that even mean it looks good you can't really tell the video quality since I'm taking a video of a video but it is very clear and in HD sure is it yes ma'am it is and you are Homeland Security good here no we're not good I'll go ahead and go back and you can see you have the full catalog now I'll pull up Discovery Plus and there we go my kids like the kids baking championship oh my goodness and it's working well this is one of my favorite cookie shops I love this place I do too what's your favorite comedy you can see the downloads here too you can download episodes and movies directly in these apps to the t-box Plus now I'll pull up Netflix again we have the option to download here too most if not all of these apps have that option which is nice but I'll press play and again it works well this brightness control doesn't seem to do anything like it does on cell phones and yeah again no stuttering or any issues I've had no freeze-ups with this which is nice oh yeah come here you big love I knew beneath this hard crispy outside there was our song new goodies that are in there if I call you Uncle bird with everyone in my body great hey can I work with Hammy you want to help me find my nuts bear now I want to show you guys car scanner too I have it connected to my Bluetooth OBD2 reader and it works great you can see all the details about the vehicle and the battery I'll also show you guys the omu app connected to my new 12 volt battery from omeo it works well too it's pretty cool to have all this in my car's display you can see I have a variety of apps here but again you can download thousands from the Google Play Store I also have abrp installed which is nice for Ev route planning you can see it has my vehicle details here and you have all the options that you have in the app and if you get abrp premium you can connect it to your OBD2 reader and get live data for more accuracy which is pretty cool now again I have Nova Launcher installed which is how I customize the home screen and app list here I'll probably do a future video on customization options for now though I just wanted to kind of show you guys how it all works and what it can do but yeah overall it's working really well it's smooth and responsive it looks good honestly it looks and works just like a tablet and like I said for the price you can't really beat it I'll post a link in the description but it's from Auto kit carplay.com and again this is the t-box plus version and be sure to use promo code Tech Jeff for 18 off bringing this version with eight gigs of RAM and 128 gigs of storage to only 180 which is just incredible so anyway let me know if you guys have any questions on anything be sure to subscribe for more videos I have a lot on the way thank you guys for watching and I'll see you in the next video

Channel: Technically Jeff

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Length: 23min 51sec (1431 seconds)

Published: Sun Apr 09 2023