Installation instructions: 2 Stars
The mechanical part of the installation could have gone much faster with better documentation. Nice though that explains how do I remove the Orignalradio my smarts, but unfortunately 3 sentences in English as the "Documentation" and 4 black and white photographs in small format help when installing little.
In the electronics I would have liked that it is mentioned that as in my case, a Smart has not all cable is in its connectors. - So missing the smart ignition power, which is why the unit was concerned and I just thought, the power supply of the radio is broken. (I had the radio explicitly ordered as Navi for a Smart fortwo BJ. 2008, so it should have been by
Must Plug & Play function and I expect that.)
To find out why the radio had no electricity, I drove to a car Hife Center, where then the ignition current was taken from the cigarette lighter and it was a cable for Alpha S600 relocated. (Costs 30 EUR.)
Well, the thing was then eingbaut and had electricity, so now to the points, which is why I actually purchased the product:
Listening to music 3.5 star rating:
Sound is good so far, better than the factory radio. For a real car audio freak probably not 3.5 stars, but to me it would have been enough.
Touchscreen 2.5 star rating:
The display is OK. With a smart phone, it would be unacceptable because something inert and inaccurate, but you could accept in a car radio.
OS 2.5 star rating:
Well, Android 2.3 is just anything but contemporary. I knew that, although already the order, but does not change anything on it that Android 4 already exists and should be retrofitted one year.
Navi 3 star:
Pretty old maps (2010), but very nice surface, fits. Because you can install a Navigation App from the Android Market, you can compensate for that. The point could therefore assess almost as neutral.
Speakerphone 4 star:
Fits, does what it should. Cable for Micro long enough. To import the contact list did not immediately but after some trial and error well.
SD card operation 1 star:
My SD card, which works flawlessly in mobile phone and laptop, was not recognized by the device.
Kabelos MP3's on the phone 2.5 star rating:
Blutooth transfer funktionieniert, but the title of the MP3s that you are streaming from your phone over not anzgeigt, also could be Blutooth app more user friendly.
Radio 0 Stars:
Even if you somehow had with it all can live, I could not live at the end of the day with the FM radio. The original radio I've about 17 - receive 18 channels in my home.
9 it clear that other acceptable.
With the Alpha S600 I received 0 (in words: zero) transmitter automatic seek tuning. I put the frequencies manually, came scratching or actually it's more the case that we heard every third word of the radio speaker between scratching. The Radio app could be more intuitive and is designed somewhat carelessly. A few nice animations could aufhübschen it well.
And at the end of the day it's primarily the: A radio, so back.
Conclusion about the device:
If the device had a good radio and Android 4 and would also operate the SD card, you might at 3 - get 4 stars.
Then my experience was not yet finished with icartech so that the company icartech for installation marks (scratches) frame device (not in the front, but in the invisible range when the radio is installed) for weeks simply completely refused to grant the legal right of withdrawal although I even proactively conceded to pay an impairment.
Instead responded icartech so, my device again (equal 2 times, I got the acceptance the first time denied and again the second time) zuzuschickten comment. At my suggestion regarding. Werminderung was initially reacted in any way to my request to the AB to recall was not complied with. Service So 1 star.
Only the PayPal Buyer Protection has directed and then I got 80 EUR impairment for installation marks paid. (What I found unacceptable was the only way to this "agreement" bumpy to impassable.)