MMB MAX 5.0 Magic Ai Box Wireless Carplay & Android Auto Adapter, Android 13, 8+128GB, 8Core, Multimedia Video Box Support Disney+, NetfIix,YouTube,Live Sports,Google Store,HDMI OTA and More

I bought this for long road trips and am very pleased with the result. It turns your wired CarPlay/Android Auto into an Android 13 interface. You can Play videos, surf the web, download apps from the Play Store, all the things you can’t have through normal CarPlay or Android auto. I am Not a Tech Person so I found it a bit cumbersome to set up and had many questions on how to set it up and how to make things work. So I started a Whats App chat with the MMB Service Technician and he answered all my questions and walked me through everything step by step and sent me videos on how to do the things I asked to get me set up. Now everything is working great. He was a great help, very patient and made himself available to me for any questions I had or would have in the future. And thats why I give Him and the MMB Max Device Five Stars.

First, let me say that I really *wanted* to like this thing! On first boot, I connected to wifi at my house and set everything up. Next, I added an SD card and a SIM card. Functionally, this little box was doing what it was supposed to do. It felt like magic! I never used it for video playback or games - so I can't speak to how well it works for those purposes - but I did connect it to my wifi dashcam and a bluetooth ODB2 vehicle scanner, and I did use it for music streaming with YouTube Music and for onboard navigation with Google Maps and Waze. I even installed BlueBubbles - an app that would alert me when I received texts on my iPhone. Generally, it handled everything I threw at it and it did so without a ton of effort. But there were annoyances, too. The biggest - and this was a major frustration for me - is that it there isn't a dedicated system menu. To get access to a Home button on screen, you have to tap somewhere to enable an overlay layer (which offers a home button and several other options). But tapping anywhere, in most apps, causes the active app to do something too. To me, this is a huge design flaw! I played around with system options, and there *is* another mode available, but opting for the left-side dock didn't present all of the options. Often, I found myself starting music in YouTube music, then hopping into CarPlay mode (through the MMB) to get a more-touch-friendly UI. CarPlay isn't pretty, and it didn't have all of the apps that I wanted to have, but it worked reliable and it was convenient. (But this thing costs 5x more than a wireless CarPlay adapter - I wasn't getting my money's worth!) I had planned to connect a secondary display, but unfortunately, my MMB died before I could do that - just 31 days into ownership, too. It still powers up, but my car no longer recognizes it as a connected device. I also tried bringing it inside and connecting it to to an HDMI device. (I didn't expect that to work, but I was desperate to get access to some sort of UI to see what was going on. As expected, it didn't work.) When it was working, it was a 3 star device, with room to improve if the external display was really great. As is, though, it's a clear 1-star failure and waste of a decent chunk of change!

The MMB MAX 5.0 Magic Ai Box Wireless Carplay & Android Auto Adapter may be a good adapter for Iphone users, but for Android phone users, not so much. Before I go on, please take with a grain of salt as it could just be user error. I don't like that this boots up to it's OS every time I start my vehicle (24 Telluride) or plug it in. I can't find anything in the settings to change this. I can't make phone calls from the boot up user interface (because I don't have Iphone?). When I tap the AA icon it goes to the connection screen, but does not consistently bring up android auto. I've tried different steps, but unable to consistently get connected. Once connected to AA, it does work as it should and will make calls, send/receive messages, and apps work. This item was purchased to watch videos while parked and waiting for my wife shopping. And it does work well from the boot up user interface. I've tried Netflix, youtube, Prime, and my main reason for purchasing Youtube TV. But again, just the other day I switched to AA and switched back to main interface and lost internet connection. I don't use a SIM card, but depend on a hotspot from my phone. As of now, I use a AA adapter only for AA and if I want to watch videos, I switch to the MMB. As for the above issues, I've tried every combination of WiFi, bluetooth, device settings, and hotspot settings to try and get consistent results, but have failed.

This is a great way to add streaming feature to your car. Works easily with the car play function. Only complaint is the slow boot up time.

I have a 2019 Ford F-150 with Sync 3 and MMB 5.0 would not set up. So I returned the first one and had the same results with the second one. Amazon tech said I needed to factory reset my Sync 3 radio and I did that, it takes for ever, and that did not help. UPDATE . . . Looking at other manufacturers, Carlinkit, the Ford F-150, 2017-2022, is incompatable using the same product specifications. Bummer. UPDATE #2 - The manufacturer reached out to me with a request to help and they are sending a new one with different installation instructions at no charge. Very rare now days and very appreciated by me. Even if the product and support does not work for me, the fact that the manufacturer went to this length rates a 5 from me.

First things first, I wanted to love this thing! I have watched tons of reviews and have purchased a couple other boxes previously so I do have some frame of reference. I drive a newer Hyundai Ioniq 5 electric vehicle. My vehicle has a wide screen tablet display. I have previously purchased the Carlinkit Tbox UHD 6225. While this device was overall decent, I felt the performance was sluggish compared to what I would expect, plus the device took 45-60 seconds to boot up each time I entered my vehicle. I reduced my usage to only using for times when I was charging my vehicle and for daily driving I use a basic wireless android auto/carplay adapter instead. With that background out of the way, onto my experience with this box. I will say, I thought this would be my perfect box. From all the videos I've seen, touch response is very solid with this device, which was a major issue with my Tbox UHD. From the moment I opened the sealed packaging (sealed with clear shrink wrap), I suspected this was an open box or used item. I noticed there were scratches on my device and fingerprints on the gloss black coating on the front of the box. This already wasn't a great first impression for an almost $200 AI box. From the first time I plugged the device in the language settings were in Taiwanese or Chinese, and I had to use Google Translate to try to change the settings. I tried a factory reset, but the system did not prompt me to pick a language after resetting. I then had to search for the default Android settings to try to change the language settings by going through the box settings. This process took about 15-20 minutes before I FINALLY could use this device. Setup wasn't too bad at all. Especially with another box for reference. Apps I stalled easily and everything appeared to work fine. I spent about 2-3 hours messing with the box and getting signed in/set up. This happened on Saturday, using the box in the car on a warm day with air conditioning on in the car. I will say I could not get my data only SIM card from Google Fi to work no matter what I tried. I wasn't able to get the same SIM card to work with my Tbox UHD either. I have gotten the SIM card to work with an aftermarket android headunit in another vehicle though. Fast forward to Monday, I drove my car to work - a less than 15 minute drive. Just in the time it took me to back out of my garage the box paired to my phone and then dropped connection to wireless Android Auto. Odd, but I repaired and things worked okay for another 2 minutes or so until the box completely stopped working. I tried disconnecting power, checking my cable connections, and even plugged in my basic android auto/carplay box and that one worked fine. I have continued to troubleshoot the box but no signs of life. I cannot explain what happened. After this experience I would not recommend this box or this brand. I am super disappointed as I had high hopes for this box. I gave this 2 stars becuase it worked pretty well when it worked. I have tried just plugging the box into power and still no luck.

I bought this for a very long road trip with kids and am very pleased with the result. It turns your wired CarPlay into an Android 13 interface. Play videos, surf the web, use widgets, all the things you can’t have through normal CarPlay or Android auto. I verified that it is a Snapdragon 665 that will run at 2.4ghz, and through about 20 hours of use it’s been flawless. Android 13 is very good on the CarPlay screen. Switching between apps is fast, it shows 8gb of RAM and 128gb onboard storage with an SD slot for extra. Streaming video and Spotify get the full Android apps which is probably the reason most people will buy this. It also has a sim slot that I didn’t get to test since I let it tether to my phone. You can also drop out to native CarPlay or Android auto and it will run those wirelessly. I didn’t expect this, but the snapdragon cpu is SO MUCH faster than other (cheap) wireless CarPlay adapters I’ve used that it changes wireless CarPlay. No crashes, no noticeable delay on screen or calls, after using a lot of wireless CarPlay adapters I accidentally found the best one. Really nothing to change here. I had a long road trip and this kept my kids entertained the whole time with streaming videos and games, I absolutely recommend it.

At first I was skeptical about this gadget as most of Chinese products are garbage. But this thing is actually working very well on my 2023 Dodge Challenger Scat Pack system. I don’t use Apple CarPlay, instead I connect this box to my phone’s hot spot internet connection and use the android system. I use Google maps, view Netflix, YouTube videos, and YouTube music. It works very well, as long as the internet connection is good, no issues at all. However, it did not work on my Ram’s truck which has an aftermarket Sony XAV-AX8000 system, tje CarPlay feature does not recognize it.

Very clunky interface for the price - Plugs in and begins working right away with no problems - however the main interface has been slow, clunky and has froze on me several times. The car play feature with iPhone is very slow to connect - often out of the driveway and beginning down the road before its connects. Trouble shooting it to connect while driving is not ideal and waiting in drive way to connect is not ideal, especially on shorter trips that take less time than it takes to connect after playing with it. You also have to manually choose it to connect to carplay each time which although trivial is kind of annoying. Maybe you can set it to auto start the car play, however its also 50% successful on actually connecting. I have had cheaper ones that connect in less than 8 secs so the extra features on this is not worth the clunkiness and extra price. Phone blue tooth will show connected to it, but the box will not display the car play, just endless loop of waiting to connect. Had to reset it by unplugging and plugging it back in often to get it to actually connect, which by then if you have a shorter drive its almost not worth trouble shooting it. The frustrating piece is when I want it to connect I have issues, but when I am in the house my phone will randomly connect to it making me have to go into settings and disconnect my phone from its Bluetooth once I realize is why my phone and calls have no sound. Common issue I have had with past devices as well, however more acceptable inconvenience knowing that when I want them to work they do. Advertises all the right features and sounds great however I will be returning and going back to a cheaper more reliable device.