You have to already have wired Apple CarPlay along with a USB port that you previously used an Apple Lightning cable with. If your car doesn’t already have CarPlay, this dongle won’t work in your vehicle. So is the CarLinkit 2.0 Wireless dongle an evolutionary or a revolutionary product? Let’s see if this dongle is worth the upgrade, or if it’s worth being your very first wireless Apple CarPlay dongle in your existing Apple CarPlay enabled vehicle… How do wireless Apple CarPlay dongles work?įirst, let me cover how both generations of these wireless dongles work with your wired CarPlay system: These dongles are for existing wired CarPlay enabled vehicles or wired CarPlay enabled aftermarket receivers. Retailing for $83, This revised dongle boasts a number of physical improvements along with a different case design. We’ve already reviewed the first-generation of wireless dongle here on CarPlay Life, however, CarLinkit has now recently released its second generation of wireless Apple CarPlay dongle. The CarLinkit 2.0 Wireless Apple CarPlay second-generation dongle Since then, CarLinkit has spear-headed the dongle market with many competitors white-labelling its technology and selling it under different brand names.
Fast track a year or so later and they were also the first to release the first-generation of wireless Apple CarPlay dongles for both Android receivers, and more importantly, existing wired Apple CarPlay systems and receivers.
CarLinkit was one of the first companies to release a hardware product that allowed Apple CarPlay to operate on an Android-based stereo receiver (or Android tablet) via a simple plug-and-play USB dongle and an installed Android app.
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