Product Description
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #1154 in Car Audio or Theater
- Brand: Pioneer
- Model: NULL
- Dimensions: 6.60" h x 10.30" w x 12.20" l,
Features
- SPH-DA210 - Pioneer In-Dash 7" Touchscreen DVD/CD/MP3/USB Car Stereo Receiver with Bluetooth, Mirrorlink, iPhone and Android Control
- 2-way iPod control allows control from the iPod or the stereo
- Power Output: Peak: 50 watts x 4 channels | RMS: 17 watts x 4 channels
- CD text information display
- MP3 ID3 Tag Display (Title/Artist/Album)
Most helpful customer reviews
54 of 56 people found the following review helpful.
Excels in some aspects, questionable integration.
By David
I have a 2008 Subaru WRX, and am upgrading from AppRadio 1. With iPhone 5, I needed a lightning cable solution, and also wanted bluetooth integration. This met my needs perfectly, so I thought.
Pay careful attention to the cables you'll need for this install. I recommend looking on Pioneer's site and skimming the manual. In all, I spent quite a bit over the base cost purchasing a lighting AV adapter and the CD-IH202 cable for USB connectivity (required - it's proprietary on the back of the unit.) Get Amazon's new lightning cable as an extension - it's cheap, and works great. I kept my ASWC for steering wheel integration (manual programming required) and picked up the parking brake override from seller Microbypass, on Amazon. Works perfectly.
What's great?
The sound quality is improved with digital. I used to have alternator whine - it's reduced to insignificance now. The new bluetooth mic works spectacularly. The GPS antenna is reduced in size by half. Sound is overall fantastic. I'm sending my signal to a Polk amp with polk speakers. Fuller with more bass, despite some reviews critiquing the limited EQ. (I don't use a sub - don't want to give up the space.)
What's okay?
Bluetooth picks up my iPhone 5 every time I get in the car. Instant audio connection. UNTIL - you plug in the lightning cable. For some reason the unit shifts it's bluetooth detection at this point and decides you don't have an A2DP signal - just phone. You'll have to manually go into your iphone settings, tap the bluetooth connection again, and it will re-initiate. It's annoying. I find that I keep it unplugged, it works well. Opportunity for a firmware release. Siri integration works okay. I mounted my microphone above the rearview mirror; it struggles to understand me, but I was able to send successful text messages. For calls, I wish I could independently adjust the bluetooth phone input vs. audio input - they're a little quiet.
What's not?
Apps. There are so few available - and the ones that are here, are subpar. You are REQUIRED to use an app to access your iPod. It's not a native source. Speaking of which, why is "Pandora" a *source*? Why can't I remove this from cycling sources? If you've used "Motion X GPS Drive" - from previous appradios, you're now required to pay $25 for "external display support", and it doesn't work. I have a ticket open with them for resolution. Newer apps, like Waze, work very well. I'd like a GPS option that doesn't require a cell signal for the backwoods, however. Like previous generations, eager tech startups have been convinced to provide ideas for the platform, but established ones haven't been incentivized by the limited audience of this proprietary solution.
Conclusion:
There are better ways to have bluetooth audio. The screen and unit aesthetic are gorgeous, and fit perfectly in my car. I'm a bit of an aesthete, so this works perfectly for me. Determine what's important to you. For me, I find it overall acceptable to my needs. I can't speak to DVD/CD, as I don't really use it.
29 of 32 people found the following review helpful.
Where to start.... DETAILED REVIEW OF APPRADIO 3
By justinroyea
I have appradio 3 sph-da110 with a Samsung Galaxy S4 (I can't say anything about what the Apple experience is like but I assume pioneer probably made all the same mistakes and failed to further develop to fix them too).
Nothing works like it should except for the basic radio functions; Bluetooth audio streaming is great as well phone calls. Radio signal was weak for me but radio functions work fine. Reverse cam I installed works fine.
But these things are not why I bought an appradio specifically, so let me explain my one star review.
1st off when you finally get all the adaptors you need (depending on your phone's compatibility) which are never included and cost extra, you realize that when you plug it in none of the apps work together - you can't use GPS while using a music app. Yes thats right, you can't listen to music while using one of the 3 terrible options for GPS navigation apps. Steering wheel functions also don't integrate in app mode(I paid for an adaptor). You need to use the pioneer keyboard for anything to work, and its pretty terrible so it requires switching back and forth when you connect and disconnect appradio. Next you'll notice that the screen mirroring doesn't allow use of the touchscreen unless you're using app mode using one of the approved apps (there are about 15 apps offered altogether and they are also almost 100% crap, a lot of fluff and stuff your phone does so much better on its own - I had hoped for more useful driving related apps). Next is that your phone needs to be in landscape mode otherwise you get a tiny portrait view of your screen in the middle of the appradio display. When turning off screen rotation my phone locks in portrait mode, so I need to have my phone fixed somewhere laying horizontally, there's no option to force screen to stay in landscape mode OR to dim or turn the screen off. While your smartphone screen is being mirrored on the appradio display, your phone's screen stays on draining the battery, and the mhl port barely charges the battery at all, certainly not fast enough to maintain while using the bluetooth and with the display staying on it makes your battery drain fast even when plugged in. Again, you can't use any of the phone functions on the appradio touchscreen unless you're using your phone in appradio mode AND an approved app. The only way to get a real usable mirror image on your appradio display is by using ARLiberator, this is the ONLY option to have your appradio work the way it should (allowing you to use the functions of your phone through a mirrored image of your screen, the audio and video and multitouch controls of all the functions and apps on your phone in the car). Either way, ARLiberator is another 30-35$ and only works with appradio 2 - so its still useless for those of us unfortunate enough to have made the mistake of buying AR3 (and it seems ARLiberator has been pretty much abandoned by developers so not much chance of getting an update to support AR3). After finally convincing myself to accept that arliberator and my appradio would never work the way I hoped and thought, I decided I would just change the background and use the appradio in its basic mode, which still allows me to Bluetooth stream audio with full control from my steering wheel, and just continue using my phone for GPS navigation.. I told myself I could live with that, disappointed, but I would live with it and just hope someone at Pioneer or ARliberator someday decides to keep developing software so I can use this setup to its potential. All I want now is a nice Audi logo. After lots of research, I come to find out I can't even change my background. Apparently only Appradio 1 can do this via its micro sd card slot which neither appradio 2 or 3 models have.
I took out the mhl port, I use the USB only to charge my phone which works much better than when attached to the mhl port. Its only a radio with BT and a screen for my reverse camera. So many other options out there but I got this for APPRADIO! To connect my phone to my head unit and get different apps and functions to work with my in car display! Disappointed..
Summary: hardware is decent, potential is there BUT pioneer has done way too little to further the development of the product so that this thing can actually do what its capable of. Nothing was impressive, nothing can be customized, nothing works properly as its advertised. As a basic radio its fine, Bluetooth audio streaming is good, reverse cam is good, but there's absolutely no video unless you get the DVD version then you can play DVD videos. Arliberator does for appradio 2 what pioneer should have done for all the appradios. On its own, appradio as provided by Pioneer is almost useless, whatever it does - it does poorly. Nothing like you're supposed to expect as its been advertised and certainly nothing that makes it worth paying for - its a waste of money as cheaper and better designed products with the same basic functions exist. ARLiberator with appradio 2 is apparently the only worthwhile setup, but I don't feel like Pioneer deserves to sell ANY of these units considering the only way for them to work properly or satisfactorily was provided by an independent team of developers. I wish those developers would continue working on their software so that I didn't have to feel like I completely wasted my money. MASSIVE DISAPPOINTMENT.
Also BTW, when contacting tech support from Pioneer not only did I discover they're not open during convenient hours (while you're busy at work they're ready to take your call but then when you get home and have time to work on stuff they are closed), but the agents were all completely useless and knew nothing. I knew so much more than any of the 3 people I had the privilege of speaking with, which is sad considering I had barely done any research at that point. Finally when I concluded they couldn't help me they offered to send an email to a specialist and get back to me within a couple of days. Finally a month or so after the call someone sends me an email from a no-reply address one sentence long not answering any of the questions I had asked. Useless information, nothing to do with my issue. As of now, I don't think I will never buy another Pioneer product.
7 of 8 people found the following review helpful.
Not so impressed.
By Mike King
**Updated**
Sent the unit back to Amazon, and bought the AVICX850BT. Much happier now.
I purchased the Appradio to use with my iPhone 4 after watching and reading various reviews. It does everything it's supposed to do, but it has a lot of room for improvement.
1. If I receive a text on my phone, or any other kind of notification, the Appradio screen goes blank.
2. If I'm listening to ipod music and a call comes in, it doesn't go back to the ipod app after the call ends. Instead it dumps me back at the App screen.
3. Opening the Apps screen requires you hit "Allow" on the iphone, and if its locked you have to enter the code to hit "allow" every single time you hook up the phone.
4. I use the recommended navigation app, MotionX. When in 3D mode, and driving South, all the street names are upside down! Guess I need to always be heading in a general northern direction to use the app.
5. The response times in the apps is very slow.
6. The screen takes some getting used to. I am having to rehit most of the icons to get them to respond.
7. The screen has no apparent fingerprint smudge coating, so it gets smeared quickly. I keep a microfiber cloth in the car, and wipe the screen often.
Overall, I was much happier with my old Pioneer F700BT.
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