Respectfully, if they are making false claims about their products they will quickly be given bad reviews and removed from the platforms such as ebay and aliexpress. They won't want to damage their reputations and income streams in that way. I understand that you're saying don't trust them, but the fact remains that buyers have the power on these platforms, so being deceitful is not good business sense.
In any case, I'm still interested to hear from anyone who actually has the same model as I do and whether or not they have either android or apple carplay working in any fashion at all.
They do get bad reviews. This forum is full of them.
I'm not sure you understand. CarPlay is apple
owned and registered software. You need Apple's permission to LEGALLY use it and advertise it. They don't have Apple's permission, so they are
ALREADY being deceitful.
You might see words like "CarPlay" on the Chinese websites, but you will never see the official
"works with
APPLE CarPlay" logo
which is seen on other head units with official support (JVC, Pioneer, Alpine, Kenwood), because Apple would sue them.
Soooo... if they can be deceitful to Apple, what makes you think they won't or can't be deceitful to you??
Now.... while I am sure they are not flat out LYING to their customers, they are not exactly being truthful at how hard it is to get a RELIABLE connection..... and it is hard.
And... Even if you get carplay to work on these Chinese units, there is no warranty that it will continue to work after your next phone update because Apple is ALWAYS looking to do things to shut the door on these illegal users.
Now AndroidAuto is a bit different because it is open source, so the Chinese can't get into trouble for using but still they are not officially supported by google and therefore not on the official google support list. On the other hand, I have never been sure why someone would want to go to the trouble of using Android Auto on an android head unit in the first place. It's kind of redundant and unnecessary since anything you can do on an android phone can be done independently and directly on the head unit itself. It's flat out not worth the headache.