Planet Audio PNV9680 Double-Din 6.2 inch Touchscreen DVD Player, Receiver GPS Navigation, Bluetooth, Wireless Remote

After purchasing and returning several "budget-minded-ly priced" navigation head units that were either poorly made or lacking in features, I came upon this unit and found a "keeper". At a price point much lower than most comparable built-in GPS units, this one boasts enough features to give you a lot of bang for your buck. It's not perfect, but if you want perfect you're shopping the wrong price point.*All sync comments are based on connection with my Samsung Galaxy Mega.Cons:-Syncs contact list in numerical order by phone number, not alphabetically by name. Yep, that's how they decided to organize it, in a way that no phone on the planet would ever organize it, making it virtually useless in this day and age of "if I could remember somebody's phone number I wouldn't need to look them up, now would I?" Not the end of the world, but completely useless.-You cannot carry on a bluetooth phone conversation and display navigation at the same time, nor does it give audible direction while on a phone call. This is really annoying when you're at that crucial "last few turns" moment and your girlfriend calls you crying about her lip gloss or a kitten she saw online or whatever they think your life should halt for and you wind up missing your turn. The silver lining for this is that it will teach you to be more comfortable with sending people to voicemail.-Call logs are not actually synced, they are established through use of the head unit, and only retained since the last time the unit was powered on. This means that your log only shows the calls you've made on this trip, and it only shows the phone number you dialed, not the name of the contact. The "Received Calls" log has never populated for me.-Navigation does not call out street names for upcoming turns. This is fairly minor, but having used a navigation unit with this feature, it is kind of nice to have the street name read aloud. To be fair, the User's Manual for the GPS is pretty lengthy (80 pages), and I haven't sat down to read the whole thing, so there may be an option for this.-Route recalculation seems stubborn. In the event that you want to take a route other than the norm (to avoid a car crash, let's say), it seems that if the unit wants you to go a certain way, it'll try to get you to turn around even after you've passed the point where turning around would be faster than continuing the way you're going. I have it set to a female voice, though, so maybe if I switch it to a male voice it'll be more allowing of me making my own decisions.-Radio reception seems a bit weak. I've noticed that my radio stations have static in areas around town where other radios, including the stock one, had crystal clear reception. Again, to be fair, this may be to do with how my wires mashed into the radio cavity... I could have a loose connection for all I know.-You will have to cut your trim piece to make it fit around this. I know, big shocker. I swear the people who make radios and the people who make dash trim kits never bothered to talk to each other and figure out what the "standard" size should be. I went through 4 radios before coming to this one... all too big. This is the closest one to being the same size as the trim piece opening, but I still had to cut it. If there is a radio out there that you don't have to cut the opening bigger for, I've never seen it or even heard of it. It's the unicorn of radios.Pros:-Responsiveness. The touch screen response is very good. A gentle tap does the trick, and I don't think I've yet had to press something twice to get it to respond.-Interface. The user interface takes a very short time to get used to, and I find it very easy to utilize. Initially I didn't like how you input a destination, specifically that you have to input a city as one of the steps every time, until I discovered the "History" button that was right in front of my face the whole time, which saves the cities you've navigated to. Now setting a destination is a snap.-Volume knob. It has a knob to adjust the master volume instead of buttons, which I find much easier to manage while driving.-Navigation routes. The routes have been really good. In fact, it once sent me on a route that I wasn't familiar with which then became my preferred way to get to the next town to avoid rush hour traffic and stop lights. For this, I am forever grateful.-Navigation waypoints. It calls them "Via Points", but you get the idea. You can set an ultimate destination, and then set other stops you'd like to navigate to along the way. Great for my work as a mobile tech; I can input all the customers' addresses I'm going to for the day, and when I start up the car, I'm instructed to my next "via point" automatically. Even Google Navigation on my phone doesn't do this.-Navigation commands reduce volume of music. This one could be a pro or a con, depending on your personal taste. This unit does not fully mute music to give direction, it lowers the volume so that you still hear the music when you hear the command. The volume level of the voice commands can be raised or lowered (which will be touched on below), but the degree to which the music is lowered does not appear to be adjustable.-Bluetooth connection. As soon as I turn on my car, my phone is connected surprisingly quickly. It has to be the quickest connection of any of the head units I've tried. It also sounds very good, both for music and phone calls.-Microphone. Having a built-in microphone left me a little skeptical about the voice quality for the person on the other end of a phone call, but no one I talk to seems to have any trouble hearing or understanding me, and most of the customers I call are elderly.-Customization. This thing is loaded with adjustments. You can adjust the volume of everything individually in relation to each other, meaning that if you find your bluetooth music is loud compared to your FM radio music, you can turn down the relative volume of your bluetooth or turn up the relative volume of your FM radio to "even out" the volumes and limit having to adjust the master volume when you switch from one activity to another. The navigation screen has 3 items of information on the lower left, which are selected from a panel of items to choose from (I have mine set to show current time, trip duration, and arrival time). There are also several options for how routes are calculated, warnings for speed and traffic cameras, and even traffic (which I have yet to set up, so I don't know quite how it works yet). As I mentioned, 80 pages of User's Manual for the GPS, so there is way more to it than what I'm touching on here.All things considered, I'm very happy with this unit. It does everything that I label to be "critical", and the few points it misses on are minor and easily tolerated. It looks good, it sounds good, and it works very well. If you've been looking for a GPS equipped radio that won't break the bank, this one is definitely worth a look. If I had a second vehicle, I would buy another of this radio for it.

i love it so much, it fits perfectly in my kia, though i didnt use the plate that went with it. the touvh screen is very respnsiVe, not complicated at all. love the 85x4 thing makes huge differance i think. very simple and stylish, not totally sure on the gps or bckup camera cause havent used but looks good so far. love the bluetooth, although not sure why it has passcode on that part because i didnt need it to get in. i will say its hard to see in daytime (screen) the gps is hard to get used to and make me not want to use it. great sound. it really depends on what u r looking for in a stereo. if its for music and radio and connecting Bluetooth phone then yes it is great. but screenbin daytime is biggest problem for me.

Provides clear instructions so easy it's to installRemote hasn't worked since day 1 of receiving the systemTouchscreen stopped working & froze up "no responds" in the middle of road tripIt powers on and then get stuck on Bluetooth screen/Menu and NAV button only worksThis product works, dvd, cd, navi feat. sounds great only for the 1st twelve months

Bought this indash double din radio because of the features and price and thought that the Navigation portion of it would work like all my other portable units. It does not. When I punch in Points of Interests (restaurants etc) by distance it shows me places miles if not hundreds of miles away. The navigation by street address works well and so does the radio. If you are looking for a unit with detailed maps this is not for you. My $60 Garmin gives me way more info. Map software leaves a lot to be desired. Went online and updated the micro SD card but that didn't help. (Naviextras.com) Also called PLANET AUDIO and after waiting on hold for 20 minutes they told me local points of interests show very little. If I had to do over I would choose a different radio.

I highly recommend any buyers of this stereo system to do some research on it and their car before buying it. I say this because it just bearly fit my buick century 2003. It works really well in most aspects except the radio.I also noticed a lot of people saying this stereo is an easy install. Lol. It was extremely confusing. You have to basically do trial and error with the wires and the wires DO NOT correspond to colours. I had orange wires going to green wires and magenta wires going to yellow wires.While I was doing the wireing, I noticed that my regular antenna cable does not fit into the stereo. So I'm going today to find a universal one.Lastly, I live in canada, and this radio only has certain radio regions, the closest being USA, which is about an hour drive from me. Fingers crossed that this works out.If you want my recommendation, stear clear of this stereo, there are way too many problem with it.