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| February 4, 2013 | Honest review after 2 months... |
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Review by
Michael from Boston, MA
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Installed the unit. Worked great initially but noticed that the unit was becoming unstable with use. It would randomly crash as if an OS on a computer would crash that the unit becomes irresponsive to power button or any other buttons or dial the unit has. Could not connect Galaxy note. Bluetooth audio with iPhone4 is buggy when you have Bluetooth tethering enabled. It locks up the unit. Turning the key off did not power down the unit. if you don't believe me. Do a google search.
GPS is useless as it requires network connection. Your smartphone has better Navigation software. Hardware is outdated that it only supports legacy version of android that is no longer supported. No one writes software that runs on the Android version provided with the unit. The Asteroid's CPU cannot be upgraded with recent Android version due to HW limitation. The engineers have not thoroughly worked out all the bugs that you come up with some unusual sequences of selection of programs and pushing buttons, the OS in the unit crashes. Without looking at the code, I am willing to bet it has memory management issue that the engineers decided to become sloppy with or have no expertise in managing. I was skeptical about getting this unit due to overwhelming number of bad reviews on the net from the actual users. But I bought it anyways. I was wrong. The asteroid is a unit with a good concept but it is a classic example of a company over promising without realizing its capability and failing to deliver. My unit won't turn on anymore even through hard reset. I am glad that I bought SquareTrade warranty as I feel very confident that the Parrot will NOT be able to address problems with product that should not have been released to begin with. The product has been out for over a year. The firmware update does not help with stability as I have tried. Help yourself and do independent search online and see the true review of this product. Parrot runs technical support forum. Go see for yourself make an educated choice for yourself.
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