Good afternoon,
The Phoenix 13.6 Inch screen aftermarket radio was first announced somewhere in June 2021. I pre-ordered it and by October 2021 no ETA from Phoenix, even though it was promised to be released by July. So, I cancelled that order.
Fast forward to a couple of weeks ago when I saw the demo video on youtube and could not believe how nice their unit looked.
I took a chance and ordered it again. After 10 days the unit arrived to my house very well packaged and with all wires, adaptors and antennas needed (no instructions).
My truck is a 2019 5th Gen Big Horn base. I have manual AC controls and regular backup camera.
To my surprise, installation was easy and everything works.
The unit looks amazing and it delivers on everything promissed. Even the AC controls, the steering wheel controls, hazard lights, etc... everything works plug and play. Even the car configurations usually done by the radio are also retained....like daylight running lights, etc. No need to mess with settings or reprogram anything.
However, there are a few compromises.
1) Mic quality - it does retain the factory Mic, but now it sounds more noisy and hollow. The head unit also has a buit in mic and it is not much better. It also gives you the option of a 3rd party mic (included), but I have not tried that yet. The mic selection is in the Car Settings Menu.
2) back up camera image quality is somewhat bad. It works with the factory camera , but not even near to the image quality I had on the factory 8.4 system upgrade I had put on the truck to replace the stock 5 inch radio. My 8.4 screen displayed an HD image for the rear camera and now the image on the 13.6 screen is not only worse, but also smaller...no idea why. The screen on the 13.6 radio has a good screen. 1080P, but the camera does not get scaled properly.
3) The screen quality is very nice overall and after you remove the matte screen protector it comes with, the quality inproves a lot. However, during the day the screen could be a little bit brighter.....I am in Florida so Sunshine State!!
I hope this helps. Have had the unit for a week, so not sure on durability.