I installed the Linkswell 10.1" Gen 4 unit in my 2015 2500 2 weeks ago and wanted to share my experience to this point. Overall I love this thing and am mostly pleased with my purchase. The install went fairly smooth but I do have a couple of gripes that are mostly related to the advertised features and I hope sharing this will save other potential buyers some headaches after the fact.
First the positive, I purchased my unit from ADC Mobile. It shipped quickly and Walt at ADC was great to work with. I had a few questions during the install and called ADC's tech support line and was surprised to have an actual human answer the phone, it was Walt himself and he was extremely helpful. Most everything about the unit works as expected and it's been great so far.
I say most everything works as expected, and that leads to my 2 main gripes and these are things that are not really clearly stated in any of the literature available or the specs listed on Linkswell's site or even the dealer pages for that matter.
The first is the HDMI input. Linkswell has recently eliminated the HDMI input on these units. If you want an HDMI input you are out of luck unless you can find one in stock with a part number that ends in -4A. The -4B units being produced and shipped now only have an HDMI output. To me this was not clearly advertised so buyer beware.
The second is the way they list the number of camera inputs. The unit is advertised as retaining the factory backup camera and having 3 camera inputs. This made me think I had 3 camera inputs in addition to the factory camera but that is not the case, one of those 3 camera inputs is needed to retain the factory cam. This is probably listed somewhere in the 300+ page thread about these radios but I didn't see it, so shame on me. Mentioning this to help out anyone else looking to buy one of these things.
First the positive, I purchased my unit from ADC Mobile. It shipped quickly and Walt at ADC was great to work with. I had a few questions during the install and called ADC's tech support line and was surprised to have an actual human answer the phone, it was Walt himself and he was extremely helpful. Most everything about the unit works as expected and it's been great so far.
I say most everything works as expected, and that leads to my 2 main gripes and these are things that are not really clearly stated in any of the literature available or the specs listed on Linkswell's site or even the dealer pages for that matter.
The first is the HDMI input. Linkswell has recently eliminated the HDMI input on these units. If you want an HDMI input you are out of luck unless you can find one in stock with a part number that ends in -4A. The -4B units being produced and shipped now only have an HDMI output. To me this was not clearly advertised so buyer beware.
The second is the way they list the number of camera inputs. The unit is advertised as retaining the factory backup camera and having 3 camera inputs. This made me think I had 3 camera inputs in addition to the factory camera but that is not the case, one of those 3 camera inputs is needed to retain the factory cam. This is probably listed somewhere in the 300+ page thread about these radios but I didn't see it, so shame on me. Mentioning this to help out anyone else looking to buy one of these things.