Roav VIVA

Anker

About this app

With the Roav VIVA app connected to a VIVA car charger you can enjoy smarter driving through your phone with easy-to-use features. Enjoy smarter driving with Alexa voice contorl.

Stream Music
Play all your music from Amazon Music, Pandora and more. Just say the word.

Hands-Free Calling
Just say the word to call anyone while keeping your eyes on the road.

Voice Controlled Navigation
Tell Alexa to navigate. Just say something like: “Alexa, take me to the zoo.”

About Roav VIVA
The world’s first Alexa-enabled car charger. VIVA seamlessly integrates superior voice-control technologies and an ever-expanding library of 20,000+ Alexa skills into any vehicle. Give your car cutting-edge intelligence and capability.

Ratings and reviews

This has now become a very expensive paper weight. It no longer recognizes my phone unless I link it every time (seeing as how I got this so I do not use my phone while driving, point moot). Alexa went from hearing everything I said to not recognizing a thing. some days I can't skip songs unless I use my phone. Some days I can't CHOOSE a song unless I use my phone. Again, point moot. I want to add more, pages more, but I'm at a 500 character limit. I've never HATED tech until this

Another fine Anker product. This pairs with your phone and connects to your car radio to bring hands free calls, entertainment, and productivity to you car by way of Amazon's Alexa. You must have phone to radio connectivity gear of some kind in place to use this, ie, radio must have bluetooth, or an aux port, or you need a bluetooth-to-fm modulator to get things going. Roav uses your phone's data plan. My only minus is that the device doesn't always pick up my voice if Im playing loud audio

Issue 1: I can't get this new "beta zone" to show up in my app, so no trying of new functions for me. This is a problem as Echo Auto is on the horizon & this thing will have an impossible time competing with an official product that gets frequent updates & has the full, uncompromised Alexa functionality we are all accustomed to. Issue 2: though it is handy for a few functions, the big issue is lack of Spotify support. I'm not sure what is taking them so long to get it back into the main app after their beta from 6 months back or so. I have the APK from Anker directly that includes support for Spotify, but it's functionally bare bones & sometimes defaults back to thinking it can't play Spotify. Ask 1-3 more times, & it'll finally comply. Can't ask to play specific songs or anything. The Roav is likely not long for this world if they can't offer a compelling feature set comparable to Echo Auto, which will be official & cheaper.