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Re: Connect to Car Stereo
Check out the Parrot MK6000. It's a bluetooth handsfree kit with stereo audio streaming.
http://www.parrot.com/usa/products/b.../parrot-mk6000 http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=x6fLKlnZZog I haven't tried it yet, but have been looking at it for a long time. It's $149.00 USD plus installation, so much more expensive than the Radioshack/soldering method, but certainly a very elegant solution. My understanding is that once you've paired it with your phone and synced your contacts, all you have to do is turn your bluetooth on when you get in your car and start your audio. I'm thinking Orb is going to be my weapon of choice, or you can go with streaming radio or local audio files (.mp4 and .aac are supported). The music then streams to your car stereo via bluetooth and will pause when you get an incoming call. The caller's voice is then routed through your car stereo speakers and your voice is picked up by the microphone included in the kit. Finish the call, the music starts again. Pretty slick. It also looks like you can also skip from track to track and adjust the volume with the MK6000's controls. The only worry I have is that I will be using the the data radio and the bluetooth radio at the same time, with the voice radio thrown in there while on calls, so I imagine battery drain will be fairly massive. This will probably mean that my Diamond will have to be plugged into the charger at all times. Not really a big deal. That and the heat may very well transform said Diamond into a pool of molten plastic. Maybe that will finally convince Telus that they have a heat issue with this phone! As I said before, I don't own this device nor have I ever used it, just sharing my research. Has anyone else had any first-hand experience with the kit that they could share?
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I also remember seeing somewhere adapters for the smaller headphone type plug (forgot the exact size, 1/16"?) that adapt from that size to the standard 1/8" size and put a mic bud in between. I remember using an adapter like this with a Palm Tungsten C to get audio output from it but I never used the MIC as it wasn't a phone. Just a plain old PDA. As for permanently installable bluetooth adapters that route A2DP audio or line audio while adding a BT handsfree to the car I think the best out there is the one from Motorola that is sold at Sprint. http://nextelonline.nextel.com/NASApp/onlinestore/en/Action/OSBrowseAccessoriesDetail?categoryRefName=Car+Kits +%26+Installation+Services&PHONE_ID=MP6950SP&selec tedAccessoryID=KKX8605Q_C&topPageNumber=0&subPageN umber=0 I searched for some reviews in Google for this device and it seems to be very versatile and functional but it works best with aftermarket radios that have AUX inputs in the rear of the headunit. But since most modern cars come with AUX inputs you could probably modify the input and hide it away in your dash while making the connection to this input hidden so that a cable isn't poping out the dash and pluging into that port or however you wanna do it. I'm pretty keen on doing custom audio work on my cars so that doesn't seem to complicated to me but it might be a bit daunting for the not so car audio inclined. That kit includes a couple things though it isn't just that small control pad that you see in the Sprint Store picture. It has a control module that you plug an included speaker to OR plug it directly to your radio and I think it also does FM transmission, don't remember now. I do know that I did a little research for this type of device and this one seemed to be the best one out there. Last edited by nttdemented; 11-20-2008 at 04:56 PM. |
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