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From: Bob Donald on 14 Jan 2010 23:02
Great, thanks for the update! I've been using the bluetooth headsets and
saw these before, just never heard any personal reviews to push me forward
on it. Definitely have to check it out.

Bob

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> Well, now that it's a couple days past my birthday, my birthday present
> finally came in. It's a Blackberry car speakerphone with stereo FM
> broadcasting for playing toons from the Blackberry phone on the radio.
>
> http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16875988008&cm_re=blackberry_speaker-_-75-988-008-_-Product
>
> Although the frequency response is limited, compared to direct wired
> systems, the sound quality is comparable to a good clean FM radio
> station, and since my ancient 1995 Honda doesn't have a direct input for
> portable audio, this was a quick and easy way to get my pocket full of
> toons to play wirelessly to the car stereo.
>
> The speakerphone is very good sounding and you can either use it's
> built-in speaker, or FM transmit the person you are talking to over your
> FM radio.
>
> If you've got music playing and a call comes in, when you hit the
> button, it pauses the music and takes the call. When the call is ended,
> the music resumes. All in all, it's a pretty cool little bluetooth car
> speakerphone, and it should work with other phones too.
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From: Bob Donald on 15 Jan 2010 00:33
> If you don't have a direct connect port on your car audio system, it's
> an easy way to get connected. You can set the frequency to whatever
> you want. I found the most dead air on my radio at 107.1, so I put
> it there. It'll get a road test tomorrow for both music and hands
> free phone use. In particular, I want to see how the FM deals with
> an ever changing landscape of RF interference.

I sure dont, and I aint paying the 2k that the dealership wants for the
aftermarket sync. I also dont want to be dragging the zune around with me
all the time anyways, I have a hard enough time remembering to bring my
phone in from the car LOL! It would be so much easier to dump the tunes to
the phone and pump them through the stereo as well as the on-air phone
calls. Looking forward to hearing your test results as I'm due for a new
phone soon anyways :)

Bob



From: R. Lamar Duffy on 15 Jan 2010 07:41
>>Looking forward to hearing your test results as I'm due for a new
> phone soon anyways :)

Likewise. My problem w/ any wireless phone system has been, B/T road noise
& my tinnitus, I can't get the earpiece loud enough to understand speech
over the phone. I've wondered how a solution like this might do.

Lamar


From: Bob Donald on 15 Jan 2010 11:48
Awesome! Sounds like it would fit my situation perfect, thanks for the
update. Have you had a chance to test it on incoming calls? I'm sure it
works well, just curious as to the interaction. Like you, I can live with
the trade-off, as anything I'd be demo'ing in the car would be burned to CD
anyways. Makes me want to get a ventriloquist dummy, call a buddy, and look
for stop lights :) Then again, with my class of friends it's probably not
the best idea in Detroit City. They'd get me shot and think it's funny.


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>>>>Looking forward to hearing your test results as I'm due for a new
>>> phone soon anyways :)
>>
>> Likewise. My problem w/ any wireless phone system has been, B/T road
>> noise & my tinnitus, I can't get the earpiece loud enough to
>> understand speech over the phone. I've wondered how a solution like
>> this might do.
>
> Well the music test on the way to my office went well. Only once did I
> even get any static, and it was like a quick "ftt ftt ftt" as I drove
> through an intersection. For not having to run any wires, I'm impressed
> with the sound quality. The main thing it lacks it a little bit of high
> frequency sparkle, but I can live with that as a trade off to having to
> switch my head unit out for something that has a wired input, and with a
> wired input, I wouldn't be able to have my phone in my shirt pocket.
>
> I've made one call with it so far, and it was while playing music. When
> I hit the button, the music paused and I got the prompt "say a command",
> so I said "call home". It rang my house and, when my wife answered I
> said, "so how's the speakerphone sound?". She said it sounded like I was
> on a regular handset, and I had the ability to turn her volume up and
> down using my car radio volume, which was cool. I got no feedback, even
> though I had it turned up fairly loud.
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