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General => General discussion => Topic started by: Jay on 28 January 2012, 20:31
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Can anyone recommend me a BT kit with FM transmitter ? My boss has one that cost around £30 and I'm really impressed with it for making calls and the quality of the sound for MP3 music, not sure on the make.
So any good ones to look out for, for about the same price or less? Must be visor mount or other suitable location.
tia :smiley:
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:rolleyes: shall i move it
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when I read your reply I thought it was going to disappear into the ICE section I've been in like once... maybe twice in 4 years :grin:
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i had a full parrot kit fitted by this bloke.
not sure what else he does
www.justcarkits.co.uk
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That's a bit rich for my blood :grin: but cheers anyway :smiley:
thinking something like this
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Jabra-Cruiser-Bluetooth-Car-Speakerphone/dp/B005FQZ8LU/ref=pd_sim_ce_2
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That's a bit rich for my blood :grin: but cheers anyway :smiley:
thinking something like this
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Jabra-Cruiser-Bluetooth-Car-Speakerphone/dp/B005FQZ8LU/ref=pd_sim_ce_2
How is it powered? I quite fancy one!
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off of the ciggie lighter I think, just ordered that one, think it is the same as my boss's as his radio says "Cruiser" when you tune into it and I'm impressed with his so thought why not?!
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But what car is It for jay ?
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Came today (ordered on the weekend), just got it on charge and the best thing is that it uses Micro-USB B same as my phone so I'll always have a charger in the car for my phone, the wife phone, the Jabra and other gadgets :smiley:
Oh and the Jabra is about the size of a modern 3.5" touch screen phone, also watch out if you do want one get the sunvisor version (£3 more) so it clips on to the visor rather than having to stick it elsewhere.
Now to load up my music collection on my phone!
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Obvious I know. But why didn't you ask your boss where he got his from?
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So do you plan to run a long micro USB cable from the cigarette lighter, up the A pillar and to the sun visor?
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Obvious I know. But why didn't you ask your boss where he got his from?
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I was just looking around to see what else there was, read reviews on these and others, thought I'd ask others that are into cars and devices for cars (my boss isn't) what they use/know etc He couldn't remember where he got it from, only that it was around £30
Heaven forbid a question about a car related device, be asked on a car forum :rolleyes:
No replies (in my budget) and I had the car, thought bugger it I'll get it, if I don't like it I can send it back. So far so good.
Jamie,
It's got a battery and lasts 22hours I read, so good enough for 2 weeks commuting but I might run the cable yet.
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Oh right! That's impressive. Please let us know how you get on with it as I'll be looking to get one at the end of the month!
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Used it last night and this morning, just as good as I was hoping.
Pair with your phone, press the FM button and it tells you what frequency to tune your radio too (press vol +/- to change frequency) start playing your music on your phone through whatever music app you want to use, skip tracks by pressing the back or forward button on the unit.
Brilliant piece of kit :cool:
Oh and if you're using Android (least with CM7.1) you can have your phone lower the music volume when you have a notification / call / navigation prompt instead of pausing the music :smiley:
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That's awesome! Any ideas on how using bluetooth to play your music rather than plugging into an aux will affect your phone's battery life? I've found that it's on Bluetooth 2.1 rather than 3 (or even 4!).
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Dunno, but my phone has been off charge for 12hr 25mins and has had wifi & BT on all day, played music on my journey to and from work via the device and it's got 54% left, but saying that the ROM I have on my phone kills the battery life compared to a stock/modified stock HTC ROM.
Just get a splitter for the ciggie socket so you can charge the Jabra and your phone at the same time :smiley:
I'm lucky because I have a socket in front of the gear stick and behind the centre arm rest, so could charge both at the same time without a splitter :cool:
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Dunno, but my phone has been off charge for 12hr 25mins and has had wifi & BT on all day, played music on my journey to and from work via the device and it's got 54% left, but saying that the ROM I have on my phone kills the battery life compared to a stock/modified stock HTC ROM.
Just get a splitter for the ciggie socket so you can charge the Jabra and your phone at the same time :smiley:
I'm lucky because I have a socket in front of the gear stick and behind the centre arm rest, so could charge both at the same time without a splitter :cool:
So Jay, now that you've had it a while what are your thoughts? I'm looking to buy one come payday.
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It works as advertised :cool:
Only taken a handful of calls in that time, but it's been fine so far and please with it, I've only charged the battery twice - once when I first got it and the second was early last week I think it was, it gets used about an hour to and hour and a half during the weekdays on my commute then however long on the weekends when I'm driving about. Also please that it takes the same microusb-b connector meaning I can have 1 cable in the car to charge the wifes, my mothers, my father in law, my sister in laws etc etc and my phone as well as the B/T kit :smiley: