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Recommendation for Iphone 3G compatible Car Speaker Phone?
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: Vancouver, BC
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I'm looking to pick up a bluetooth speaker phone for car use. Hopefully something at least semi-slim that I can just clip on to my sun visor.
As my province has just implemented a ban on using a hand-held phone, a key requirement that it be able to access the iPhone's contacts and do voice-dialing without relying on the phone itself (no 3GS for me).
The only one I've been able to find after a bit of searching is this one:
Newegg.ca - Parrot Handsfree Visor Mount Bluetooth Speaker / Car Kit Black (MINIKIT SLIM) - Bluetooth Cell Phone Accessories
Can anyone comment on the quality of this unit or recommend an alternative?
I would appreciate any and all feedback.
Cheers.
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Join Date: Jan 2000
Location: Near Antietam Creek
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Join Date: Jul 2002
Location: Toronto, Canada
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A bit more expensive, and not portable, but the Parrot system that's actually fitted to the car works extremely well. Offers a whole bunch of connectivity options. Plugged in (charges the iPhone), bluetooth, line in, USB stick.
I am really happy with mine, excellent sound quality and working voice recognition.
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: Vancouver, BC
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Originally Posted by Phileas 
A bit more expensive, and not portable, but the Parrot system that's actually fitted to the car works extremely well. Offers a whole bunch of connectivity options. Plugged in (charges the iPhone), bluetooth, line in, USB stick.
I am really happy with mine, excellent sound quality and working voice recognition.
Which model do you have?
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Aug 2005
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Well I decided to go ahead and order the Minikit Slim (didn't want to spring for an installed option, preferred to just go with the cheaper portable option). I'll let you guys know how it works out.
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: Vancouver, BC
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Well I've had the Minikit Slim for a day now and so far so good. It paired instantly and automatically sync'd my iPhone's contacts without any problem at all.
So far I can say that the voice recognition for making outgoing calls seems to work quite well; I only ran into a couple of names that it wouldn't recognize and they are fairly obscure names so I wasn't surprised. Recording my own samples for those contacts was easy so it's a non-issue now. The text-to-speech pronunciations are a bit whacky sometimes but not a big deal; it's actually fairly impressive how many of them it has no problem with at all.
On the couple calls I've made the person on the other end said that the microphone quality was excellent; if I hadn't told them that I was on a handsfree (which I did, to try to get a gauge of the quality), they would have thought I was just speaking normally with my phone to my ear.
The speaker quality is also quite good. It's a little thin but not abrasive at all, a noticeable improvement over my Tom Tom GO 930 that I was using as a stop-gap handsfree.
My only complaint is one that I had read before my purchase so can't really begrudge: there is no power indicator light to tell you whether it's turned on or not.
For $80 CAD, I'm very happy with this unit so far. It does everything as advertised and seems to do it all well.
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