Bluetooth solution for Bluetoothless Cars - Motorola Q Forum

qwho · 12-28-2006, 07:58 AM

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There you'll find a bluetooth device that plugs into your cigarette lighter port, that supports bluetooth hands free, and instead of a small speaker, it has an FM transmitter that allows for not only phone comunication, but stereo audio as well. It says that it was due in stock by the 26th, I might order one. If anyone has one of these let me know how it works!

GWK · 12-28-2006, 09:02 PM

Don't have one, but if you try it Please post how it works out

colblaha · 12-28-2006, 10:03 PM

Scosche makes a bluetooth stereo receiver that also offers hands-free talking. I bought it and I've been having a ton of problems.

My goal was to keep my OEM stereo in my car and adding a bluetooth receiver for streaming stereo audio AND hands-free talking through the car speakers (I'd prefer not to use a little speakerphone device).
I did just a few days of searching and bought the Scosche wireless receiver w/microphone:
http://www.scosche.com/scosche_bluet...22&ItemID=UBRH

It's intended for 2 diff sources: an mp3 player for music and a cell phone for talking. I figured, the Q has both and I could pair to both the hands-free and stereo headset connections on the receiver (like the Moto bluetooth headphones that do both)

Not so much.

When I pair to both profiles, I can listen to the music, but I can't hear calls when I make them. The only way around this is to only pair to the stereo headset and answer calls by hand. If i only pair the hands-free, and check "Use hands-free for standard audio," the music is way sh!tty, but i can make my calls throught the mic.
^--Has anyone encountered this before or have any advice so i can listen to the non-sh!tty audio and make/take calls?

On a product rant, my music is clipped, hot, saturated...like when you turn the equalizer way up on all the frequencies on a home stereo. I think there's a gain stage somewhere in the unit that just boosts the crap out of the audio instead of passing a pre-amp signal. It doesn't sound good at all, even with the Output Level knob on the Scosche receiver turned all the way down. The volume (neither earpiece nor windows media) on the phone doesn't affect output of the UBRH.
^--Any product help here?

Finally, has anyone come across a product (that works) to listen to stereo music and have the capability to talk hands-free too?

Thanks in advance!

qwho · 12-29-2006, 07:34 AM

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Originally Posted by GWK

Don't have one, but if you try it Please post how it works out

Sure thing.

pyrobling · 12-29-2006, 08:12 AM

Spent few years working at Car Toys. I helped Alishea in corporate choose a lot of the devices they carry now in the stores. CLA with the FM transmitter is functional but not a good investment.

Best I have seen is the Parrot CFK100...at least I think I still remember that as the model number. It gets installed and interfaced with your current stereo. However, it is removable and you can DL your phonebook with BT and it will have a Caller ID near your answer button.

-Adam @ VZW

colblaha · 12-29-2006, 01:18 PM

Lucky for you (bad for me) I just found something like I was trying with the Scosche UBRH, but it's from Parrot. It's designed to play music from your phone and take/make calls through a mic and your car speakers:

http://www.parrot.biz/usa/products/parrotmk6000

There's even a cheesy video:

http://www.parrot.biz/uk/video/

The cheapest I found this is for $180 before shipping.

eb-tech · 04-12-2007, 02:48 PM

There's a company called Satechi (satechi.com) that actually has an inexpensive Bluetooth FM Transmitter. It plugs into your car cigarette lighter and allows you to sync your bluetooth phone to it. You can take or receive phone calls through your car stereo, handsfree and no wires. You can even hook your mp3 player to it and play your music through the car stereo also. It will interrupt the music when you get a call and resume the music when you're done. I have one and it works GREAT!

jaja714 · 02-17-2008, 01:25 PM

I hope everyone posting "recommendations" and "advice" regarding this topic actually has one of these installed and working in your car!!!

Can anyone claim this for a non FM Transmitter bluetooth receiver?

Lucky13MN · 02-17-2008, 07:31 PM

I had one of those Satechi Bluetooth FM transmitters, it sucked.

Good customer service, bad product (at least in my experience).

I've had great experiences with Parrot however (not no experience with their FM transmitter style).

Eric N. · 03-05-2008, 10:55 AM

Sorry to dig up an old topic but, I have the Moto ROKR T505 and it works pretty well.. I live in Northern VA just outside of Washington D.C. and almost every radio station has some thing on it.. The T505 does a pretty good job of finding a weak station and using it... CNET had some nice things to say about it too in a video although they haven't reviewed it yet..

http://reviews.cnet.com/4660-3424_7-...html?tag=vid.1

I've only had a couple of times where it actually sounded "staticy" but, overall it's worked better then I thought that it would..

I use the T505 with my Verizon Q for calls and my Samsung YP-P2 for music but, you can stream music and take calls from the Q if you want. For me though, the Samsung MP3 player sounds better for music then the Q..