Bluetooth Car Kit News

For sometime now, SatNav systyems have included Bluetooth hands-free kits, however the audio quality has been a average to poor and as such they have been useful primarily only as SatNav systems with the Bluetooth hands-free capabilities largely underused.

Tom Tom, with the launch of the Go 720 have improved the feature set and now provide a sleek slimdevice with a host of features.

Although there is a large 13 cm LCD touchscreen, the device itself is slim, so can be taken easily with you once you leave your car. There is an enhanced hands-free kit with a new quality sound system that links to your mobile phone through Bluetooth and includes optimised acoustic design with enhanced noise reduction, echo cancellation and an automatic answer feature to make sure that you can take your calls completely hands-free.

In looking at the SatNav features, the Tom Tom Go 720 has options that allow you to customise maps so that if you travel a route regularly you can indicate roadworks or blocked streets, or where street names change. These collections can then automatically be shared via the Tom Tom ‘Home’ service.

There is an integrated MP3 player or you can connect your iPod directly to the Tom Tom Go 720, and music or navigation instructions can be played straight through the car stereo through built-in FM transmitter.

This is integration of technology at its best and Tom Tom now have a device that may start to rival separate hands-free systems and it means that you do not need a variety of devices such as an FM transmitter, iPod connector and Bluetooth hands-free car Kit. Finally one little tweak that you my either like or loathe is the ability to record your own driving instructions with a customised voice such as your children. If you’re looking for a SatNav with built-in Bluetooth hands-free or indeed just a hands-free kit but would like a SatNav kit as well, the Tom Tom Go 720 may be the device to you.

        

The Venturi Mini is a Bluetooth handsfree kit, with an FM transmitter, that can also recharge your phone, direct from the car’s cigarette lighter.

Stream music from your mobile or MP3 player and then take your calls through the speakers of your radio.

Easy to use - just plug it into the cigarette lighter, and tune in the radio!

        

Whilst there are a great number of Bluetooth car Kit is available, the chances are that they will not connect into your existing in car entertainment system, meaning that you end up with an additional box to clutter up your car dashboard.

An alternative you may want to consider is retrofitting either an entirely new in car entertainment system, or if the option is available, modifying your existing system.
One manufacturer that offers such kit is JVC. The KS-BTA200 Bluetooth Interface comes and with a small microphone, but otherwise connects directly into your existing JVC car stereo.

it is compatible with the following models:

KD-NX5000

KD-AVX11

KW-AVX800

KD-DV7301

KD-G731

KW-XG701

        

Parrot, already an established manufacture of hands-free Bluetooth car kit`s, have announced a product suitable for motorcycles and scooters.

The innovative handlebar control connects wirelessly to the speaker and microphone attached to your helmet, and via Bluetooth to your mobile phone which you can leave in your pocket or bag.

In addition to promising crystal clear sound, and volumes that increases with your speed, the kit has an FM RDS radio (it actually speaks the name of the station when it is tuned in!) and the capability to connect to a Music player on your Bluetooth mobile, or via a cable to your MP3 player.

Full information on the SK4000 Motorcycle handsfree kit