Mobile Phone

[InEssex]

Anyone have any suggestion as to what sort of hands free kit I should have fitted to my car? I need something that will still be effective taking into account the amount of noise made by the car. Any recommendations to companies in Essex or nearby?

[theblacktuscks]

I have the same car and in Nebula black! I'm in the Telecoms business and IMHO i think you are better off with a headset and a microphone with your handset set to automatic answer. Any hands free kit has a major problem in competing with the glorious background noise of the spped 6!

HTH Clive

[plipton]

theblacktuscks said:

I'm in the Telecoms business

Me too - I use a Bluetooth headset in my left ear and the phone next to the handbrake - works a treat, but I have to press the answer button when it rings.

I tried a PAMA blueooth HF kit the other day, but although it paired with my phones (ericsson T39 and P800) it wouldn't make or receive calls. I think I'll get a proper Ericsson kit and glass-mount antenna so as to avoid drilling holes (cunningly hidden if I can find a decent location - not in the front NS wing like the radio antenna!)

>> Edited by plipton on Sunday 16th November 21:28

[st george]

I have a nokia blue tooth kit - works great, however i understand that with new law we wont be able to leave the phone next to the gear stick. It has top be in a fixed cradle.

TRS

[PLA]

Blue tooth is great until you try and use it with the roof down. Also I understand that you don't have to put the phone in a cradle you just must not hold the phone. So it can be in your pocket or in the boot as Blue tooth works upto 10m.

[S1X OK]

I use a Jabra bluetooth headset which works fine for conversation but the problem is when setting the voice tags for the voice dialing it was done without a backing vocal from a Speed 6. Consequently the voice dialing doesn't register when driving the Tusc. I've not tried re-recording the tags in the Tuscan yet, but I imagine the waveform identity would depend on the engine speed. This means driving the car at the speed I'd expect to be travelling when talking on the phone, pressing all the right buttons to record the names, reading the display so I know what name to speak etc. and not be spotted by Mr P. Maybe I'll wait until the nice weather comes along.
Incidentally, the law states that you should not hold the phone and only touch the buttons for dialling/texting if the phone is held in a cradle.

[allanm]

I use a Sony Ericsson T610, and a Sony Ericsson HBH-35 bluetooth headset, and can usually use the voice-dialing and voice-answering unless I'm really pumping the right foot (and I live in Scotland guys !). Strangely though, the newer HBH-60 headset which I tried didn't work as well (although it was smaller and looked less naff). Since read somewhere that Sony Ericsson don't recommend the latter for use in cars ! -Something to do with the sensistivity of the microphone (which the Tuscan would no doubt aggravate).

Allan