Stereo bluetooth car kits?

ceejay

Anyone know if you can get bluetooth car kits that are compatible with the bluetooth stereo headset profile? I was wondering because I'm thinking of getting a SE K800i when one of the operators other than Three get it, and would like to be able to use the music player on it via my car stereo, as well as having it act as a hands-free car kit. Does such a thing even exist?

Ciarán.

DublinWriter

ceejay wrote:

Does such a thing even exist?
Ciarán.

Don't think so. I just bought the new Pioneer 9800BT. Basically this headunit acts as the hands free kit.

billbond4

The Sony MEX-BT5000 has the A2DP profile, so when you pair the K800i, you just press source on the Radio and you should be able to scroll through the tracks on your phone, as if it were a part of the radio.
There on sale on ebay.

ceejay

That Sony head unit looks very interesting, but it wasn't quite what I had in mind - I don't particularly want to change my existing unit, so I was thinking more of a separate unit.

Turns out that Sony Ericsson do a non-bluetooth car unit with a car stereo adapter that does what I'm looking for, but a bluetooth device would be preferable.

Ciarán.

billbond4

I have the SE Car kit HCA-60 (with K750i Holder HCH-61), and the Stereo Music Box HCE-26.
This only plays Music through the front two speakers of the car, to get music to all for speakers I had to do a bit of rewiring.


I also tried the FM Stereo Transmitter (MMR-60) that plugs straight into the bottom of the phone, no wiring for that

ceejay

Hmm, that sounds interesting, especially as iTrips and things like it are going to be legal by the end of the year. What was the quality like with that? Did you run into any problems with it? Do you know if you could use a regular bluetooth headset with this at the same time, i.e. to make and receive calls over the headset while listening to music via the radio?

Ciarán.

DirtyDog

Interesting Sony stereo, would have to see the menu's etc before getting one though - the latest sony stereo I have that has the dot matrix screen is near impossible to see when the sun is shining..

billbond4

Never mind making the iTrip legal, I know a few people with them !! Its a ridiculous law.
Worked fine for me, just needed to have the phone+Transmitter near car stereo.
You will have no probs with the FM Transmitter and using a bluetooth earpiece, Music will just pause on the Phone.

ceejay

That sounds like it just might do the trick then. Where did you get the MMR-60? I presume somewhere online

Ciarán.

billbond4

Yeah I bought it off ebay as currently it is illegal to buy FM Transmitters in Ireland,
Would you be interested in buying it off me?

Urban Weigl

billbond4 wrote:

Yeah I bought it off ebay as currently it is illegal to buy FM Transmitters in Ireland,
Would you be interested in buying it off me?

Which explains why Lidl Ireland were selling FM transmitters the other day. :rolleyes:

billbond4

I dont know how Lidl can sell FM Transmitters in Ireland, as COMREG say they will be making short range transmitters Legal in Ireland soon.

http://www.comreg.ie/_fileupload/publications/PR050906.pdf

billbond4

I see that Aldi are selling a Bluetooth MP3 CD Car radio on Sunday 17th

Brianb8802

ceejay wrote:

Anyone know if you can get bluetooth car kits that are compatible with the bluetooth stereo headset profile? I was wondering because I'm thinking of getting a SE K800i when one of the operators other than Three get it, and would like to be able to use the music player on it via my car stereo, as well as having it act as a hands-free car kit. Does such a thing even exist?

Ciarán.

Not sure if your still interested but the nokia ck-20w supports wireless bluetooth music streaming from your phone


Check it out here

And for those with older phones, once you have a nokia pop port phone you can connect wired to the car kit to stream your music