Newbie Q - Mobile Phone via head unit

[Duncan]

Since I'm a newbie (in here at least), I thought I'd ask a simple q. And yes, I did do a search first

I've got one of those mobile phone car kits for my nokia 8250, but I was looking at getting a new car and its pretty inconvenient to buy a kit for a given phone and have to change the kit if I buy a new phone.

So.....that was a long winded way of saying, is there such a thing as a head unit that can connect to a mobile via bluetooth wireless, and if so, has anyone bought/used one?

[2rismo]

You could get a bluetooth car-kit to use with a whole number of bt equipped phone but even these will prob only work with *that* brand of phone

They *are* cool in that you don't neccessarily have to change cradles with each phone, though.

Headunit? Hope you're not talking about stereo headunits?!!? All you could od is use the yellow wire from the car kit to mute the stereo when a call comes in.

Hope this helps a bit...

Adrian

[NA_R33]

buy a "car baby" no wires the thing simply clips over ur phone and u tune ur stereo into the frequency it tells u to. they work great and totaly transportable and only cost about 70 bucks

[2rismo]

you can get them for 40 bux at any mobile phone shop and they suck, dude.... i wouldn't bother

[bless_you]

alpine make a hu, CDA-7998, i have it.

it butts up to a nokia and you can acess any nokia menu from it, sms, that sort of thing... its great

pitty that the hu costs $1500 retail

[SXY R33]

ON bret bewtons GMA they where selling a car kit that goes through your FM Fquency and you hear the conversation via your spekers.

it was about $80 bucks.

dont know if that helps

[Duncan]

thanks for the responses everyone!

bless_you, this is the head unit you mean?

http://www.alpine.com.au/product_pages/fan...ce_page_new.htm

this is close to the sort of thing i was looking for but its limited in # of models it supports, thats why I was hoping for some standards based wireless.

For the guys that mentioned the FM receiver thingies, the speaker thru the radio bit makes sense, but how does the mike work?

2rismo, got a link to one of those bluetooth cradle products.

[bless_you]

yeah thats the one pal,

but if you already have your HU, then i guess its out of the question.

[2rismo]

umm.... search for smarteq as a brand... umm... nokia.com ??

Adrian

[Duncan]

lol! smarteq! recognised the pic, now I know the brand of my current car kit!

their "universal kit" looks interesting:

http://www.smarteq.com.au/docs/productBroc...salBrochure.pdf

anyone used these?

there was some stuff at nokia.com.au that they have a kit but no details...bastards....

thanks all

[2rismo]

I just bought my THIRD smarteq kit and they smash the genuine kits for reliability.... love them.