<p>Has anyone had any experience with VR3 Bluetooth®
Speaker Phone
It goes on your rearview mirror and allows you to make hands free calls without having anything in your ear.</p>
<p>No, but we bought 2 Motorola products for our cars that go on the visor. I paid $50 or less for mine, and my H paid a bit more for his (regular retail is now $60 now). We are very happy with them.</p>
<p>Cons: you need to remember to turn them on before driving, and you need to charge it when it signals that it needs it. </p>
<p>Pros: Sound is great, it is small (palm sized) and easy to use.</p>
<p>None really, I can’t wear em. I always think I’m part of the “away team” that has the wrong tunic on…;)</p>
<p>I have a Parrot blue tooth hands free device installed in my car that picks up my phone from anywhere within 30 feet (which, of course, includes the trunk) and works well in my convertible, even on the freeway. The sound comes through the normal stereo speakers, the mic is installed on the rearview mirror, but can be installed other places in a car with an immovable roof. It doesn’t do great on the voice recognition for dialing, but I don’t tend to call people from my car. I receive calls in my car quite often, and in autoanswer mode it works great.</p>
<p>I am just an old foggy but they just look incredibly silly to me. In the car, okay. Hands free is a good thing(though not nearly as good as most people think. But walking around in public with a silly looking thing hanging off the side of your face??? Yeah a real fashion statement. And its so difficult reaching for that cell phone in your pocket or purse.</p>
<p>Heck I forget my cell phone most of the time when I leave the house for other than work, very content to leave it my home office desk.</p>
<p>Bluetooth is a protocol for wireless transmission, not a headset design. The speaker phone designs for cars do not include headsets, or ear buds, or anything that hangs off the side of your face.</p>
<p>Thanks everyone. UCDAlum-what your using sounds interesting. We are in Ca and with the law of handfree going into enforcement we are looking for handsfree options. I don’t use my phone much. My kids joke that they can rarely reach me since half the time I leave the phone in the car. All of my car calls are usually short and from kids. If I have to call I try to pull over. My care actually has Bluetooth but my phone isn’t compatible. Another option for me is to buy a new phone that will work with my car.
My husband is out of the office daily and does use his cell phone in the car. What UCDAlum has might be a better option for him if the quality of sound is better. Where did you buy it? (if you don’t mind sharing)
Northeastmom- does the Motorola device allow you to see who is calling before you pick up the call. Also does it allow for voice dialing? The model I asked about is available from Costco and I think it is about 60 dollars.</p>
<p>I cannot personally vouch for this device, however I know several people who have ditched their regular Bluetooths for the Jawbone. My DH says it’s worlds better than the Bluetooth.</p>
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<p>mom60, I don’t think so, I think that you’d need to glance at the phone to see who is calling (not a good idea while driving). I just answer. As far as dialing, I have my numbers programmed into my mobile phone, so I just hit a number, ie: 1 for my home number, 2 for H’s office, etc. I don’t find it to be a problem, but could see how some people would prefer something more sophisticated. The mobile device that I have, I am pretty sure that H bought at Costco. He liked mine, so he bought the same one for himself, but it had gone up in price a bit. Also, mine was on a special when he purchased it. For me this is good enough. My H talks on the phone while driving much more than I do, and he is pleased enough. What we both like is the clarity. My H finds it clearer than the bluetooth that he had installed in his old car. He recently purchased a new car and we did not want to pay what they were asking for factory installed bluetooth. This $60 device works well enough for us.</p>
<p>I have a dissenting view on the Motorola Bluetooth speakerphone. I also have one and find that is is barely tolerable if there is any road/wind noise. Perhaps if your car is extremely quiet (or if you only use it at low speeds) it might work OK. With mine, I can not use it at all at highway speeds.</p>
<p>It does support voice dialing - at least conceptually. However, there is a degradation in the voice quality that the speech recognition algorithm in the cell phone receives (the voice dialing is actually performed by the cell phone, not the speakerphone). Sometimes my device delivers my voice to the phone with enough quality for the phone to recognize it but quite often is doesn’t recognize the name. Also, the method to activate the voice dialing on the Motorola is very similar to what needs to be done to activate the redial feature. Once I was trying to activate the voice dialing and I kept calling a telephone number. After a couple of such misdials I realized that the perturbed-sounding voice on the other end was my brother in law.</p>
<p>One other thing. Bluetooth has a slight delay associated with it. When only one side of the call involves a Bluetooth device, the delay doesn’t cause much of a problem. However, if both sides of the call involve Bluetooth, the echo cancellers in the devices may have a hard time dealing with the delay. I was talking to my son from my Motorola device and he was on his cell phone with a Bluetooth headset. The echo was so bad for him that I had to go off the Motorola device and just use the cell phone.</p>
<p>Anyone driving while on the phone should be arrested for inattentive driving.</p>
<p>fundingfather, we have never experienced an echo, or any problem with it in wind. We are fine with both of our cars using it on a highway. Interesting info though.</p>