sjo99

Greetings:
First let me say that I am new here so I apologize if I am not doing this exactly correct! I am a PROUD owner of a new 2005 RX330 with Premium Plus package. I want to install a bluetooth car kit so that I can use my Treo650 phone. However, I am SO overwhelmed with what to get. Does anyone have any recommendations on what kit works best with the Lexus or the Treo650? Thanks in advance for the info.....
JT

jazzsax

Just to be clear, you don't have the navigation system, right?
What features are you expecting?

sjo99

Correct. I do not have the Nav system. I do want to be able to voice dial, and answer the phone.
Thanks,

jazzsax

Sorry, can't help you. Since you don't have the nav system, anything that works aftermarket for your phone should work. I would assume that there's something out there, and the obvious answer is to go ask your local phone provider. But you've probably done that.

Kansas

From the PalmOne website: http://www.palmone.com/us/support/do...html#supported

Kansas

I assume you noticed in the PalmOne website list that the only non-OEM bluetooth carkits currently certified by PalmOne for the Treo 650 are from Parrot: http://www.driveblue.com/

The Parrot kits look nice and you will likely find opinions about them on this and on the Howard forums http://www.howardforums.com/ which has a section devoted to Bluetooth and which includes this post from a Parrot employee http://www.howardforums.com/showthre...hreadid=511176

I feel really fortunate that http://www.dashmount.co.uk/ is selling a "converter cradle" that allows the new tiny Nokia Bluetooth "pop port" phones like the 6230 to work in traditional Nokia car kits like we have. I noticed this offering just last week.

Hopefully your RX330's audio system has an easily found mute point where you can connect the Bluetooth kit's mute wire. An electrical diagram for your car might show a mute point (labeled TEL MUTE on the diagram for our LS) or a really good phone installer could likely figure it out. We missed a lot of incoming calls while listening to loud music until we got the audio mute to work in our cars.

farzad

would be nice to find an aftermarket kit that leverages the microphone in the rearview mirror as well as the speaker system in the car if thats possible. if its not possible then a stand alone speaker system might be ok but muting of the cars audio system would be very important.

must have:

car audio mute on inbound calls
rear view microphone integration

desirable:

car stereo speakerphone

my .02

anyone found/done anything like this?

farzad

anyone installed either the parrot

http://www.parrot.biz/usa/products/3200ls-color

or the motorola

http://www.amazon.com/Motorola-IHF10...655632-3043664

or the BlueAnt

http://www.amazon.com/Bluetooth-Hand...655632-3043664

does the Lexus have the auxilliary 'mute' option that seems to be employed by the products above?

Kmotoring

We used the Grom Audio Lexus Integration kit and added Bluetooth to it on our 2006 RX we previously owned and it worked pretty well.

Carver

Treo 650, blast from the past! I loved that phone! I still have mine around here somewhere, I think i got it in '06 and went to the iphone in early '08.

1koolfella

iTrader: (1)

WOW!!! Treo 650, I had one also and it maybe laying around the house some where lol. I went to the 755P and to the Palm Pre. I had to look at the date of this post, because I know I don't always up date my phone every 2 years but I was about to say dang 2012 with a Treo 650?

After market radio still doing well. I'm about to update the Axxess steering wheel firmware in a few day.

Carver

Yeah, my Kenwood is doing well, never misses a beat. I desperately need to update the maps though. I went from the 650 to the iPhone because of GPS. I waited until the next model came out, no GPS so I jumped ship and haven't looked back. My contract is up in August and I'm seriously considering the Samsung Note II. I think Apple is going to get ordinary without Jobs.