I have a question, as far as i understand the telephone connects to this device using bluetooth, my car has an 3.5 jack audio in too. Does this device connects to the telephone to the device using bluetooth and sending the audio through the aux built in audio out to my car stereo 3.5 jack audio in or the audio can only travel from FM transmitter? I live in a very big city and most of the frequencies are used. Help me. I have a question, as far as i understand the telephone connects to this device using bluetooth, my car has an 3.5 jack audio in too. Does this device connects to the telephone to the device using... » Read More I have a question, as far as i understand the telephone connects to this device using bluetooth, my car has an 3.5 jack audio in too. Does this device connects to the telephone to the device using bluetooth and sending the audio through the aux built in audio out to my car stereo 3.5 jack audio in or the audio can only travel from FM transmitter? I live in a very big city and most of the frequencies are used. Help me. « Show Less
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This device connects to your car audio ONLY through FM transmitter. If you already have an aux in, you should use it instead. A simple cable from your phones headphone jack to the aux-in on your stereo should work.
1046505
this device will let you connect via a radio frequency to your car and you connect your phone to the device via bluetooth.while it's connected you can also take calls via speakerphone which you will hear through your speakers. The audio jack in your car can be you separately but cannot be used with this device you would have to plug it into your phone then to the audio jack.
1046506
I did not have to connect my phone to the device or the device to a jack. Purely a bluetooth unit. Hope that helps. Full disclosure though, per my review, I was not happy with the item.
435789
Actually, this nifty little box is a Bluetooth RECEIVER, not a transmitter. The only audio connector on it is LINE OUT, which you would plug into your stereo system amplifier. That would permit you, for example, to play music on your smartphone (via Bluetooth) through your audio system. What you're looking for is a Bluetooth TRANSMITTER, which has a LINE IN connector, and broadcasts to your speakers, which contain Bluetooth receivers. Although I haven't tried it, the GadgetZone DBPower Portable Stereo Wireless Bluetooth Transmitter/Adapter Dongle here on Amazon looks like it might be a good choice. This is a little black box that plugs into a minijack (such as a headphone jack) and broadcasts to Bluetooth devices. It could be used for your application, but you might have to get an adapter to plug it into your old stereo system. Note that most devices (probably all) like this don't connect to speaker terminals -- they have to receive "line level" signals like those from an "audio out" jack or some headphone jacks. What you want to do is really very easy in principle, but your "old stereo" might not let you just plug and play without a little more fiddling. It depends on what kind of connections are available on the stereo.
1926479
You would be better off pluggin your earbuds to your phone instead of connecting your phone via bluetooth to the device and connecting in turn to earbud....the best use of the adater in car where you dont have bluetooth connectivity to car audio but have a aux input as the device works well within few feets
2240861
If the car has bluetooth, then why would you need another bluetooth device? If your car cant stream music (A2DP), most slightly older car dont, then this device will stream music through the aux port and has a Mic to make calls, but all i use it for is to stream music from my android Nexus 7 and I love it.
2160719
You can connect one phone at a time. If there are two phones with Bluetooth in the car it will connect to the first phone it happens to see. For example, if it sees my phone first it will not drop the connection and reconnect to my wife's phone if she gets an incoming call. To get that to work I would need to turn off Bluetooth on my phone and wait for it to attach to her phone. Then it may attach to her phone. As far as I can tell there is no 'prioritization' scheme for it to connect to more than one phone in response to events like the phone ringing or to select a preferred phone for outgoing telephone calls.
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In order to use the Sony Bluetooth iPod transmitter, your car has to support A2DP (Advanced Audio Distribution Profile.. streaming stereo audio). Please note that A2DP is NOT THE SAME as the handsfree profile you use for making phonecalls. As long as it does it should work fine. I use bluetooth iPod in conjunction with a JVC KD-AVX33, which does support Bluetooth audio devices and the sound is crystal clear. I've noticed that Bluetooth audio often gets a bad reputation due to a number of cell phones with crappy audio quality, which may sound acceptable coming out of the phone speaker, but really sounds pretty horrible when coming out of a nice pair of speakers. Anyway, I digress. To sum up, bluetooth quality sounds great with this transmitter. Whether or not it works with your car just depends on whether your car stereo supports Bluetooth audio (A2DP). Hope that helps.
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I have not tried it this way. I have it on a speaker in my home to connect it via bluetooth. I have a bluetooth mechanism that is specifically for the car that has a plug that goes into the auxiliary outlet of the car.
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It works great out side the car as a speaker phone and for music/podcasts.I use it this way all the time. You can use it while it is charging too. It is a challenge to hold the unit without pressing one of the buttons.I have mine paired with an iPhone 5s and it works great. I have never been able to make the FM transmitter work as well as its predecessor did. The built in speaker is generally loud enough that its not needed.
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I don't use it that way, but apparently it would be just like using a bluetooth headset with your cellphone in your car. You use the phone to dial, but you use the headset to speak and listen. Remember in the ancient days when telephones had a receiver, and you picked it up to talk and listen, but you dialed on the phone at the other end of the wire? It's just like that, but without a wire.
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This car has an aux cable which has 3.5mm plugs to connect to your car. If your car has Bluetooth media connection you will not need this as that is the whole purpose of this. Basically you connect your phone via Bluetooth to the new potato device then via FM transmitter or aux cable connect the new potato device to the car. Pretty simple setup really.
1248113
Two questions I have regarding the 1490LMT1. What dies Bluetooth really mean? a. Does this feature merely connect to your phone for hands-free communication? b. Does this feature allow the unit to work through your Bluetooth ready sound system so that voice commands are heard through the car's speakers?
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No, this device sends you phone music through an FM transmitter that transmits an FM channel that you receive on your car radio's FM. You can select the channel frequency/number you want to use. ie a channel that is not being used by a radio station. It also has an av out so if your car radio has an av in you can use that instead of the FM as the sound is a little better. A lot of car radios dont have av in so hence the FM transmitter.
1196957
I cannot speak for every device or every Bluetooth stack implementation. Here is what I know from my own devices. I can connect my phone to both my standard Bluetooth headset I use while driving (Plantronics Voyager Legend) and my workout headset (Plantronics BackBeat FIT) at the same time. Music will only play out of the one I connected last. If the sound is coming out of my Legend, I can press a button on the FIT and have it transferred to the FIT, but it will not play out of both the FIT and the Legend, and I cannot switch back from the FIT to the Legend (should I want to) without turning off the FIT. I am sure this has something to do with the Bluetooth profiles for each device, but I am not a Bluetooth specialist, so I cannot provide any further details. I do not have any Bluetooth speakers (like a Jambox or a Pill or anything like that) so I do not know how it works in combination with those kinds of devices. Additionally, I do not have any other phones (besides my iPhone) to test this with. Those are my results. Your mileage may vary.
1221022
This is designed for a car without bluetooth, but you can still use this module if you can't pair up with your bluetooth in your car. As long as you have an Aux in port on you car, you can use this...regardless of if you car has bluetooth or not. Strange that you can't use the bluetooth on your car right now...
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Does anyone with an iPhone have experience with using this product? I, like the original questioner, need this device just for media/music. My car's Bluetooth is set up for Phone calling/receiving. Apple iPhone does not allow you to set up "Phone only" and "Media only" profiles for Bluetooth like Android does. I'm curious to hear from someone who has used this and owns an iPhone.
2262693
No. The phone audio is not routed over the Bluetooth connection to the device. Only music/alert sounds are routed. You can use this for your music and if you get a phone call the audio remains in the iPhone 5. I own this device and use it with the iPhone 5.
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I haven't had any problems with it. I talk to my boyfriend all the time on speaker phone and without it. If it's difficult to hear them while driving I recommend having a radio with an aux port. If the radio is Bluetooth compatible just sync it with you're smart phone or use a generic aux cable and plug it into your headphone port on your smartphone. Either way this patches it through your car speakers. This works really well especially if it's windy or bad weather. My bf says when I do that it sounds very clear.