Music & Hands Free FM Transmitter

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Here is a Music & Hands Free FM Transmitter from Verizon that is pretty sweet! I bought one of these last week and so far I'm impressed with the quality. It will set you back $130 bones though...

http://www.myventuri.com/

http://www.verizonwireless.com/b2c/s...essoryId=33022

Here are some details:

It has a hi res OLED screen that is white text on black background so it's easy to view in daylight and at night. It's not too bright at night, but it doesn't have a setting to change the brightness. It shows the current FM station by default and it will display the phone number when some one is calling. You can download your phone book to it as well, but I haven't figured how to download it from my XV6800 yet.

There are two buttons and a scroll wheel. The button on the top left is for changing FM stations. The one on the right is for the configuration menu: phone device type, pairing, paring reset, and FM on/off. Then scroll wheel works well for navigating through the menus. The wheel responds to the speed you turn it and it has a similar feel to the scroll wheel on the phone. There are also four buttons on the face surrounding the display and scroll wheel: Select Phone, Select Tunes, Answer/Play/Pause, and Hang-up/Stop.

The Bluetooth A2DP stereo over FM is killer! This is the main reason I bought this thing. The only drawback is finding a good FM station to transmit on, but you have the full FM spectrum to chose from. Overall, it works well and the sound quality is great. Also, no cables - hooray!

It has two (in & out) 3.5mm stereo jacks on the left side, and standard USB jack on the right side for charging 5v devices. I think this is a nice bonus if you want to hook up your other MP3 player...

The hands-free works very well. It will play a chime over the speakers and beep from the device to let you know a call is coming in. It will pause you music if the player supports it. The sound through the speakers is full sounding and not "tin can" sounding. The mic sound good on the other end of the call, and the noise canceling actually works - at least with my windows cracked @ 75mph.

I hope this helps someone who's in the market for one of these devices.

for the touch it does not sync up the phone book so it will probably not sync the titan's either.

Damn, the radio i have is the only year they did not put RDS on their units. BAH.

Other than that it looks pretty cool.

I have a Moto Rokr T5 on the way from Newegg. It looks like it has the same functions minus the audio in and out jacks. It was about $80.

I'll post some thoughts when it gets here.

link please

Sorry it's T505 not T5.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16875982146

Moto T505

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I ordered one of these T505s as well. Will report back but the reviews basically sound positive and it appears it should work as expected.

Mine came today. I haven't used it much yet but so far it seems really nice.

No trouble pairing with the Mogul. The audio streaming sounds really good.

More later.................

now that looks like something I will buy. Nice find.

that looks nice. now details, how is the music and calls, what programs are you using for music and what does it control. And while we are at it, throw in your audio set up in the car as well.

And now..... they are out of stock. BAH

So far the music playback is great. The FM transmitter is very powerful! It plays over the top of other stations with ease.

The channel selection is neat. Push the FM button and a nice british lady tells you which station to tune in. If the current station goes bad (hasn't happened yet) push the button again for a new station.

Sound quality over FM is pretty good as far as I can tell. I have a stock Toyota Tacoma 04 sound system and ears that have been exposed to a lot of loud noise, so take that for what it's worth.

If you take the phone out of range, when you get back in the car just tap the phone key to restore the connection.

Call quality seems fine. I've made a couple of calls today (while parked) and nobody complained so far.

I'm going to try leaving myself a couple messeges tomorrow and see how road noise factors in.

Audio controlls work with HTC Audio Manager and Windows Media but not TCPMP although the sound comes through fine.