Bluetooth FM Transmitter - MyTouch 4g

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I am very interested in a Bluetooth FM Transmitter. I am interested in both technologies; voice and music. I like the idea of the Motorola line t505 and roadster, but i am not sure either of these have voice command for any kind of phone book. It would be nice if i could dial with voice command. And of course it would be nice to have decent audio quality. Any ideas?

BTW - i have a mytouch 4g

I've had the Roadster myself for about a week and a half now, and the MyTouch 4G just a week beyond that. I love having a no-wires setup for both calling and music playback, especially since no aux adapters were ever made for my car's headunit.

The Roadster has a nice little speaker on it for voice communications (don't fret, call audio can still go through FM audio), a decent FM transmitter*, good battery life, and easy to use buttons. I specifically like that you can manually adjust the broadcast frequency across the whole FM band, rather than be married to a handful of presets that may or may not be crowded in your area. A nice benefit, also, is that the Roadster comes with a Micro USB CLA, so I didn't have to buy one for my MT4G. =)

* - It took me a few days to find an optimal freq to use in my area, but once I did, the signal was quite strong)

The Roadster is meant to be used with Motorola's MotoSpeak app which, in my opinion, sucks. I've never been overly impressed by voice recognition in general (let me be the first to point out, that may mean I'm the problem ) but MotoSpeak is resoundingly lacking, both in quality, and capability, when compared to the Genius button.

As for sound quality, your happiness will be dependent on your taste in music, and your ear's attention to detail. The audio sounds compressed; while capable of thumping lows and decently sharp highs, the product seems unable to do both at the same time. Any composition that has rumbling bass and crisp highs in its mix will lose one, or both, depending on the tune. (I can't think of the term for this phenomenon... fairly certain its not dynamic range or frequency response, but is obviously related to both.)

To be honest & fair, though, I'm not sure there is an FM solution that will NOT compress audio.

For what its worth - those are my two cents. Congrats, you drug me out of lurking. =)

Cheers,

CS...

Is there one of these that actually work well?

It compresses it because it has to stay within range of a specific frequency. If you played a high-frequency sound on 102.7 (FM), you could hear it on 102.8 (FM) but it would be a lower frequency. Don't quote me, this is just what I understand of it.
Turn your phone's music volume down and make your car stereo amplify it... it seems to work for me.

I am using this one for about a month now:

Soundfly BT Ultimate Bluetooth Car Fm Transmitter

Works well enough.
You can find it on Amazon.

It's not the cheapest, but I've been rather impressed with the Jabra Cruiser 2. As others have posted you're going to loose some sound quality, it can't be helped, but this one seems to loose less than other.

Review of Motorola T505

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Originally Posted by pnut22r

...I like the idea of the Motorola line t505 and roadster, but i am not sure either of these have voice command for any kind of phone book. It would be nice if i could dial with voice command...

I have owned 2 T505s. The first I left in a rental car in Boston. I have been very happy with the product. You can use it for voice dialing with nothing extra to set up on the phone (at least in CM7). You just press the phone button on the t505 and wait for it to say "Speak now", then say "Call John Smith on Mobile", or whatever. It has a play/pause button that will start your default music player. It has volume controls for the internal speaker, but in FM mode they function as skip forward/backward.

The device has great battery life. It lasted all the way to LA and back from Tucson, AZ on one charge while listening to Pandora the whole drive.

The built-in speaker is pretty decent for phone calls, but sounds pretty tinny when listening to music through it.

My only complaint about the t505 is it's "Auto Channel Selector" for the FM transmitter. It attempts to find a channel that has low interference, but will sometimes pick a channel way to close to a very powerful local radio station. I have to keep pressing the radio button for it to choose a different channel. I would like to be able to specify a specific channel, but after a few tries it seems to eventually settle on one that works fairly well.

Last I saw they have them on sale for under $50 at Newegg.