[aZa]

Next thing u will find is ... "Someone is trying to connect to your HU..." while you are at the traffic light. lol!! Leaving your fones BT on for headset or watever while travelling here is a pain. there are viruses all over.

[iraghava]

Originally Posted by aZa

Next thing u will find is ... "Someone is trying to connect to your HU..." while you are at the traffic light. lol!! Leaving your fones BT on for headset or watever while travelling here is a pain. there are viruses all over.

Agreed & that is why the best thing is to keep your phone hidden, that way you can use the BT handset & not have viruses popping up. I do the same with my phone!

[goldsun]

Originally Posted by aZa

Next thing u will find is ... "Someone is trying to connect to your HU..." while you are at the traffic light. lol!! Leaving your fones BT on for headset or watever while travelling here is a pain. there are viruses all over.

When the technology advances, we get lots of features to fiddle with. At the same time, we should know how to use it. All the BT phones have the feature of not being visible to othet BT enabled gadgets, which one should use it. Similarly, I hope, the BT HUs should also have features from being invisible for gadgets other than those already paired.

Now a days, the inventors are very much aware of the privacy and security requirements and they build such features with the privacy and security requirements in mind. But after all, it is human devised and there will be another human to break the security feature and that's how new viruses and security threats are emerging.

[navin]

Originally Posted by goldsun

When the technology advances....

Yes and all you need is a bluetooth watch to match (see www.fossil.com for more).

[NIP]

is phone connectivity all that the bluetooth HUs are capable of !? i'm thinking i can play music off my cell straight onto the HU thru bluetooth !! that will be cool...!! also...if these HUs come with some basic memory like the sonys 1gig panel HU, it'd be cool to store some new tunes on the HU from the cell phone every now and then maybe i can also right click on some mp3 track on my laptop and say 'send to car...' !!

[hydrashok]

Originally Posted by NIP

is phone connectivity all that the bluetooth HUs are capable of !? i'm thinking i can play music off my cell straight onto the HU thru bluetooth

Yes, nip, I think this is exactly what the manufacturers are really thinking of. If your phone/pda/mp3 player supports the A2DP Bluetooth profile (quite a lot of new phones have this profile), you can stream music straight off your device to the HU in full stereo. Cool, huh?

I recently saw the news of a new iPod accessory (in Engadget or Gizmodo) which lets you stream music off the iPod (with a bluetooth dongle-like attachment) to a bluetooth headset over the A2DP profile. This should work with HUs supporting A2DP. This would be better than using the FM attachment for iPods -- no loss of quality of sound.

[hydrashok]

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Originally Posted by hydrashok

a new iPod accessory (in Engadget or Gizmodo) which lets you stream music off the iPod (with a bluetooth dongle-like attachment)

For folks interested in more info, here's a similar product for the iPod by Belkin.

http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/11/b...nd-tunecast-3/

[nitrous]

Guys,this thread started off a while back.
Id love to know the latest BT head-units available in our market today.
Gunbir,Sam,Navin,....wat do u guys have to say?

[viper]

Hi Guys,

Dont know how I missed this thread. Well at present these products are being sold through us in India with bill and warranty since the past 6 months. Retails for 18k.



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http://www.parrot.biz/usa/products/rhythmnblue
http://www.parrot.biz/usa/products/parrotmk6000





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Hope that helps.

Viper

[navin]

Originally Posted by viper

Hi Guys,
Dont know how I missed this thread. Well at present these products are being sold through us in India with bill and warranty since the past 6 months. Retails for 18k.

Viper, do you represent Parrot in India? If not who does?

[iraghava]

Originally Posted by viper

Well at present these products are being sold through us in India with bill and warranty since the past 6 months. Retails for 18k.

He's mentioned that he does represent them in India.