iSimple Hands-Free Calling and Music Streaming Kit with Control Button for Smartphones - Frustration-Free Packaging - Black

I am wavering between giving this 4 or 5 stars. I really do like it a lot! I installed it myself and it was not too difficult, although I have to admit I was more than a little nervous about taking my car apart. I bought antenna adapters but it turns out that they weren't needed as the stock AM/FM/CD radio in my 2006 Xterra has a standard antenna jack. Getting power and routing the microphone wire were intimidating, but ended up being easy after some research on line. The Tranzit BLU HF supports both phone audio and media audio bluetooth services. The audio is very clear as it disconnects the car antenna and sends the FM signal directly to the radio's antenna port. No interference from FM stations whatsoever. I can also listen to FM radio, and when a call comes in the radio goes silent and I can answer the call. The other option is to set it for media audio which allows me to listen to streaming audio from my phone. In this mode I can hear navigation directions and voice search prompts over the car radio which is great. The only complaint I have with the Tranzit BLU HF is that when it is set to allow me to listen to FM radio the media audio bluetooth service is still connected to my phone. As a result, when listening to FM I don't hear voice search prompts or nav directions. I would prefer that the media audio service would turn off in radio mode so I the phone would know to use its built in speaker for nav directions and voice search prompts. To get around this I sometimes listen to the live stream feed of my local radio station instead of listening via the FM tuner. That uses data, and I have to start and stop the audio streaming app when I get in and out of the car. But I really got this for long drives when I'm not listening to radio anyway. Overall I'm very happy with this device and am very glad that I bought it rather than a new radio.

After 3 months in the car, I am still as happy as I was day 1. This actually works, and works well. I installed it in my wife's Subaru Forester. I'd tried a number of bluetooth kits before, and it's the first system she is actually willing to use. Install is not trivial. Lots of cables to connect and run, a button and microphone to expose in an esthetically pleasing manner. I ran the microphone wire hidden behind the knee panel and up the A pillar up to the driver sun visor, no cable exposed. Took about an hour. The button is just to the left of the radio with only a couple millimeters cable visible, does not look too out of place there. What may have taken the most time was to splice the radio harness to obtain power (key switched) and ground. That required some work, I ended up purchasing a pre-spliced harness from a gentleman on one of the Subaru owners group. I encountered one issue. I first mounted the device through the radio antenna, which provides better capabilities (in particular caller ID info) but there was a bit of interference noise that I did not like. I ended up having to open the console again and rewire using the AUX port. Much better audio, but the integration is not quite as rich. Altogether, doing it yourself is possible but requires some skills and experience. I'd say I spent a total of 6 hours on it, many more than I would require if I did it again, I am pretty sure I'd get it done in a little over an hour at this point. Ease of pairing is really good, stability of the bluetooth is very good, ease of use is good, audio quality is very good. Lack of meta data on call due to AUX port is a bit frustrating but acceptable. In spite of the issue with using the radio antenna, I would recommend this solution to anyone, but may suggest you get it professionally installed.

I would give this 5 stars based on how well it works and easy to install. Basically it's good enough I am going to buy a second one for another car. Call quality incoming and outgoing is very good. Streaming music is also very good although the volume requires turning your Bluetooth device pretty much all the way and then it's still only about 3/4 as loud as an FM station. But loud enough for us to use as is. The disconnect for the FM antenna so unwanted radio signals don't conflict with your BT input works flawlessly. However, loses a star for the following reasons: Install directions with user manual are at odds with the directions written on the back of the unit (friendly tech support told me to follow the directions in the user manual) There's supposed to be an app you can download onto your smart phone to access the device settings, such as changing to another FM station. The app is supposed to be available for iPhone, Android and Windows phone. I downloaded for my Windows Phone 8 and it comes down as a zip file. Well, you can't unzip files on a Windows Phone, it's not possible. So I downloaded on my wife's iPhone and was able to open the app but it only has functionality to adjust settings for a steering wheel switch kit, no way to make it work for the ISFM2351, it's not on the menu. So I tried downloading it on my PC, tried to unzip it and my Norton stopped it because of a virus. Didn't try an Android device. Was hoping with the app that maybe there was a setting to increase the volume (gain). So, it works well enough as is with no adjustments but maybe it could be better with some tweaking. I don't know of any other devices (I looked really hard) that do everything this one does in a single unit.

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This thing is brilliant! Admittedly, I had a little issue with a broken wire, but I contacted the seller and they couldn't have been more helpful in supplying a replacement. It was easy to install, having watched a load of YouTube videos beforehand. The issue I thought I'd have was powering it and nowhere could I find any information about how to find "switched power". I popped to my local Halfords and asked if I could piggy-back off my radio's fuse, as I only want the iSimple device on when my radio is on. Indeed, you can! You can buy a piggy-back fuse that allows you not only to piggy-back off the power supply to my radio, in this case, but also allows another fuse to be used with the new power supply, the iSimple device, in this case. So, I have the original 20 amp fuse for the radio present and a 5 amp fuse for the iSimple connection. Then I drilled a hole in the middle of one of the dashboard's dummy switches using a stepper bit (10mm is the diameter of the phone button, just as an fyi, as I couldn't find that information anywhere), which snugly held the phone button without the use of glue or any other adhesive. Then fed the phone button wire through a small hole I drilled under the 10mm hole and fed the wire behind the radio and connected it to the iSimple device mounted behind the dashboard. To give a clean looking finish, I bought a packet of 2mm thick strong, black elastic bands 10mm in diameter to give the button a border and hide the hole drilling finish, which looked a little ugly. The elastic band was very tough to get round the button, but after several attempts and very painful fingers later, it finally popped on firmly! Phew! Pairing the device to the phone was very straight forward, following the instructions and, before I realised it was all done, it was all done! Now I just switch on the bluetooth on the phone when the car is switched on and it connects. A few helpful hints: Firstly, sometimes, when my wifi is searching, connecting can be interrupted, so turn wifi off. Secondly, if more than more bluetooth device is paired to your phone, even if one of them is not in range, I found this device won't automatically connect. However, pressing and holding the telephone button for 6 seconds helps to give it that extra nudge to connect. The app that you can download to change the frequency of the iSimple device is good, but if you're in an area that already uses the 98.1 radio frequency, I'm afraid there is a strong probability that you're going to have to drive somewhere where that radio station isn't received to change the frequency to a new station, because the app may well say it can't connect, due to the strength of the radio station over your phone's signal. I changed mine to 107.9, which is the maximum frequency it has. Sometimes there's little interference every now and then, but nothing dramatic and the sound quality is very good! I hope this helps!

Excellent - many thanks

la calidad del audio para llamadas es buena, pero para reproducir música no es tan buena, se escucha con menor potencia.