In concept Bluetooth is a global protocol that works with any two bluetooth enabled devices. There are exceptions to this as each vendors implementation is a bit different. My cell phone, for example, is a Verizon V710 which is likely one of the most jacked up implementations I've seen. Is the phone bad? Not at all but Verizon chose to eliminate most of the bluetooth functionality when they had Moto manufacture it.

 

I too have a Verizon V710, and most of the features were disabled. I must say, they are now enabled and life is good. A place to start finding help is here:
http://tinyurl.com/bosqy

(And yes, I am a fan of TinyURL.Com)

 

I have a Parriot 3100 ya its nice but it is hard to find a phone completly compatable with it and if you have Sprint (like me) forget it. There LG PM-325 kind of works but not well Parriot said that the trio was the only thing that Sprint uses that is completly compatable Hopr this helps

 

I also bought and installed the Ford Mobile-Ease kit. It works great with my Motorola RAZR. My only change was to mount the controller on the left side of the center console (near the driver). I thought the right side was too far for me to operate comfortably as I drive.

 

Maybe I'm missing something, but you can get the little ear piece thing for like 70 bucks. You just tell it to call so and so, and it does it. Plus you can take it with you anywhere. Whats the $330+ bennifit to having the car kit?

Not trying to troll just actually curious whats the point to buying a car kit, even the non Ford specific ones are really expensive.

 

The Ford and my Motorola in-car kits both MUTE the Shaker and use the cars speakers to hear the call. In some states, it is illegal to have earphones or those earbud things in your ears while driving.

 

Personally, I don't like the thought of having to wear a bluetooth earphone, even a wireless one. I push one button and I can answer a call or start one of my own. The system works way better than I expected, especially when driving my manual in a "spirited" manner. Additionally, for those of us in the Navy, the only way you are allowed to speak on a cellphone while driving is a hands-free kit. Earphones are not allowed.

 

Think you'd better check your terminology. A "hands free kit" is a single earphone. The speaker kit, is well, a speakerphone kit.

 

Better tell that to Ford, Motorola, and all the other manufactures that their Bluetooth Hands-Free Kits are Speakerphone Kits. Technically speaking, any kit that allows you to have a conversation without holding the phone is a hands-free device. In my case, the Motorola Bluetooth Hands-Free kit really is that... You can program it to answer an incoming call just by saying a key word like ANSWER. My .02

 

Are the installation instructions available anywhere?? I would like to investigate the install prior to the purchace. I also want to make sure that it won't interfere with the PIE aux adapter that I use for XM, that and having a vert may make the install a bit harder.

thx

Jim

 

I asked the same thing about the PIE adapter on the PIE website forum. Their response was that the adapter would not interfere with the hands-free adapter cable you have to use to install the bluetooth kit.
What exactly would make the install more difficult on a vert? :scratch:

 

I have a copy of the pattor 3100 install instruction. I can scan them and send anyone who wants them a copy.

 

Ok sorry parrot not parror

 

Putting the microphone up near the maplight. Not much headliner on the vert.

 

I had no problem at all. Just pop your side windshield a-pillar molding off, run your mic wire up and clip the mic where you want it. Stuff the wire up under the plastic headliner and tape it down along the a-pillar to your kit, then pop the moulding back on. All done.

Of course, I removed all the trim pieces cuz I also installed my XM Sat control unit on the console. Note the mic right above the mirror in the pic.

 

Here is the acrobat PDF file for the Ford Mobile-Ease kit:

Mobile Ease installation instructions

 

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Seriously, though....as 2k5GTC has alluded, Ford themselves markets the Mobile-Ease as a "hands-free" kit. Regardless of our semantic quibbling, the Navy considers any earphones whether wired or wireless as unsafe and not to be used while driving a vehicle on a military installation.

As for the install, it took me a day to do it right, but it wasn't hard at all.

 

Fair enough. I should have said that a single earpiece qualifies as a hands-free device, so when you said earphones are not allowed but hands-free devices are, seemed wrong as an earphone is a hands-free device.
As was said, all speakerphone kits are hands-free kits. Not all hands-free devices are speakerphones.

 

Thanks, it sounds like it should to be too hard.

Jim

 

thanks, this will give me the info to decide if I want to go this route.

Jim