Mobile Phone, GPS, and Bluetooth.

I have the Tom Tom 500 and the Telstra Next G ZTE and I find it better than getting booked at $238 NSW .

I pleaded over three decades of incident free driving and they told me due to the seriousness of the offence they could not give me any consideration for being a good driver.

It was just when the NSW pollies gave themslves a rise.

I do have some problems hearing it as the volume changes and I dont know why.

My wife tells me that my selective deafness is getting worse so maybe it only happens when she calls me so I might check that aspect out.

Ian

I had a similar problem with two extra issues. Had to be Nokia ( I have gone from Nokia several times and regretted it every time) and external antenna.

I ended up with a Nokia 6120 with a "force cradle" that has an inductive antenna connection for 850Mhz ( next G in the country).

It has a decent hands free but I use blue tooth. As you say a Navigator would be fine or a Blueant hands free speakerphone is pretty good. I am pretty sure it has auto answer too.

Wayne
I've been using a Nokia 6120 Next G phone in a Force cradle which charges the phone and inductively connects the antenna.
I had it when we met at Craigs hut the other week. It works really well and it always surprises me where I have reception even with the little windscreen antenna.
I know what you mean with the handsfree kits my Kyocera CDMA phone had the full deal, voice recognition, proper handsfree operation. It seems though that these days proper in car gear is nigh on impossible to get even from the big manufacturers.
I've got an ebay GPS which has bluetooth capabilities but I find the volume lacking, but functionally it works well, you can make and receive calls all by using the screen on the GPS, no need to touch the phone at all.
The best bluetooth handsfree I've found is the Blue Ant Supertooth units, very long battery life (typically a couple of months between recharges using it all day every day), works well in noisy environments (I drive a school bus nuf said), clear reception and connects and disconnects automatically when you flip the arm up and down when entering and leaving the vehicle.
I have the earlier unit but another driver has the latest version and it works just as well. It just mounts by built in magnets to a clip on the sunvisor or any metal surface.
Peter

If u buy a Nokia 6120,the force cradle and the RFI multi band aerial you should get what you want.

The 6120 has voice dialling. You can just say the name in your directory and it wil dial it.

I use this with a Motorola 710 bluetooth earpiece and it works well.
My bro in law has a blueant but the volume on it isnt great. Maybe its just that one.

The 710 has fast hookup and when phone rings you can just open it and talk. ( It folds to close)

Prices Cradle $75 RFI Aerial $109 at one Telstra shop $179 at another same thing exactly.
Motorola $139

I have a ZTE flip phone which has a wired in car kit with a hard connection to an external antenna.
You have to press a large button on the cradle to answer calls and it is a bit fiddly when you insert the phone as you have to connect a mini USB for power, but overall the performance is good.

I had a 7Db antenna but smashed it on an overhead obstruction, so now switched to a 4Db which is only 80mm tall , and uses the roof as a ground plane. I found I rarely remembered to swing the 7DB up as it was about a metre long.
Regards Philip A

Wayne,
i use a Logic Gear GPS model 488 for the above function
has blue tooth which allows auto answer.can also use larger touch pad on gps to dial as against small phone buttons.

I use it with a cheap samsung 411 next g phone that lays on centre console permantly plugged into cigarette lighter as when out of range battery wont last due to phone always searching for reception.
the samsung normally gets far superior reception than SHMBO 's top of the line Nokia.Quite often I have signal when she has nothing.

I also am able to run oziexplorer on the gps unit .run ozi and maps on separate sd card.
unit is available from kmart and office works for about $350 .
cheers
Howard

My LC100 has a bluetooth built into the Radio and my phone "connects" to it as soon as I start the car up. I have 5 numbers set up on the radio, so all I do is press a button on the radio which turns radio off and phone connection on...press another button for who I want to call and that's it...no getting booked.