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Car Forum / Driving, Maintenance, Tuning / Driving / June 2008Well, That Went Well
Since tomorrow is the BIG DAY (handheld cell phone use in your car becomes illegal), KTLA (and, I suspect, every other California media outlet) is running lots of stories about what you can do to avoid a $20 ticket. Today they got a guy from Al & Ed's Autosound to demonstrate the Parrot PMK 5800 Bluetooth hands-free kit: http://www.al-eds.com/product.php?productid=18621&gclid=CKvFuqKwnJQCFQ4UiQodJUaWzw The reporter was sitting in the car and dialed in to the KTLA studios LIVE so everyone could hear how it sounded. She was complely unintelligible. The Parrot came off looking like a complete piece of junk. This on the eve of their biggest sales opportunity in YEARS, as all the 11th hour shoppers rush out to buy their hands-free kits before tomorrow's deadline. The Parrot folks can't be very happy right now... :)  SignatureQ: What's the difference between a traffic snake and a real one? A: The traffic snake's a.shole at the *front* end. > Since tomorrow is the BIG DAY (handheld cell phone use in your car > becomes illegal), KTLA (and, I suspect, every other California media [quoted text clipped - 17 lines] > Q: What's the difference between a traffic snake and a real one? > A: The traffic snake's a.shole at the *front* end. I've been happy with my Motorola bluetoof ear bud, with two exceptions: 1) I have it set up for my personal cell phone. It seems that it would almost be easier to buy a second one for my work phone rather than to try to switch it back and forth. Unfortunately my employer supplied phone is an LG POS so I'd need to then have *three* charger cords in my vehicle, and I only have two sockets available (because the LG doesn't use a standard USP charging cable, so the Motorola Y- adapter wouldn't work.) 2) it doesn't sit perfectly securely on my ear, but that is likely because I still wear eyeglasses, as I don't like contacts and am scared s**tless of Lasic (SWMBO's brother had it done, and it royally f'ed up his eyes.) Most of the time I'm driving I'm wearing sunglasses anyway, unless it's nighttime, so this comment wouldn't go away. Sound quality is quite good, although I wish I could crank the volume up slightly more as all vehicles that i'm likely to be using it in are fairly loud at speed ('05 Impala, '88 944, or '93 F-150.) I believe that the aftermarket head unit in my F-150 can also be adapted for hands free phone use through the speakers, although I think the ear bud is much more practical. nate > > Since tomorrow is the BIG DAY (handheld cell phone use in your car > > becomes illegal), KTLA (and, I suspect, every other California media [quoted text clipped - 47 lines] > > - Show quoted text - I picked up two different mike/earpiece do-dads from the 99 cent store. I called my home phone answering machine and the voice quality was just as good as if I had been talking into the phone directly. If I want to make a call, I would wait until it was safe. If I want to receive one, all I have to do that's illegal is hit the key that answers the phone, whch can be in my shirt pocket. (Someone once said that Studebaker owners were cheap! Is that true?) >>>Since tomorrow is the BIG DAY (handheld cell phone use in your car >>>becomes illegal), KTLA (and, I suspect, every other California media [quoted text clipped - 56 lines] > If I want to receive one, all I have to do that's illegal is hit the > key that answers the phone, whch can be in my shirt pocket. I don't live in CA so I have not researched the new law at all, do you mean that hitting a key on the phone to answer is illegal? What about tapping the button on the headset? (which is what I have to do with my headset.) > (Someone once said that Studebaker owners were cheap! Is that true?) Utter and complete fabrication! nate (I'm *broke,* there's a subtle yet important difference.) Signaturereplace "roosters" with "cox" to reply. http://members.cox.net/njnagel > Since tomorrow is the BIG DAY (handheld cell phone use in your car > becomes illegal), KTLA (and, I suspect, every other California media [quoted text clipped - 17 lines] > Q: What's the difference between a traffic snake and a real one? > A: The traffic snake's a.shole at the *front* end. _______________ TWENTY DEAR?? Here in Connecticut you get whacked with over a hundred dollar fine if you're caught with a silvery looking object upside your ear. Of course, we're all rich here in CT - we can afford it!! ROTFLMAO... -CC |
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