Do you have a recommended visor mount speakerphone?
Or maybe (if it's loud enough) an earphone for driving?

I'm thinking it needs to be loud and clip easily
and charge easily over USB-C and maybe have two
bluetooth channels (phone calls & map routing).

Any suggestions?

In comp.mobile.android, on Mon, 4 Sep 2023 02:51:24 +0200, Mickey D
<mickeydavis078XX@ptd.net> wrote:

>Do you have a recommended visor mount speakerphone?
>Or maybe (if it's loud enough) an earphone for driving?

More money than you probably want to pay.....
>
>I'm thinking it needs to be loud and clip easily
>and charge easily over USB-C and maybe have two
>bluetooth channels (phone calls & map routing).

well maybe not if you want bluetooth. I was convused by visor mount and
speakerphone. Do you already have a map in your radio? Why do you
say two bluetooth channels. It's not like you can have a phone
conversation while the map is barking directions. I haven't tried to
use the phone for verbal directions, in fact I turned off the sound of
the phone's directions becuase it kept saying things and that interfered
with the radio (let alone a phone conversation), and I just look at the
phone's screen for directions. (My car radio will also give directions
but in 6 years I've never used it. Usually I just want the map.)
>
>Any suggestions?

But they only have it for some cars. You don't say what make, model,
year, trim level your car is? You might not even know, because the
radio doesn't indicate it until one is plugged in but will your car
accept an add-on CD-changer?

https://www.gtacarkits.com/ I have it and it works great. for phone
calls and playing webradio through the car speakers.

Bluetooth and iPhone/iPod/AUX Kits for Toyota Solara 2004-2008
GTA Car Kit for Toyota Solara 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007 and 2008 is all you
need to integrate your smartphone, tablet or mp3 player with your stock
car stereo system.

We offer iPod/iPhone/iPad/AUX Wired kit with Bluetooth Extension port
and Pure Bluetooth with AUX. Please refer to the table below to find
detailed comparison between these two products.

Stereo Type
pa_product-type
What is the difference?

FROM $84.99 USD for iphone maybe, but even for ipod and certainly for
Android you need to spend sStarts at [and probably ends at] $139.99 USD.
That price was the final price for me. IIRC there are a few cheap
accessories that I had no use for.

On Mon, 04 Sep 2023 13:38:36 -0400, micky wrote:
> well maybe not if you want bluetooth.

Aren't all the visor-mount speakerphones bluetooth?

> I was confused by visor mount and speakerphone. \

It's a common apparatus where I'm just asking people for their experience.

I think you're conflating a newer car with a full digital instrument
cluster with navigation built in to an older car that doesn't have that.

> Do you already have a map in your radio?

What you're calling a "radio" isn't a radio - it's a full digital dashboard
system that often includes radios and navigation among many other things.

I don't have that.

I have a radio but I never use it and it's the button type that had been in
vehicles for a hundred years so there's no concept of a "map" on the radio.

> Why do you say two bluetooth channels.

Because the phone has two (or more?) bluetooth channels, that's why.

Haven't you been on the phone while Google Maps is speaking directions?

You can hear both at the same time, only the routing is hushed a lot.

> It's not like you can have a phone
> conversation while the map is barking directions.

Yes you can. One bluetooth channel has priority over the other channel.
Usually the phone, for example, has priority over the routing.

You hear both at the same time but one channel is greatly muted.

> use the phone for verbal directions, in fact I turned off the sound of
> the phone's directions becuase it kept saying things and that interfered
> with the radio (let alone a phone conversation), and I just look at the
> phone's screen for directions. (My car radio will also give directions
> but in 6 years I've never used it. Usually I just want the map.)

What I think you're calling a "car radio" is a digital navigation system.
My radio is the old style with a knob to turn it on and twist for stations.

As for how people wish to route while driving, you prefer the visual, but
that's likely because it's coming from your digital navigation system.

I prefer the audio alone (my phone is usually blanked out while driving).

>>Any suggestions?
>
> But they only have it for some cars. You don't say what make, model,
> year, trim level your car is?

If you ask that question, it means you don't understand my question.

The speakerphone I'm seeking works on every car on the planet.
It will work on a bicycle. It will work on a boat. On the beach.
It will even work if you tape it to your arm while you hike.

It's just a bluetooth connection between the phone and the speakerphone.

> You might not even know, because the
> radio doesn't indicate it until one is plugged in but will your car
> accept an add-on CD-changer?

Let's stop here because what you're calling a "radio" is not a radio.
What you call a "radio is really a complete digital navigation system.

A radio has buttons and has been in cars since cars were invented.

What I want will work anywhere because it only needs the phone to be in
close proximity to the speakerphone - maybe about 30 feet or so.

The Android bluetooth talks to the speakerphone bluetooth.
The speakerphone has a better amplifier than does the Android phone.

I can google for them but I was hoping to get someone's experience here.

In comp.mobile.android, on Mon, 4 Sep 2023 15:37:23 -0400, Mickey D
<mickeydavis078XX@ptd.net> wrote:

>On Mon, 04 Sep 2023 13:38:36 -0400, micky wrote:
>
>> well maybe not if you want bluetooth.
>
>Aren't all the visor-mount speakerphones bluetooth?
>
>> I was confused by visor mount and speakerphone. \
>
>It's a common apparatus where I'm just asking people for their experience.
>
>I think you're conflating a newer car with a full digital instrument
>cluster with navigation built in to an older car that doesn't have that.
>
>> Do you already have a map in your radio?
>
>What you're calling a "radio" isn't a radio - it's a full digital dashboard
>system that often includes radios and navigation among many other things.
>
>I don't have that.

You too are assuming things. I have a radio with a built-in map and
GPS and it will also give directions, but nothing else on the dashboard
is digital.
>
>I have a radio but I never use it and it's the button type that had been in
>vehicles for a hundred years so there's no concept of a "map" on the radio.
>
>> Why do you say two bluetooth channels.
>
>Because the phone has two (or more?) bluetooth channels, that's why.
>
>Haven't you been on the phone while Google Maps is speaking directions?

I have used google maps on the phone. It would speak directions but I
turned off its sound. I haven't been on the phone at the same time, but
if I were on the phone, I wouldn't be using bluetooth unless I was in
the car and it was connected to my radio.

I am surprised to hear the spoken directions use a different channel of
bluetooth. I suppose I could test it by turning the spoken directions
back on and driving along with them while making a phone call. If two
channels were necessary, I think GTA Carkit must have that because
everything works so well and if it didnt' someone would have complained
in their reviews (which of course are reviewed by GTA Carkit before
showing them.

>You can hear both at the same time, only the routing is hushed a lot.

And that's not done by the phone before it gets to a single channel?

>> It's not like you can have a phone
>> conversation while the map is barking directions.
>
>Yes you can. One bluetooth channel has priority over the other channel.
>Usually the phone, for example, has priority over the routing.

Aha!

>You hear both at the same time but one channel is greatly muted.>

>> use the phone for verbal directions, in fact I turned off the sound of
>> the phone's directions becuase it kept saying things and that interfered
>> with the radio (let alone a phone conversation), and I just look at the
>> phone's screen for directions. (My car radio will also give directions
>> but in 6 years I've never used it. Usually I just want the map.)
>
>What I think you're calling a "car radio" is a digital navigation system.

It's both.

>My radio is the old style with a knob to turn it on and twist for stations.
>
>As for how people wish to route while driving, you prefer the visual, but
>that's likely because it's coming from your digital navigation system.

No, I never use the radio. Only the phone.
>
>I prefer the audio alone (my phone is usually blanked out while driving).
>
>>>Any suggestions?
>>
>> But they only have it for some cars. You don't say what make, model,
>> year, trim level your car is?
>
>If you ask that question, it means you don't understand my question.

No. It might mean you didn't give enough details. How am I supposed to
tell. Maybe you asked the wrong question becauwe you didn't know about
what I described. My car is a 2005 and they made these things for 2002
or earlier.
>
>The speakerphone I'm seeking works on every car on the planet.
>It will work on a bicycle. It will work on a boat. On the beach.
>It will even work if you tape it to your arm while you hike.
>
>It's just a bluetooth connection between the phone and the speakerphone.
>
>> You might not even know, because the
>> radio doesn't indicate it until one is plugged in but will your car
>> accept an add-on CD-changer?
>
>Let's stop here because what you're calling a "radio" is not a radio.

Of course it's a radio. It's a radio with a map and GPS, and
navigation.

>What you call a "radio is really a complete digital navigation system.

It's really both.
>
>A radio has buttons and has been in cars since cars were invented.
>
>What I want will work anywhere because it only needs the phone to be in
>close proximity to the speakerphone - maybe about 30 feet or so.
>
>The Android bluetooth talks to the speakerphone bluetooth.
>The speakerphone has a better amplifier than does the Android phone.
>
>I can google for them but I was hoping to get someone's experience here.

Maybe someone else will post. I went to the trouble to tell you what I
thought would help you.