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Can you buy a bluetooth transmitter for an ipod which will play through a bluetooth car kit?

Aug 17, 2008 by Bob B | Posted in Music & Music Players

Can I buy a Bluetooth transmitter for an iPod that will play through a Bluetooth car kit? When I walk in my car, my phone automatically connects to the car and hear the conversation through the speakers ...

Can you get an adapter for the headphone jack of an iPod that sends its signal via the Bluetooth in-car radio?

Here are several Bluetooth transmitter for iPod
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Several of them look exactly what you want!

Bill G | Aug 19, 2008

I need a Bluetooth car hands-free spreakerphone for cell phone. Any ideas?

Oct 03, 2006 by wvukid21 | Posted in Cell Phones & Plans

I dont' want a headset, I jsut want to get in the car, activate bluetooth on my phone, and talk handsfree via a system in my car... What's available out there?

ebay?

GLC

Good luck chief | Oct 04, 2006

Bluetooth Car Kit with Caller ID & Name Display Screen

Available @ www.canadadrivesafe.com - This is one of our top of the line bluetooth car kits. Have you ever been on a carkit or headset, and the ...

10 Ways to Boost Your Smartphone's Battery Life

06.06.11

Most smartphone batteries today are rated at around 5 watt-hours, meaning that they can deliver a constant charge of 1 watt to the device over a period of 5 hours. If your phone actually uses 1 watt per hour, and you pull it off the charger at 7:00 a.m., you can expect it to be dead by lunchtime. So the key to increasing your phone's battery life is to reduce the amount of power the handset uses per hour.

One obvious way to reduce your phone's energy draw is to use it less (yeah, right). A more practical approach is to manage the phone's power consumption by turning off unneeded features and turning down adjustable features. Turning off your phone's radios when you're not using them, reducing the screen's brightness, and killing apps that run in the background are among the tricks that can help your phone's battery last longer. They and other tricks and apps will help extend your phone's overall workday by reducing its moment-to-moment energy requirements.

1. Dim the Screen

Source: PCWorld

In-depth look at the TomTom GPS Cradle for the iPhone – how it ...

by Dave Burrows

I have taken a very close look at the TomTom iPhone GPS Cradle in the flesh, tried it in-car and thought there were a number of positives but also equally many more negatives to point out which is not apparent in the marketing material for the cradle. In this article I do not test the cradle with third party apps in any way and only detail my experiences with the cradle and how it connects to your iPhone and the positives vs negatives with my use of the cradle.

Positives

Nice sleek, slimline mount Built-in GPS Receiver to improve GPS accuracy of the iPhone’s lack luster GPS (not verified yet) Built-in loud Speaker (which is loud) with variable volume control via a rocker switch

The above sounds a really good feature set until you start looking at it in more detail and start using the TomTom iPhone GPS Cradle and here’s where you find problems…

Negatives

If you want to use the TomTom iPhone GPS Cradle you  to pair it with the internal bluetooth in the cradle (pin 5555) If you remove the iPhone from the cradle then there is no way you can use the speaker so TomTom are using the pin-out on the connector to couple it with the Bluetooth within the speaker/cradle.  So if you decide to take the iPhone out of the cradle the speaker in the cradle stops working. If you place the iPhone in the TomTom GPS Cradle and do not pair the Bluetooth then there is no way of getting the speaker to work on the cradle.  This I believe re-affirms to me that TomTom are using the speaker over Bluetooth on the cradle Bearing in mind the above, it appears that the GPS is working through the bottom connector and not via Bluetooth (although not confirmed yet) although TomTom may have over-engineered this to tie the two together If you already have a sufficient in-car Bluetooth system for car audio/speaker phone when you connect the...

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