About Smoothtalker cell phone car kits:

Full install hands free car kits for bluetooth and non-blue tooth cell phones and PDA: Smoothtalker brand cellular hands free car kits are made for two applications: bluetooth   and non-bluetooth. We manufacture traditional style hands free car kits that require professional installation into a vehicle, car, boat RV or truck. This type of cell phone carkit is normally used for cell phones and PDA's that either have no bluetooth capability or the person acquiring the cellular car kit wants a traditional full install hands free carphone speaker kit even though his or her phone may be bluetooth hands free capable.

Some cell phones have bluetooth capability and traditional output connections for hands free functions. We offer hands free kits in both styles, hard wire and bluetooth, for some cell phones and PDAs. Example: Blackberry 7250, Blackberry 7290, Blackberry 7100r, Motorola V3 Razr, Motorola V710, Motorola E815.

All of the Smoothtalker cellular hands free speakerphone carkits have privacy handsets, cell phone holders or cradles that are specifically designed to hold the model of cell phone or PDA with which they will be used and all of the Smooth Talker full install hands free car kits must be used with an external cell phone antenna. These kits can be ordered to include 3-watt boosters and amplifiers or repeaters. All of the Smoothtalker full install hands free kits, wether the hard wire or bluetooth type, are designed and optimized to work with the specific cell phone or PDA for which they are ordered. This means that if the cell phone car kit is ordered for the Blackberry 7290, it will work best for this device and if the phone holder is changed for use with another phone or PDA in the future, the hands free kit may operate with the new device but it will not necessarily sound as good as it does when used with the phone or device for which it was designed.

Self install Bluetooth hands free kits: Smoothtalker brand Bluetooth hands free in-car kits can be purchased in a configuration that does not require proffesional installation. These kits differ from the full installation hands free kits by using cell phone holders and cradles that get their power to charge the cell phone or PDA from the cigarette lighter power outlet of the vehicle and do not use an external cell phone antenna. This type of cell phone car kit is designed for the urban cellular phone user that wants hands free capability while simultaneously charging his or her phone battery but does not require the power of external cellular phone antenna or 3-watt booster.

Note: the cell phone holders and bluetooth hands free control junction boxes for the Smoothtalker self install hands free kits are designed for specific models of bluetooth cellular telephones and PDA's and all Smoothtalker hands free bluetooth car kits are optimized for use with the specific bluetooth capable cell phone or PDA for which they are purchased. The nature of bluetooth capable hands free devices is to work with any and all bluetooth capable mobile phones and PDA, however speaker volumes, hands free microphone sensitivity, echo and voice quality will differ when used with different blue tooth mobiles.

Self install car kits with privacy handset: Smoothtalker car kits with privacy handset only do not have any hands free functions. These car kits consist of a cellular phone/PDA holder that is connected to a privacy handset. The holder is plugged into the DC power outlet of the car, RV, boat or truck and the handset is plugged into the phone holder. When a call is initated or comes in the user picks up the handset an converses through the handset. The cell phone or PDA remains in the cell phone holder, continues charging during the call. Car kits with privacy handsets only are also available with connectors that can be used with an external cell phone antanna and 3 watt booster amplifier or repeater.

Self install cell phone and PDA holders for use with any brand of bluetooth hands free in-car kits: Smoothtalker cellular phone and PDA holders and cradles can be used with any make of bluetooth headsets and bluetooth hands free car phone kits. Smooth Talker hands free holders and hands free cradles are available in several configurations. Some car kit holders are designed to be installed and wired to the vehicle's fuse panel, some cell phone car kit holders plug directly into the CLA of the vehicle, some car phone holders have external cell phone antenna connectors and can be used with an external cell phone antenna. All of these holders are designed foor use with a specific cellular telephone or PDA and the install type include rotational mounting hardware for mounting to hands free holder mounting brackets. Smoothtalker cell phone holders with external antenna connectors can be used to add an external cell phone antenna or 3-watt booster amplifier or repeater and will turn the cell phone or PDA into a 3 watt cellular powerhouse that will increase signal and extend cellular range substantially.

About Smoothtalker Bluetooth cell phone car kits:

Overview: what is bluetooth?
Bluetooth is the name given to a wireless standard that was developed by Ericsson. The name Bluetooth was taken after a mythical Viking God and it seems that the developers at Ericsson, which is a Swedish company, thought it would be a good name when they were developing the standard.

Bluetooth communications operate wirelessly on the 2.4 Gigahertz frequency band. This band was established as a "free use" frequency spectrum by the various world governing bodies that allocate "free use"and "pay for use" frequency spectrum. This means that a company that develops and produces devices that operate in this band does not have to purchase a license to use this frequency spectrum. Many devices that operate in the 2.4 Ghz band have been available in the market, including home wireless telephones, laptops and computers that have wireless capability and "centrino" chips built in.

Bluetooth is simply a standardized way of using this frequency. It allows a manufacturer of one type of device, a cell phone for example, to communicate wirelessly with another type of device made by another manufacturer like a headset, laptop computer or car stereo. In other words if one has a bluetooth capable phone from Motorola and they purchase a car from BMW that has a bluetooth capable car stereo, then the phone and stereo will link wirelessly and conversations can occur hands free through the car stereo when the user is in the vehicle. The same holds true if you have a bluetooth computer through which one can establish a cellular band data connection with their cell phone etc. There many present and future applications for which bluetooth is beneficial.

Bluetooth as it relates to cellular communications and hands free functions: Bluetooth capable cell phones and data devices like Treo and Blackberry devices can use bluetooth capability to communicate hands free either by using a bluetooth headset or bluetooth hands free car kit. The bluetooth headset will allow the user to hold a cell phone conversation without having to touch the phone or connect the headset to the phone using a wire.

Hands free communications are virtually automatic in vehicles that have bluetooth stereo systems. A person can simply link his or her phone to the stereo and cellular voice communications will take place through the car stereo speakers and built in microphone in the vehicle. One does not need to purchase a hands free kit and have it installed into the vehicle to have hands free capability. For vehicles that do not have bluetooth capable stereo systems, a bluetooth hands free kit can be used in place of a traditional hard-wired hands free kit in a vehicle. Bluetooth in car hands free kits come in two forms; simple "plug and play" kits that incorporate the bluetooth circuitry, speaker and microphone in a single body that is usually plugged into the cigarette lighter and "install type" hands free kits that have separate junction circuit box, speaker and microphone. The difference between these two types of kit is that the "install type" hands free car kit usually has better voice and microphone quality than the "plug and play type".


Bluetooth as it relates to cellular data communications: Bluetooth capable cell phones and data devices like Treo and Blackberry devices can use bluetooth capability to communicate with laptop and other computers and use them to transfer data, like phone books and contact lists, wirelessly back and forth from the phone to the computer or use the phone to establish a data link with the cellular network and use the computer for functions email or web-browsing. In other words, no data cable between the phone and computer is not required and no software to enable the phone and the computer to communicate is required. Bluetooth enables a fast and simple connection between any bluetooth enabled cellular phone or device and any bluetooth enabled computer.


Advantages and disadvantages of bluetooth with cellular phones and devices:

Bluetooth and Data:
Advantages: Using bluetooth link between a cell phone and computer for data connections on a cellular network is far more convenient than traditional cable methods and there is no disadvantage. When to bluetooth and wireless data, it is the ideal way to link computers and cell phones or PDA devices.
The same is cannot be said for hands free communications using bluetooth car kits and headsets.

Disadvantages: None

Bluetooth and Hands free:
Advantages: Bluetooth enabled car stereos and vehicles have the obvious advantage that no kit must be purchased or installed for the user to have hands free capability.

Bluetooth hands free kits that are purchased and installed into a vehicle will work with all bluetooth enabled phones and when one changes phones or uses two different model bluetooth phones a new hands free kit does not have to be purchased and installed.

Disadvantages:
Bluetooth enabled vehicles and bluetooth hands free kits do not come with a cell phone holder for a specific cell phone or PDA and this poses several disadvantages:

a-the user does not have a convenient place to dock the phone and view the phone display.

b-the phone battery will not charge unless the phone is plugged into a cigarette lighter power supply

c-the phone battery will be used faster because the phone uses battery power to establish a bluetooth link, stay linked and uses extra energy during a call because it must use power for the bluetooth connection with the carkit and the cellular call.

d-the cell phone is not connected to an external antenna or booster and signal is not as good when compared to a traditional kit with holder.

e-if a user leaves the bluetooth link between the phone and car kit connected and is close to the vehicle but is not in the vehicle and a call comes in, the phone will only ring in the car kit and even if the ring is heard and the call is engaged by the user, the conversation will be heard through the phone, it will be audible in the car only. For example, a person comes home, puts their car in the garage, takes the phone out and sets it on the kitchen counter and a call comes in, the user cannot use their phone unless they go back out the vehicle very quickly. If the phone is far away from the vehicle then the bluetooth link is inactive, however some phones and kits can stay linked over relatively large distances as far as 30 to 100 feet. The distance that a bluetooth link will cover varies between cell phones, brands of bluetooth car kits and location of the bluetooth phone and car kit. The only way to be sure that a phone bluetooth link is not active (when in close proximity) is to de-link the phone from the bluetooth kit. Linking and de-linking a phone from a kit is an obvious disadvantage over a traditional kit.

f-Bluetooth hands free kits are more expensive than traditional hands free carkits.



How to overcome bluetooth deficiencies with Smoothtalker bluetooth hands free kits:
Bluetooth hands free kits have several disadvantages when compared to traditional install kits and Smoothtalker brand bluetooth address the issues and solve the problems.

1. smoothtalker bluetooth hands free kit junction boxes have been optimized and designed to match the phone or PDA for which they are sold. That is to say that a Smooth Talker bluetooth hands free kit is made for the Motorola V3 Razr will perform with outstanding speaker voice quality at high volume and the hands free microphone will have noise reduction to match the phone and reduce road noise and there will not be any echo to the user or caller, a common problem that plagues many other bluetooth hands free kits. A smoothtalker bluetooth hands free kit will work any bluetooth cell phone or PDA like all bluetooth hands free kits but it is guaranteed to perform correctly only with the phone or PDA for which it is designed.
   
2. Smoothtalker bluetooth hands free kits are offered with various matched cell phone and PDA holders that offer docking, charging, and external cell antenna connection.
   
3. Smoothtalker hands free kits offer privacy handsets. This is a feature that is unique to Smoothtalker bluetooth hands free in car kits.
   
4. Smoothtalker bluetooth hands free kits are not advertised or sold as "one kit fits all" devices. All of our bluetooth car kits are specific to the cell phone or PDA for which they are purchased and guaranteed to work properly for that device.