Parrot MK6100 Bluetooth Car Kit with Steering Wheel Control (Black)

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Product Features

• High quality sound Digital Signal Processing is a speciality of Parrot. The Parrot MK6100 integrates new and particularly effective software of noise reduction, Parrot Beamforming Technology
• Advanced features The Parrot MK6100 automatically synchronizes the names and phone numbers in your mobile with its phone book. When you receive a call, the name and the number are displayed on the screen
• Play your music on the kit The Parrot MK6100 is a music playing hands-free car kit: play your favourite MP3 files on the car¿s speakers from any Bluetooth Stereo (A2DP) source: mobile phone, MP3 player
• Always accessible Positioned on the steering wheel or placed wherever is convenient, the RF remote control is simple and intuitive, its interface lets to you browse within your address book or start playing the music of your choice.
• Keep your eyes on the road and access the list of your contacts in the kit¿s phone book and let the MK6100 read them for you thanks to the function Text to Speech; Press one button to validate your choice

Product Details

User Manual [8.20mb PDF]

• Product Dimensions: 9 x 3.3 x 6.3 inches ; 2.2 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 1.7 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
• Note: Gift-wrapping is not available for this item.
• ASIN: B000S0THPQ
• Item model number: MK6100
• Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #10,612 in Cell Phones & Service (See Bestsellers in Cell Phones & Service)

Product Description

Product Description
Bluetooth Hands-Free Car Kit with super thin display and 2 integrated microphones is a useful traveling friend. With its sober and elegant design, its high definition OLED screen, the Bluetooth hands-free car kit Parrot MK6100 enables you to establish in a few seconds any phone conversations in your vehicle without needing to handle the telephone, even leaving it in your pocket. Once paired, connection with your mobile is made in a completely transparent way. An incoming call? Press the green button to take the call while the kit mutes the sound of the car radio automatically during the conversation.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great solution, September 19, 2007

By	R. Coulson (Portland, OR USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I got this kit so I could play music wirelessly from my phone in the car. It is great and better than I expected. I can start the music, change tracks, pause, play, and stop music all without even touching my phone. I have been using a Sony Ericsson w580i and it works flawlessly with it. It even synchronizes contacts to the mk6100 everytime it connects so that you can navigate through contacts with the mk6100.

I also ended up buying an Insignia Pilot bluetooth mp3 player. I could fit my whole music collection plus videos on the player and play them through the mk6100 at the same time it is connected to the phone. When a call comes in, the music on the player pauses and the call comes through, when I hang up, the music automatically resumes.

Everything about the mk6100 I like except that when playing music, the screen on my car's stereo turns off. This normally wouldn't be a problem except that my car displays the time on that screen so I can't see what time it is when I am playing music with bluetooth. I am not sure if this will be a problem on most cars or not, but it is in my Accord.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars unreliable, November 2, 2008

By	Doug (Texas) - See all my reviews

I recommend that you not waste your money and look for another brand. The remote unit works unreliably, even with a new battery. The microphone in the display is pretty much useless. They must know that they have a problem because it comes with a separate mic but even when that mic is located within 6 inches of your mouth and you talk extra loud, people complain that you can't be heard. There is no volume adjustment for the mic. Also expect to spend another $40 to $60 on a wiring harness so that it will work with your radio.

If you have an iPhone, you will have to have the firmware downgraded so that it will work with the phone. If the remote happens to be working and you touch the green button, it will dial the last number that you dialed on your phone and you cannot make it hangup. You must stop the call with the phone.

I wasted my money and I will have to remove it from the car. Their tech support has been no help.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Parrot MK6100 Bluetooth Car Kit , September 30, 2008

By	S. Carr (Boulder, CO) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

In early September 2008, I had the Parrot MK6100 Bluetooth Car Kit installed by the Best Buy installers for $79 on my BMW 740 iL. Either the installers or the Kit had limitations in that the system could only be hooked up to the front speakers instead of all 6 speakers, leaving my MP3 player music using the Parrot less than optimum sound (in fact, sounding "tinny" in just the two speakers). This may be a limitation of the installers, although I checked with another installation company and also with the local BMW dealer and they both confirmed that it would cost between $400-$600 to make the requisite changes to the BMW system to allow the Parrot to use all of the speakers in my car, because of the limitations of the Parrot MK6100. I don't know whether this is true or if they just saw an opportunity to charge more. In any event, I didn't think it was worth it for just the improved sounds for the MP3 player; and, in addition, my son has a connection appliance for his iPod that he has installed in the cassette player drawer in his Audi that allows the iPod to have full access to all of its speakers, so I'm hoping that I can purchase this appliance and have it work with my AT&T Tilt smart phone for the MP3 feature (which, unfortunately, means that the Parrot did not perform as I expected for this function. As to the Parrot features independent of the speaker/quality sound issues for the MP3 player, I have found that it is slow to recognize the MP3 player feature of my AT&T Tilt smart phone and sometimes it requires re-synching the two. In addition, the "call out" feature of the phone feature is not synched up for "voice only" commands and the "push button" approach to dial a number is not what I would normally want out of a "remote, hands free, voice-activated" system, which I had with my previous Cellport system. This may be my lack of knowledge in how to use the Parrot. The Cellport system came with a CD to instruct the use on how to use its features, and the Parrot comes with a printed "play book" which is cumbersome to use. Because I haven't used the Parrot for phone calls and generally just have used it for playing songs from the MP3 player feature of my AT&T Tilt, I'm "OK" with the Parrot and certainly prefer it to my earbud or to holding the AT&T Tilt to my ear while driving, but it's NOT the A+ standard that I would like to see, and for phone calls, it doesn't measure up with the now "out of date" and probably no longer available Cellport (which was before bluetooth).