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Bluetooth speaker for car usage

Hi all.

I'm considering the purchase of a Bluetooth speaker to be used with an iPhone 7+ while travelling.

Searching on the web, I discovered there's a wide range of possibilities: as I have no previous experience with this kind of device, I thought I'd ask here for more informed opinions.

My wish list (more or less in decreasing order of importance):

- easy and reliable pairing with iPhone (I heard iPhone 7 have issues with Bluetooth, not sure if it's true)
- as cheap as possible (I'm willing to spend a bit if quality justifies it, but it's for car listening after all)
- support for hand-free calls

A bonus would be a car recharger, but I have yet to find a speaker that includes it.

Thanks.

Alessandro

Re: Bluetooth speaker for car usage

Reply #1 –
Most cars do have an audio system.
If it has a AUX input somewhere you might consider a Bluetooth receiver and plug it in the car audio.
TheWellTemperedComputer.com

Re: Bluetooth speaker for car usage

Reply #3 –
I have no knowledge of iphones but think mostly any bluetooth speaker will do what you want, including handle voice calls. The issue will be volume. I found that when I tried this, at motorway speed the speaker could not go loud enough to cope. As for charging, most bluetooth speakers nowadays charge via microUSB. So a standard usb type A to microUSB cable will work if you buy a usb adapter for the car's cigarette lighter socket.
 

Re: Bluetooth speaker for car usage

Reply #4 –
If you have a DIN compatible dash I just recommend you get a Pioneer car receiver, they're cheap enough and offer Bluetooth hands-free profile 1.6 with wideband audio for twice the audio bandwidth for voice calls (8kHz as opposed to 4). You do need to have a wideband compatible call plan, or use pretty much any VoIP app, most of which support wideband codecs.

So with that said, what I was using when my 96 Civic was getting broken into regularly was this amp tucked in the hole where the stereo used to be https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004HJ931M/, and to it was connected this BT adapter https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00KR14QR0/, which is not available right now, but last I checked there are a bunch of similar ones of different cheap brands.