For the past two or so years, I've been using an iPod Touch for music and a Droid X for phone. In the car, I had set up two separate BT "kits". Clipped to my visor is a Moto speaker that is paired to the Droid, no problem. As of about a year ago, plugged into the stereo's aux input jack is a Belkin BT converter that was paired to the iTouch, no problem (the Belkin unit replaces a hard-wired setup I had been using as the intent at the time was to put everything on the Droid and its headphone jack sucks). As of two days ago, I now have an iPhone 5. This replaces both the Droid and the iTouch. And there is a problem.
I paired the iPhone to the Belkin adapter, and for music, it works just as good as it did with the iTouch. However, voice quality for phone calls sucks. Not just what the other person hears from me, but also what I hear. It's not static, and it's not volume. It's garbled. I could barely make out what the other person was saying. That was the only call attempted using the iPhone in the car so far.
Same phone, same caller, but on my end using the same Plantronics bluetooth over-the-ear headset that I used with the Droid, no problem for voice calls or music (except that it's monaural). I would prefer to stay with bluetooth, as that means only one thing to plug into the phone (the power/charge cord) rather than two (plus a cord). Is this a fault with the phone, the Belkin unit, or a random one-off glitch?
I paired the iPhone to the Belkin adapter, and for music, it works just as good as it did with the iTouch. However, voice quality for phone calls sucks. Not just what the other person hears from me, but also what I hear. It's not static, and it's not volume. It's garbled. I could barely make out what the other person was saying. That was the only call attempted using the iPhone in the car so far.
Same phone, same caller, but on my end using the same Plantronics bluetooth over-the-ear headset that I used with the Droid, no problem for voice calls or music (except that it's monaural). I would prefer to stay with bluetooth, as that means only one thing to plug into the phone (the power/charge cord) rather than two (plus a cord). Is this a fault with the phone, the Belkin unit, or a random one-off glitch?