Bluetooth HandsFree Car Kits For Calls Via Smartphone. Handsfree Bluetooth car kit systems committed to discussion and tunes incar with colour TFT display screens. After testing on multiple setups across 50 hours, we think Ankers SoundSync Drive is the best Bluetooth car kit for most people who have an auxin port. The SuperTooth BUDDY is a Bluetooth car speakerphone. It links wirelessly by Bluetooth with your phone and allows you to have handsfree calls while driving. EN/HDVOICE/IMG/GALLERY/FULL5.jpg' alt='Supertooth Buddy Hands Bluetooth Visor Car-kit Manual Arts' title='Supertooth Buddy Hands Bluetooth Visor Car-kit Manual Arts' />Boasting an incredibly compact and sleek contemporary design, the SuperTooth Buddy with Bluetooth offers a massive 20 hours of talktime and 1000 hours standby. Supertooth Buddy Hands Bluetooth Visor Carkit ManualeThe Best Bluetooth Kits for Every Car Stereo Wirecutter Reviews. Aux in kits. For the 2. The charger included with Mpows Streambot didnt work, and we heard a whine over our car stereo when using i. Clevers Himbox HB0. Aukeys Bluetooth Car Kit didnt have such obvious problems, but it simply didnt sound as good as the Sound. Sync Drive. The Go. Groove Smart. Mini Aux was a previous top pick because it has great call and sound quality and a built in battery. Instead of a round central unit that attaches to your dash, it consists of a small dongle that you can either plug directly into the aux input if that input is close enough to the drivers side of the car or mount on a small Velcro pedestal that you can then attach anywhere on the dash. However, the single button interface can be a bit confusing, and although battery life is decent up to six hours on a single charge, according to the manufacturer, you must provide your own car charger, which adds to the overall cost. This is excusable for the superior Sound. Sync Drive, but the Smart. Mini simply isnt as strong of a contender. Avantrees Cara II initially struck us as a pretty good alternative to the Himbox when the latter  was our pick. Selling for about 4. Instead of using an integrated charging cord, it comes packed with a micro USB cable that can be removed if necessaryfor example, to replace it with a different one. A battery inside allows the unit to run for up to 2. The Cara II also has a dedicated onoff switch, the only one of the pack to offer the feature. However, in a live test against the Himbox, our caller noted an echo of about 1. This is such a serious strike against the system that keeps it from being a top pick, which is a shame, because its an otherwise very good product. The Belkin Car. Audio Connect was the worst aux in kit we tested. Music had noticeable underlying distortion, and sound quality was bad for incoming and outgoing phone calls. In the voicemail test, the quality was even worse Voicemails sounded echoey and distorted and were almost unintelligible with the windows down. In a later round of testing, we included another option from Belkin, the Hands Free Bluetooth Car Kit. The results were far better than what we saw with its more expensive sibling Streaming audio was much clearer, and voicemails were more intelligible. Voice quality wasnt the absolute best, though, and it still picked up more wind noise than some of the other units. This Belkin kit is a good one, but without any differentiating features, it doesnt rise to the top. Only one of the units we tested, i. Krosss A2. DP Bluetooth 4. Aux 3. 5mm Handsfree Stereo Microphone Car Kit, will let you control both volume level and track playback using physical buttons. While both of those features worked well in our testing, the units voice control activation was unreliable. But the biggest reason this one failed to make the grade was its voice quality With the car windows down and the vehicle traveling at about 5. We didnt test the Scosche Motor. Mouth II, which uses a design similar to that of the Smart. Mini Aux, as its more expensive than other options and has spotty reviews on Amazon 2. Sound. Bots SB3. It doesnt have a hardware button that can trigger Siri or Google Now, and it doesnt support multiple paired devices. We do like the charger it comes with, which provides one 2. But this feature isnt enough to overcome the SB3. Frieqs Bluetooth 4. Hands Free Car Kit lacks multiple device support and voice assistant activation. It also doesnt sound particularly great on the other end of a phone call, and neither port on the charger it ships with is labeled to indicate how much current it can provide the company also doesnt specify the output in the manual. Griffin Technology has two options, each of which is lacking compared with the competition. The i. Trip Aux Bluetooth takes up your cars accessory power port without providing additional USB power ports, and it offers no physical controls. The i. Trip Aux, on the other hand, does provide power for your phone, but only through a permanently attached Lightning plug cable. This makes the i. Trip Aux compatible only with i. OS devices, cutting off a huge segment of the market for no good reason. If all you have are i. Phones, it might be a decent option, but we didnt test it. Star Wars Empire At War No Cd Patch on this page. In previous versions of this guide, we dismissed Brightechs Bright. Play Car Kit, Aukeys BR C3, Tao. Tronicss Bluetooth Receiver, and Kinivos BTC4. FM transmitters. We tried the Mpow Flex 2 in 1 FM Transmitter for the 2. One tester found the shiny silver design unsightly, and no one liked the quality of the voicemail messages we generated through it. Intusoft Magnetics Designer. We previously recommended Mpows Streambot Y as the best option for most people. Its FM streaming quality is great and we like its ease of tuning, but voice quality simply isnt as good as with our top pick. If voice quality isnt a major concern, and this one happens to be on sale, its a good alternative. Another of our former top picks is Go. Grooves Flex. Smart X3. The base, which plugs into your cars accessory power outlet, is attached to a long flexible arm. But the Flex. Smart X3 simply didnt perform as well as the Streambot Y or Flex. Smart X2 in our latest round of tests. CNETs Antuan Goodwin also reviewed this model and awarded it only 2. As its name suggests, the Go. Groove Flex. Smart X3 Compact is essentially a slimmed down version of the Flex. Smart X3. Instead of a long, flexible arm connecting its control pod and display to its charger plug, it has a short, rigid plastic arm. However, the unit we tested would tune only to even numbered frequencies for example, 9. United States. This is obviously a bug, but Amazon reviews indicate that were not the only people to experience this issue with the X3 Compact. The Go. Groove Smart. Mini BT is actually CNETs Antuan Goodwins pick for best FM transmitter. He claims that the auto scan is superior to that of the full size X3. But in our tests, it didnt function any better than the X3 Compact. As with the X3 Compact, the Smartmini BT regularly auto scanned to even numbered frequencies. Amazon reviews again indicate that this is not a one off occurrence. Unlike the X3 Compact, the Smart. Mini BT would occasionally scan to an odd numbered station, but the the signal was barely strong enough to hear music over the static, much less to make a phone call. The Belkin Car. Audio Connect is significantly more expensive than other FM transmitters, and its Amazon reviews are not very good 2. Speakerphones. Jabras Freeway Speakerphone is the closest competitor to the Roadster 2. It has many of the same features, including an FM transmitter, native voice commands, and motion sensors. It even beats the Motorola when it comes to speaker quality, as the Freeway has a much bigger and better sounding speaker than the Roadster 2. The tradeoff for that better audio quality, however, is size At 3. Freeway is nearly twice the size of the Roadster 2. Thats too big. Especially considering that it doesnt have dedicated music playback controls. It relies solely on voice commands for this you say play, stop, or next track. It also has a worse FM transmitter. Most annoyingly, its voice command handling is very clunky. In order to access your phones voice commands, you have to push a button on the speaker and say phone commands before you can access Siri or Google Now.