Can you get an app for FM transmitter
so you can play your MP3's threw your radio in the car
my workmate has this ability to do this on his phone
( don't know what phone it is not an iPhone though)
stevie_a said:
Can you get an app for FM transmitter
so you can play your MP3's threw your radio in the car
my workmate has this ability to do this on his phone
( don't know what phone it is not an iPhone though)
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I dont think that you can do that with only the phone, as it has only fm receiver not transmitter. But you can do that by buying an fm transmitter accessory. Or get a car radio with bluetooth functionality.
sure he doesnt just use an fm transmitter that you plug into the headphone socket, you can get them for mp3`s,phones,etc and are usually rubbish quality.
Nokia N97 has a built in transmitter doesn't it? I know the Desire you would need to buy a seperate transmitter.
there are number of phones that have FM Transmitting, .. unfortunattly the Desire is not one of them.
You can buy an FM Modulator, this will go into the cigarette thingy in the car, and you can plug in it an iPod or phone or any other that has a decent wiring connection.
radio quality suck though
Nokia N900 has it built in as well.
htc hd2 and nexus one have fm transmitter hardware but not activated ,may be desire has it also
The Desire have the same chip as the Nexus One, but it has the FM receiver enabled out-of-the box.
It should be possible to enable the FM transmitter aswell, but it's all in the drivers.
how or who activates it?
Zappza said:
The Desire have the same chip as the Nexus One, but it has the FM receiver enabled out-of-the box.
It should be possible to enable the FM transmitter aswell, but it's all in the drivers.
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same processor does not mean same wireless chip
The HTC desire is believed to include the Broadcom BCM4329 wireless chip. The specification of this does include an FM Transmitter. Whether or not this can be activated in software is a different matter!
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same processor does not mean same wireless chip
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AFAIK both the Nexus and the Desire uses the same wireless chip aswell, the BCM4329. I haven't seen a teardown of the Desire yet, so there might be some differences, but I do not see why.
Zappza said:
AFAIK both the Nexus and the Desire uses the same wireless chip aswell, the BCM4329. I haven't seen a teardown of the Desire yet, so there might be some differences, but I do not see why.
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do you have any pictures of the components of desire that proves your point ,in hd2 forum we have disasempled the hd2 and proved it ,same in nexus one ,so where is your evidense
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do you have any pictures of the components of desire that proves your point ,in hd2 forum we have disasempled the hd2 and proved it ,same in nexus one ,so where is your evidense
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A teardown won't really prove anything unless you also identified and catalogued every component, proving that none of them are capable of being an FM transmitter? If you have this evidence, please post links. I am already 99.9% certain that no HTC phone has one built in but I like to be 100% sure
Either way, FM transmitters suck. They have to have an extremely weak signal and the sound quality is appalling. If you can afford it, go and grab a head unit that supports bluetooth stereo (A2DP). An FM transmitetr will sot you half as much anyway,
Bluetooth sound quality is much better and depending on the head unit, you should be able to play/pause/skip/vol up/vol down using the controls on the head unit and it will probably also be able to display album/track info.
bcmobile said:
A teardown won't really prove anything unless you also identified and catalogued every component, proving that none of them are capable of being an FM transmitter? If you have this evidence, please post links. I am already 99.9% certain that no HTC phone has one built in but I like to be 100% sure
Either way, FM transmitters suck. They have to have an extremely weak signal and the sound quality is appalling. If you can afford it, go and grab a head unit that supports bluetooth stereo (A2DP). An FM transmitetr will sot you half as much anyway,
Bluetooth sound quality is much better and depending on the head unit, you should be able to play/pause/skip/vol up/vol down using the controls on the head unit and it will probably also be able to display album/track info.
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=622377 look at the attatched image in the link you will se the chip and we already activated wirless n support the only thing remaning is the transmitter
hoss_n2 said:
do you have any pictures of the components of desire that proves your point ,in hd2 forum we have disasempled the hd2 and proved it ,same in nexus one ,so where is your evidense
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Huh, seems that my edit previously did not make it.
I haven't found a teardown yet, but it should pop up in the next few days as easter is over now.
Just to make myself clear, I do not know that the Desire and Nexus have the same wireless chip. It just would not make any sense at all if HTC were to change it when everything else is the same.
It would be amazing if the FM transmitter was enabled in the desire.
I hope it gets in with 2.2 or something...
any idea about FM transmitter on desire...
i think that as the hd2 and nexus they all have wifi n, fm transmitter and receiver...it's just the software that needs tweaking....i am no guru at linux and android so if anyone manage to enable them it would be awsome....although it would be battery drain to transmit yourmusic all the time
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Anyone confirm if the receiver is built into the phone, as opposed to being built into the wired stereo headphones?
It's in the headphones, as usual.
Don't think that's right. Usually, the radio is built into the phone but you need headphones connected - not necessarily the supplied headphones - for the radio to work. That's certainly how it was with my HD2. Otherwise, it means you could not use your own headset.
The headset cable usually acts as the antenna.
Usually these type of devices (phones/mp3 players etc...) have the receiver in the device but they use the headphones as the antenna so if you want to get any signal you need some (Any) headphones connected.
shawon007 said:
Anyone confirm if the receiver is built into the phone, as opposed to being built into the wired stereo headphones?
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I have read it somewhere, .. I confirm that the radio receiver is IN the headset, not inside the phone!
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How ...?
can ANY headphone be used as an antenna?? even ones I bought from ebay??
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I have read it somewhere, .. I confirm that the radio receiver is IN the headset, not inside the phone!
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Maybe you should really think before writing though
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Ofcourse the reciever is in the phone and yes you can use any headset.
The headset purely acts as an antenna.
There are reports that non OEM headsets are a bit hit and miss. Some work, some don't.
Not a feature I will get to use as I have bluetooth headphones
shawon007,
Question - have you tried siwtching your phone off & back on? Your thread made me realise I hadn't tried out the radio on my desire, or the headphone jack for that matter....
Imagine my surprise when I tried the radio with normal headphones and the radio didn't work ... so I tried the official headphones, and they didn't work either, whether for radio or even playing music .... so I grumped about it and figured the jack was faulty. Then I tried powering the phone off & back on (early firmware) and bingo, the radio works.
Oh and standard headphones work just fine too.
Dougie
RDS is missing.. too bad because it was working well on the Tattoo
I'm sure some clever person might be able add it!
What i'd like to know is if it would be possible to add a radio record button
a bit like the ipod nano's
bewA said:
I'm sure some clever person might be able add it!
What i'd like to know is if it would be possible to add a radio record button
a bit like the ipod nano's
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Hi.
This is my first post on this forum. I'm happy to find so many skilled guys on smartphones and android, specifically (though I've never had smartphone development experiences yet ).
I'm very seriously thinking about buying a HTC Desire (I think it's gorgeous) but the missing RDS feature is quite annoying to me.
Maybe someone of you could tell me if the radio chipset is capable of handling RDS, and so a rooted firmware will fix the problem?
Thanks.
shawon007 said:
How ...?
can ANY headphone be used as an antenna?? even ones I bought from ebay??
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My iPod ones work fine...
My Sennheiser earphones do work with the FM Radio, but the reception is quite poor unfortunately
The HTC ones supplied work perfectly, reception is great, shame about the quality of the earphones themselves though.
Cronnie said:
My Sennheiser earphones do work with the FM Radio, but the reception is quite poor unfortunately
The HTC ones supplied work perfectly, reception is great, shame about the quality of the earphones themselves though.
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Maybe armored cable on good earphones don't make a good antenna :/
PS : don't know if "armored" is the correct word in english I want to say "a cable with much protection over electric fields".
Kiiv said:
Maybe armored cable on good earphones don't make a good antenna :/
PS : don't know if "armored" is the correct word in english I want to say "a cable with much protection over electric fields".
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No worries, I know what you mean
I rarely use the radio anyway (got around 10GB of music and videos to keep me occupied), so I guess I will be sticking to my Sennheiser earphones.
Has anyone else had any issues with the radio? When I was using it the other day it completely freaked out and locked up my phone.
Oh and when I was first setting it up and went to set presets it knew the names for some of the stations already, how is it doing that without RDS?
Does it also have FM transmitter?
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RDS is missing.. too bad because it was working well on the Tattoo
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Are you sure? After i tuned to several stations, it's picked up the names fine. BBC Radio 1 is displayed as Radio 1, BBC Radio 2 is shown as BBC R2
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Does it also have FM transmitter?
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No it can't transmit.
Is there ever a possibility of hacking the evo's fm radio to become an fm transmitter?
Sorry if this is duplicate, searched around and didn't see anything else on it.
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I wish
I highly doubt it. Taking a screen and making it into a camera is pretty much what your asking. Maybe you can buy a portable FM transmitter and somehow cram it into a external case that sticks out similar to the 3500mah battery.
mrusheen said:
I highly doubt it. Taking a screen and making it into a camera is pretty much what your asking. Maybe you can buy a portable FM transmitter and somehow cram it into a external case that sticks out similar to the 3500mah battery.
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no the hardware actually says its possible to transmit as well as recieve fm radio. now if someone could actually make it work....
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I highly doubt it. Taking a screen and making it into a camera is pretty much what your asking. Maybe you can buy a portable FM transmitter and somehow cram it into a external case that sticks out similar to the 3500mah battery.
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radio transmitters and receivers aren't fundamentally that different. It's likely possible, but you would need to write it into the kernel.
I would love to see this happen and show it off to a friend that works with the Civil Defense.
No can do. A radio receiver, and transmitter do contain some of the same circuitry but are arranged differently. No software can change that. Plus the phone is not FCC type accepted for transmitting on the FM broadcast band.
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No can do. A radio receiver, and transmitter do contain some of the same circuitry but are arranged differently. No software can change that. Plus the phone is not FCC type accepted for transmitting on the FM broadcast band.
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The phone has an FM Radio Transceiver capable of both broadcasting and receiving. I believe the major reason why we haven't seen a transmitter mode, even HTC, is due to FCC licensing. I'm not too savy on the FCC's world, but I would imagine that the EVO's transmitter would fall under the same low-power group as those little iPod and other PMP FM transmitters that just plug in to the headphone jack.
Might be something to bring up with Cyanogen and some of the kernel devs, after they get the FM receiver working.
I'd like to see this... Bring it up to cyanogen...
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Ah, what exactly do you guys want to transmit? Signal wouldn't get very far...
We've been through this before.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=693253
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=748007
khov07 said:
Ah, what exactly do you guys want to transmit? Signal wouldn't get very far...
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Some of us have cars which are too old to have an Auxilary input, but too new to have a tape deck.
Ha! I read some other posts, and realized that it would definitely be a handy feature. I resigned myself to burning CD's from my music collection, as it got annoying to connect my iPod to an FM transmitter. Extra wires, chargers, and so on.
Well, hopefully someone figures it out. Probably kill the battery though.
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Some of us have cars which are too old to have an Auxilary input, but too new to have a tape deck.
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I would suggest a hardwired FM modulator to add an aux port. My wife's 2004 Mitsubishi Endeavor didn't have one and the FM transmitters sounded crappy to me. Took me about an hour to hardwire a FM modulator in and now she essentially has an AUX port. It sounds much better than the transmitters since it's injecting it's FM frequency directly through your radio's antenna port.
Here's one pretty similar to what I installed - LINK
The drawback compared to a FM transmitter is that this is not portable.
Another possibility is to just purchase a new radio. Some car stereo's with aux inputs are cheaper than a new EVO.
I stopped using my FM transmitter with my iPod a long time ago because I hated the extra cables, and the transmission wasn't very good, though I tried several.
khov07 said:
Another possibility is to just purchase a new radio. Some car stereo's with aux inputs are cheaper than a new EVO.
I stopped using my FM transmitter with my iPod a long time ago because I hated the extra cables, and the transmission wasn't very good, though I tried several.
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Is there some car audio manufacturer that actually makes nice stock-looking radios with features like BT, equalizer, and aux-in, without having to have 20 blinking LEDs or looking like it was part of a boombox from the 90s?
Hi everyone, this is my first ever android device, loving it, especially with Car Home and navigation. I got a car kit (mount, charger etc) for my Thunderbolt and now the only thing left is getting a good FM Transmitter.
If you have any recommendations for an FM Transmitter to be used with the Thunderbolt, please reply here. Also if you do use one currently, let me know.
Thanks in advance
They are all pretty much the same. It's going over FM so sound quality won't be as good as it can be. Any ones that I used with past phones were the same quality (audio wise) whether it was a $10 ebay brand or a $50 Belkin.
ddrj said:
Hi everyone, this is my first ever android device, loving it, especially with Car Home and navigation. I got a car kit (mount, charger etc) for my Thunderbolt and now the only thing left is getting a good FM Transmitter.
If you have any recommendations for an FM Transmitter to be used with the Thunderbolt, please reply here. Also if you do use one currently, let me know.
Thanks in advance
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Yes, I would like to know this as well, since I do not have an AUX plug in my deck.
Does anyone have any exprerience with a specific dock that has an FM transmitter and powers the phone, as well?
The sweet spot would be bluetooth streaming audio like Ford does with Sync, but such systems aren't nearly as available as they need to be for someone without that installed :/
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The sweet spot would be bluetooth streaming audio like Ford does with Sync, but such systems aren't nearly as available as they need to be for someone without that installed :/
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I actually have an 09 Fusion w/ Sync.
I need this for the other car.
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I actually have an 09 Fusion w/ Sync.
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Insert my envy right here!
I use a Belkin transmitter, after trying three, I liked theirs the best.
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Thanks everyone for the helpful tips + suggestions. I have decided from reading these replies that I'm going to hold off on getting an FM transmitter for now. I have a friend who is very good with cars and he told me he'd be able to install an aux input into my car for whatever the part costs me off ebay. I think I may just go with this option.
I just order this today. I'll update with how well it works after a few days with it.
http://www.amazon.com/Transmitter-Hands-Free-Capability-Blackberry-Smartphones/dp/B003PPGOC0/ref=pd_rhf_p_t_1
ddrj said:
Thanks everyone for the helpful tips + suggestions. I have decided from reading these replies that I'm going to hold off on getting an FM transmitter for now. I have a friend who is very good with cars and he told me he'd be able to install an aux input into my car for whatever the part costs me off ebay. I think I may just go with this option.
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Going that way will get you much better audio quality than an FM transmitter will.
If you're stuck with using an FM transmitter, then the best one you can get is the Scoshe (I think that's how you spell it) *WIRED* FM transmitter from Wal-Mart. It runs off a 12v line (pull out your car stereo and cram or splice the wires into the 12v input and the ground), then it actually plugs into the back of your stereo, and your antenna plugs into the unit. When you flip the switch, it basically kills your antenna, so you can't get any interference at all. It is the absolute best FM transmitter you can get (as far as I'm concerned).
just get those mp3 player to tape-deck things, if you still have a tape deck in your car. it will be way better quality than FM transmitters.
brandogg said:
If you're stuck with using an FM transmitter, then the best one you can get is the Scoshe (I think that's how you spell it) *WIRED* FM transmitter from Wal-Mart. It runs off a 12v line (pull out your car stereo and cram or splice the wires into the 12v input and the ground), then it actually plugs into the back of your stereo, and your antenna plugs into the unit. When you flip the switch, it basically kills your antenna, so you can't get any interference at all. It is the absolute best FM transmitter you can get (as far as I'm concerned).
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I've seen these on crutchfield but I think if you're going to go through all the trouble why not just jut a new head unit in that has AUX? If you MUST go FM I'd do it this way but honestly it's as much work as a new head unit which would give you better sound quality than your stock stereo anyway.
Actually, I found the cheaper "ebay brands" to be better than the expensive brands. I had a run where I was buying new ones about every two months to use in my work cars, and the best ones were the ebay 7 dollar ones from Hong Kong. I have no verifiable proof of such, but this is my opinion which it seemed the OP asked for. Make sure you get one that has selectable bands though the entire fm range.
Nilius17 said:
I just order this today. I'll update with how well it works after a few days with it.
http://www.amazon.com/Transmitter-H...ry-Smartphones/dp/B003PPGOC0/ref=pd_rhf_p_t_1
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After about a week with this transmitter, I can say that I'd recommend it, for the $ it's fantastic. I've tried $75-100 ones from Best Buy & returned them within a day. This transmitter works much better than any of those.
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Honestly I just use the jabra cruiser. It has great battery life and has a built in fm transmitter. It work perfectly for me and I have very little interference with it. I use it to stream music on a 4 hour drive I make once a month and with the HTC car dock my setup couldnt be any better, full gps navigation via car speakers and live streaming radio thanks to tunein radio pro.
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komradefox said:
just get those mp3 player to tape-deck things, if you still have a tape deck in your car. it will be way better quality than FM transmitters.
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I have one of these in my car, and it is fantastic!
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Hello folks!
I am wondering wether it is possible that we could enjoy some sort of FM transmitter app on the galaxy nexus, so that we can stream audio to a specified FM setup and listen to our phone's music on our car radio or bathroom radio? I know it doesn't come with stock ICS but maybe a little hack can do some good?
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This is a Q&A topic ...
And the answer is NO, it is not possible. There is no emitter hardware in these phones.
ro_explorer said:
This is a Q&A topic ...
And the answer is NO, it is not possible. There is no emitter hardware in these phones.
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no FM hardware, as far as I know.
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The theory:
The Broadcom BCM4330 single chip device provides the highest level of integration for a mobile or handheld wireless system, with integrated IEEE 802.11 a/b/g and single-stream 802.11 n (MAC/baseband/radio), Bluetooth 4.0+HS, and FM radio receiver and transmitter. It includes on-chip 2.4GHz and 5 GHz WLAN power amplifies that meet the output power requirements for most handheld systems while permitting and optional external power amplifier for higher output power applications. It leverages an integrated ARM® Cortex™-M3 processor and on-chip memory. This device was extracted from the Murata KM1602121 module.
The radio transmitter hardware is made from 2 pieces. The first piece is represented by the control chip while the second one is represented by the rf discreet components like coils , capacitors and everything else in between. This second part is missing.
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FM transmitters are things of the 90s. Get a new stereo, and you can stream bluetooth. Better quality, less noise/interference, shows track info, skip tracks from stereo...
Win/win
bekyndnunwind said:
FM transmitters are things of the 90s. Get a new stereo, and you can stream bluetooth. Better quality, less noise/interference, shows track info, skip tracks from stereo...
Win/win
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You know that there is people talking in a radio and not everyone enjoy listening only to music ? I do have a bluetooth car stereo and i still use the FM radio sometime.
chadouming said:
You know that there is people talking in a radio and not everyone enjoy listening only to music ? I do have a bluetooth car stereo and i still use the FM radio sometime.
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that's not what he was saying. He was saying that using FM from your phone to your car radio is pointless when Bluetooth is better quality. He was not saying anything bad about over the air FM radio I believe.
Not that I am trying to put words in his mouth, nor do I particularly agree with him.
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thank you all for your answers! i'll stick with my crappy radio until I can afford a bluetooth one
PS: sorry for the wrong choice of thread, haven't noticed the Q&A topic.
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hello,
i see that there are plenty of fm transmitter for the iPhone! and not even one that connects to micro-usb port...
have i missed something?
btw, is there an fm transmitter with bt so i cant connect trough bt, with good quality?
thanks
If you googled it and you don't see any then probably not. Maybe the manufactures don't think android is worth investing in, the same reason there are way more variety of cases for iPhone than android. Or maybe because there are so many different android phone manufacturers with their own android framework like TW for example. Just guessing though...
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Search on Ebay
Search on ebay, there are a lot of fm transmiters. But none works with the Micro USB because very few phones have audio out in the micro usb (its only 5 pins).
i have tried 2 bluetooth and fm transmiter for iphone and 3 for android and dont have good sound while transmit for blueetooh, have lost of quality. Its better for wire.
Sorry for my English. I speak spanish.
I don't know you situation, but cassette adapter is not an option to you? Personally I'm using one to connect my phone and my car stereo. It works pretty well, although the 4th adapter worked with my head unit.
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I don't know you situation, but cassette adapter is not an option to you? Personally I'm using one to connect my phone and my car stereo. It works pretty well, although the 4th adapter worked with my head unit.
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it is an option,
but i want to use pandora like app... so i don't need to make a playlist. just connect the phone and listening from the web.
Take a look here
http://www.plantronics.com/us/product/k100/
It´s a BT handsfree wich also have an FM transmitter. I´ve buyed one on amazon a few months ago, for less than half the price served on the official website.
You can pair the phone through BT and then (optionally) send the audio to your FM radio car. Also you can choose in your phone wich audio route (calls, media or both).
Good design and audio quality is good in my opinion. Just one complaint: depending on the city/zone you live, FM frequencies may be oversaturated and this can make noise or static interferences.