GOgroove FlexSMART X2 ADVANCED Wireless In-Car Bluetooth FM Transmitter with Charging and Hands-Free Capability – CONNECTS TO YOUR ANDROID THROUGH BLUETOOTH, No need for factory installed bluetooth, THEN TRANSMITS Hi-Fi AUDIO TO YOUR CAR FM STEREO – EASY SETUP – Talk, Charge and Play ALL ANDROID Phones – HTC, Google, T-Mobile, Motorola, Samsung, LG
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- Superior design combines important features in just one unit. Play music, make hands-free calls and charge your device. No need for factory installed bluetooth to get benefits of bluetooth high quality sound. Equipped with the MOST ADVANCED BLUETOOTH FM TRANSMITTER available today!
- Equipped with On-Board Volume, Play Settings and Phone Controls. The compact design and flexible neck ensure a good fit in nearly any vehicle!
- ENHANCED VOICE DETECTION Microphone makes hands-free calls easy while driving. Just sync your phone and plug-in, and you are ready to talk!
- AUTO-TUNE feature makes finding the clearest FM Station simple! Just press down the control knob and the best station is automatically found for you! Then just match your car stereo station and your good to go.
- FREE 3 YEAR WARRANTY, SERVICE AND SUPPORT!!! Quality Guaranteed by Accessory Power – Includes Free Microfiber Cloth!
Product Description
The GOgroove FlexSMART X2
Talk, Charge and Play your ANDROID Phone ON THE GO!
Play Music Through Your Car Speakers!
Sound quality is SUPERIOR to most any FM Transmitter on the market, and now features an enhanced FM Bluetooth Transmitting Chipset with DC Surge Protection.
A well designed display and easy to use frequency finder, makes tuning into your music simple!
Make and Receive Calls on your Phone… More >>
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When I got the HTC Evo back at the beginning of June I just went to Wal Mart and picked up an FM transmitter there for 50 dollars, but it would only transmit to the radio but not charge the phone. For anyone who has an Evo, you know that the battery life is not good. Plus it had a so much excess wiring. I returned it and bought this off of amazon and it is amazing. It paired within 10 seconds and transmits with barely noticeable no static, transmits far better than the 50 dollar thing I got from Wal-Mart or the FM transmitter I had for my iphone. I put my phone onto pandora, plug in the charger and set it down and if a song comes up I want to skip, I can just hit the forward button on the flexSmart unit which can be easily adjusted to any position for your hand.
I love this thing, its not obtrusive, theres not a ton of excess wiring, just the gooseneck and if you want to charge it simultaneously you can just plug it into the usb port with the included 6 inch wire or use your own. The calls come in clear and great too, just as good as any bluetooth headset.
I highly recommend this if you dont have an auxiliary port in your car stereo, I was considering getting the gomadic one which is only 5 dollars cheapers, but has so much more wiring and the typical inconvenient control module built into the wiring. I’m really glad I got this one, I’m about to drive from DC to Portland and this thing will make the trip much more bearable and its not an eye sore in the car.
Rating: 5 / 5
This product is an FM transmitter that connects to your Phone via bluetooth, and then transmits the audio to your car stereo through an FM signal. Just the same as other FM transmitters, but using bluetooth connection to your phone rather than a cord.
Setup:
I take a lot of trips up to Santa Barbara on the weekends and it’s about 90 miles away. I use this with my Motorola Droid usually, but also with my friends’ phones too. First you just plug the FLEXSMART X2 into the cigarette outlet in your car, and then press the power button. You see the LCD light up and you can adjust the FM station with the twisting knob. Just match the FM station on the FLEXSMART X2 and your car FM radio. To find the best station you can just hold down the twisting knob for a few seconds and it automatically finds a clear station for you. All you have to do to put the FLEXSMART X2 into pairing mode is hold the blue call button for a couple seconds, and then the lights start to flash. Then you go into your bluetooth settings on whatever phone you have and search for FLEXSMART X2 from the list. It usually connects in about 5 seconds. You here two beeps. One thing to notice is that when you want to disconnect one phone and connect a friend’s, you have to unpair the 1st phone before connecting the 2nd one.
Sound for Music and Calls:
The sound quality for music seems to be very good. It’s way less interference than other FM transmitters, I think it’s possibly because there are no wires connecting the phone to the transmitter. Bluetooth music seems to be superior. One thing I did notice was a difference in my sound levels with the bass and treble. I just tweaked the bass and treble levels and got it sounding the way I like. Call quality is different. I can’t figure it out…sometimes when I make or receive calls everything is perfect.. then sometimes the person I’m talking to says they can hear their voice echo in the background, BUT they sound fine to me??? It only happens maybe 1 out of 10 times.. but I can’t figure out what causes it… maybe a bad cell phone signal I’m not sure. BUt for the most part calls sound good and I like how I can answer and end calls without ever toughing my phone
Controls:
You can answer and end calls by the controls on FLEXSMART X2, and you can even hold down the call button to call the same person you last talked to. The twisting knob is used for fm station tuning. Twsting it will change the FM station by 0.1 with each click. One cool feature is this Auto-Seek that finds clear stations for you. You just hold down the twisting knob and it zooms into a clear station…very cool. Also, the knob controls volume if you click it down just once. It seems like the best sound comes when you turn the FLEXMSART X2 volume up to 30, and then your car radio at about mid level(depending on how loud you like your music). I’ve noticed by turning up the volume on FLEXSMART X2 first the sound quality is really great. The play, forward and back buttons control your music. These controls worked great on most phones I’ve tried, but only the play and pause control worked on the iPhone 3GS we used.
Other cool things…..
I noticed that when you leave your phoen bluetooth on, FLEXSMART X2 automatically re-pairs it when you turn your car on. Thats pretty cool. It also comes with 3 usb cables which can charge iPods and almost any cell phone. It has a USB port on the side of it that you connect these cables to, so you could charge your phone or your friend’s phone even though your cigarette outlet is being taken up.
The lights are also really cool at night. They go nice with my 2002 Volkswagen console lights. ALSO, you can use this just like any other FM transmitter if you have an iPod or something without bluetooth capability. It has a 3.5mm headphone cord jack and a two-way cable. It’s cool that you can use it even with things(mp3 players / laptops) that don’t have bluetooth capability.
What a cool product… for sure one of the coolest car audio products I’ve ever used…hahha and my friends like it too.
Rating: 5 / 5
I just received this in the mail. I have a T-Mobile HTC Touch Pro 2, and I needed something to play music in my car. My iPod’s dock was iPod only. My first concern was about how the title says “Android Phones.” I thought a Touch Pro 2 wouldn’t work, so I was nervous about it coming, but I thought I’d try. I gave it a whirl just now and, poof, I was listening to the audio from Back to the Future in my car! Haven’t had much time to play with it, but seems pretty functional. My main concern going into it is how my iPod’s dock was very effective at canceling out static, so I hope this is able to do it just as well.
Rating: 5 / 5
I read a review of this in one of the Android forums and decided to take a gamble.
I paid $35.00 for the item, and that’s a fair price. Not sure why the price keeps on fluctuating like mad for this. At $50 (which is what it is today) I really can’t recommend this, but at $35 then definitely.
This works seamlessly with my NexusOne. With FroYo (Android 2.2) as soon as I get in my car and turn on the ignition in about 10 seconds I hear two beeps out the radio speakers and I’m jamming.
Don’t do a lot of calling in the car but did talk to my elderly parents who had a bit of difficulty hearing me. It may have been them though so not too concerned.
The gooseneck is a little wonky (it doesn’t want to stay in a “convenient” position) but it’s not a big deal.
The LED displays are a plus, and they’re bright.
There’s a nob that manually adjusts the transmit frequency (in .1 MHz increments so technically I guess this will work in Japan and Russia), and if you depress the nob it adjusts the transmit “volume”. My only gripe is that the broadcast volume mode is not static. After a few seconds it switches right back to broadcast frequency mode which seems lame. Wish it was the other way around as I have a need to adjust the volume MUCH more than I do to change the frequency.
Also, the kit comes with lots of cables. A USB-B to mini-usb connector for Blackberries, a USB-B to micro-usb connector for newer phones, and a 30pin Dock connector for the iPhone/ iPod. But that’s just for charging. Audio is received either through bluetooth or Line In.
There’s also a Line Out for connecting to your stereo’s Aux In jack but that kinda seems moot.
My only real complaint is that it’s not shielded very well. I can hear my alternator which is why I said this is worth $35 to have my tunes, podcasts, and Pandora with me while I’m driving to work, but if I paid $50 for this then I’d be probably sending this back.
Rating: 4 / 5
I got the unit when it just came out on amazon, so kinda of took the plunge, but saved some money too as I got for $35!!
This unit does 4 things, here is my review for each:
-Charger: Charges the phone just fine, not as quick as my in home charger, but its fine.
-FM Transmitter: Works ok, it found a station fine and quality is ok, but there is some background static, goes up and down at time, but I have yet to find a static free FM transmitter.
-Blue tooth: Connects right away, good stuff.
-Hands off calling: works well a bit worse than an “in ear” unit, but it works.
All around this unit is good, downright great for the $35 price!
Rating: 4 / 5