Product Features:
- Full system dedicated to keeping connected and entertained in your car
- Blue OLED 2 lines Screen lets you see whose calling or what song is playing
- Double microphone technology eliminates background and surrounding noise, including noise from inside the car
- Listen to your digital music in the car: compatible with all music sources, such as iPods, iPhones, and more
- Cutting-edge telephony functions like automatic phonebook synchronization, training-free multi-speaker voice recognition, and more
Amazon.com Product Description The Parrot MKi9100 Advanced Bluetooth hands free car kit is a unique range of Bluetooth hands-free car kits which install in every car. It combines the latest communication technologies with a full set of services dedicated to music. The Parrot MKi9100 is a Bluetooth hands-free system with an OLED screen. A wireless remote control can be positioned on the steering wheel or dashboard and allows the driver to control all the functions of the MKi9100. Parrot MKi9100 kit comes with everything you need to be connected and entertained.
Click to enlarge. In addition to conventional telephony functions (pick up, hang up, dual calls) the Parrot MKi9100 boasts cutting-edge telephony functions: automatic phon
“Parrot MKi9100 Advanced Bluetooth Hands-Free Car Kit” Reviews:
Review by Joel Kolstad
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I installed this in our Honda Fit using an aftermarket harness to make it (almost) “plug and play.” I decided to purchase this rather than the Bluetooth add-on for the (Pioneer) stereo already installed, as it (Pioneer’s Bluetooth unit) received pretty mediocre reviews, cost more, and of course wouldn’t work if I eventually decide to put in a different brand stereo someday.
If you’re never installed a car radio before, this probably isn’t the first thing you should install yourself — I’d recommend having it professionally installed, since there are a good-sized handful of cables coming out of this thing that need to get routed properly, and you will most likely have to do some minor drilling and/or cutting to count the display and microphone if you want a really “clean” installation. As a yardstick, I probably spent 4 hours total on the installation.
Anyway, then, it does work as designed. The interface is fast and responsive, and I like the quality of the display. The software is pretty well thought out — perhaps A++-super-nerd programmers don’t work at Parrot, but certainly above-average ones do. Pairing works quite nicely, automatically connecting to my phone when I get in the car & turn on the ignition and disconnecting shortly after the ignition goes off. When you’re on a call, it asserts the “mute” line to the car’s stereo which also pauses CD/USB/iPod playback, which is nice. I haven’t had any of the communication failures/lock-ups that another reviewer here did.
Some minor gripes are as follows:
— While the noise reduction is effective up to ~45MPH (most callers wouldn’t be able to guess you’re calling from a car), it breaks down at highway speeds: Callers will still find you intelligible, but the occasional piece of a word is cut off and there is noticeable distortion. I attribute this so some degree to the rather noisy interior that is the Honda Fit (and most other inexpensive Hondas, for that matter) — at some level apparently the Parrot just can’t reliably separate your voice from the as loud or louder cabin noise. Those with quieter cabins may not ever experience this problem. (I have tried turning “lateral noise detection” off and it does make things worse.)
— When hanging up calls, I often have to press the “hang up” button a couple of times. I suspect this is likely to be just as much the fault of the Parrot as my phone (a Sprint HTC Touch Pro 2), but it is a bit annoying.
— The manual is rather spartan. While it contains information on all the “basics,” it does leave out explanations for some menu functions, which you’re hence left to guess at. While most have names that make it easy to figure them out, there are a few where it’s not quite clear exactly what the option does.
I think that this is a little on the spendy side for what you’re getting, but overall I’m happy with it and feel that I’ve received a reasonable (if not spectacular) value for the money.
Review by Alejandro Valerin
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I had this Parrot professionaly installed on my Pioneer AVH-P4100DVD, it works great for making and receiving calls, windows down or up, people hear me great on the other side, noone has complained about hearing noises on the background.
It pulls not only my contact list from my iPhone but also the battery charge level on the little screen. Voice commands work amazingly good.
The only complaint I have is that if you turn on the unit (when you turn on your car) with the iPhone already connected to the radio, when the iPhone starts to play music, the Parrot will detect it and WILL swap the music to bluetooth, that means that it will mute the radio, freeze the iPhone music controls on it and transfer both audio and iPhone controls to the Parrot unit…. I hate that. The only way I get around this is to connect the iPhone to my radio interface AFTER the Parrot has turned on completely and detected and sincronized the iPhone.
But, again, the bluetooth connectivity for making and receiving calls, works like a charm.
Review by F. Paz
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It works flawleslly in my suzuki grand vitara.
The functionality is great. It accepts many sources of audio. The mic and voice recognition software works fine. The screen is functional and small enough to be unnoticed as an add on to the vehicle (and unattractive to a thief when it ain’t on).
I have seen some bad reviews because of faulty units. This is definetely solved if you buy from the right vendor. I bought mine from amazon even though it was more expensive and that actually paid off because the initial unit I received didn’t even turn on. Amazon sent me a replacement within 10 minutes after I communicated the problem at no cost at all. For me, the wait was worth because the unit now works great.
Finally, I won’t give it a five because of:
a) The voice recognition software does not give you a chance to confirm if it understood correctly
b) If you pause a song, let’s say on your Ipod, and the radio then the radio comes out of the speakers.. for me that’s a software error that should be fixed
Overall Rating: (out of 23 reviews)
Price: Too low to display
