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Nice little radio. You cannot beat the wealth of features you get for the price. The UI and button layout, however, leave much to be desired. After you spend a few days figuring out how to use everything you are likely to be well pleased.

Bluetooth is great. Once set up, it will automatically pair with your phone when it turns on. Voice quality is acceptable through the built in mic, a little better with the attachable external mic. Incoming sound is usually clear. The system pays for itself just by having bluetooth.

Navigating SD cards can be a chore, but it can be done. You can search by title or browse folders and files. Looks like a 2GB limit on cards. And I think there is a limit on the number of files. I had to reformat my SD cards before the system would read them. The tuner is nice with RDS, having the ability to see station identification and song information.

I've had this stereo since march, now 8/07. So far it has been great. The microphone for bluetooth could work a little better and when making calls via bluetooth it also takes a while for the sterero to start ringing the other device.... about twenty seconds after dialing will the other line start to ring. The SD input works great, but it seems to get caught up on my file structure. I haven't tried just putting all my music into one top-level folder, but I suppose I should.

I love the inputs, aux, usb, blue-tooth (can play music via bluetooth from the phone), SD, CD. The audio quality was a big improvement. I didn't realize how bad my previous audio quality was until I got this stereo installed.

Overally, this is the best full-featured, multi-input, bluetooth car phone for the price. You can control the audio of your conversation via the standard stereo volume which is really nice when driving down the highway. Just wish they had a better way of navigating SD directories and would like to know why it can't seem to see all my files.

As someone who has installed many car head units, the wiring has gotten pretty simple, and as such, the installation was a snap. Bluetooth pairing with my Alltel Moto E815 went off equally without a hitch, tho occasionally the phone loses its connection (with no "alarm" unless you happen to see the phone light up when the event happens) even tho the stereo's lcd readout indicates it's paired. No biggie, just find it on the phone and re-establish connection and it usually stays that way. Sound quality is excellent and can go as loud as your car speakers can handle. I've only had one person say they have a hard time hearing/understanding me when I'm using it, but that may be a limitation of the service (or phone) in their area and not necessarily a problem with the stereo itself.
The only thing I don't like or haven't figured out is how to "bookmark" or resume from a memory position while listening to MP3s. I have a great many audio books in my collection for which I use a pocket pc, but trying them on cd or sd card in the head unit so far has only met with frustration as it starts over from the beginning of whatever file you were listening to whenever you stop, then restart your car. But to be fair, this may be user error, since I haven't gotten around to calling their tech suppport to ask about it. (BTW, this unit doesn't really have anything like "tech support" on their website other than being able to download the .PDF file of the manual that comes with it.) Overall tho, it's miles above the old head unit I removed for it, so for the money, it's definitely worth it for all the features it provides.

So far I've had this installed for about 3 days in my truck. I have an xv6700 htc apache phone. Initially I had some issues with A2DP and playback of music from the phone to the unit but this was the fault of the phone which I was able to clear up by flashing the phone to a newer version of the OS. The bluetooth stereo works great now using it to listen to podcasts on the way back and forth to work. It even supports controlling the music player from the stereo itself (this was using the built in windows media player not sure about others haven't tested).

The phone part seems to work pretty well from what I've tested. It does have a built in mic so you don't need to plug in the external one if you don't want to. So far people have been able to hear me ok with the built-in one however I imagine it would be better to hook up the external if I could figure where to route it without looking messy.

For the price I would definitely recommend this unit to anyone looking for a cheap upgrade that gets bluetooth functionality in your car, not to mention the fact that it has SD/USB an AUX in jack on the front and some other things as well that are nice.

I am not one to leave reviews for stuff very often but this little stereo has blown me away. If you are the least bit techy you will love it. USB/SD on the front and an aux port. On top of that the built-in bluetooth is killer. I paired it up with my blackberry 8830 and it works like a champ. My wife calls me 10000000+ times on my ride home from work and now I don't have to fumble around with stupid star-trek like earpeices or a sub-par speakerphone. There are a ton of nice little add-ons that you normally wouldn't expect from a radio at this price. The external mic. for example is great. In addition, they include an aux cable for you (Saves a few bucks and a headache). I am thoroughly impressed. Quality product and you can't beat the price. BUY ONE TODAY!!!