Just use the provided adhesive pad to stick the control wherever is most accessible for you. This same button acts as the play and pause, and there are “previous” and “next” buttons on the control as well, so there really is no need to ever touch your phone! That way you can use voice command to call or text without your hands ever leaving the wheel, gearshift, or E-brake…depending on what type of driving you’re doing. Hold the button down and it will either take you to Siri, or your voice command if using an android.

Double tap this button and it calls the last person you called. Use the same button to answer or hang up. You can communicate through the device just like a Bluetooth ear piece, so there’s no need to hold the phone up to your mouth or in your lap, and their voice is piped through the car’s speakers. Every function can be operated using the “control disk” as I like to call it (see pic below.) The central button is called the “Multi-function button”. If you have a call coming in, just press the button and it answers for you. Stick it in the cup holder or in the center console. First of all it’s Bluetooth, so there’s no need for your phone to be plugged into anything. If you do have the aux-in jack, it’s really useful. Yes…more of a pain than it’s worth.Īlso if you have that awkward year of car that’s too “modern” and cool for a tape deck, yet not advanced enough for an aux-in jack, then you’re pretty much screwed. You could use a tape deck adapter, but you’d need a 3.5mm female adapter to connect the aux-in and aux-out plugs to each-other. The Kinivo BTC450 really only works if you have a built-in aux-in audio jack.

Well Kinivo gave me their answer to this problem to try out for myself: a hands-free device, the BTC450, so I did!

Throw a manual transmission into the mix and you’ve got yourself a conundrum. Even if you have a audio jack plugged into your cell it doesn’t help this situation. Phone in your lap, go around one sharp corner…and it’s lost in the dark inescapable caverns of quarters past between the seat and center console, to dwell with the long lost nickels and french fries of yesteryear.

We all know texting and driving is stupid, but what about playing music and answering calls on the road?

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