AvantreeRoadtrip - Car Bluetooth Speaker & Wireless FM Transmitter Kit 2-in-1 for Streaming Cell Phone Audio to Car Speaker with Hands-Free 6W Speakers, Built-in Mic, and Long 22hr Playtime

I have a late model Ford Explore and this product is perfect!! I can now use my phone to connect to the vehicle sounds system. Pulse hands free calls can also be made.

Practically perfect in almost every way. I was urged to try this little goodie by an online community that is rarely wrong about such things. I needed a Bluetooth FM adapter that automatically connected to my phone when I got in the car. Seems pretty simple, right? Well not so much since everyone mostly makes the same cheap junk.Along comes the Roadtrip. It is simple and intuitive to set up. The phone is easy and the interface is dead simple.The only problem I had was an annoying RF interference that kind of ruined the experience for me when using it on FM. The hiss comes and goes as you are driving along and is just as annoying as all outdoors when you just want to listen to some music and relax on the way in to work. Thing is, it only hisses when nothing is plugged in to the USB port. That's weird, but it's a thing. So I keep a piece of an old cord plugged in when I'm not charging it and it magically gets very quiet. I can't explain it any better. If you're having trouble, try it.

Was easy to pair and handle.Sound (from the speakers) - 8/10 - I actually had to lower the volume because it was too loud.It is good enough for a call.Sound (from the microphone - per to the other side of the call) - 7/10 - depending on the location of the BT speaker.In the regular position (sun visor was both opened and closed) - I was sounded like I was "far" from the microphone, but my voice was recognizable.In the position of the sun visor blocking the side window - the other side of the call said that I was sounded clearer.I did not tested the Auto turning off and on yet - will know tomorrow when I test it in the morning.Overall - as a car speaker in that price - It's an awesome product.Update: the Auto Turning On feature works just fine.Update #2 (May 21st, 2025): Speaker works well and as far as i know, people can hear me well enough from their end.I found that the best position for the device to be (when you are not placing next to the window) is a small tilt of the visor towards you and aim the mic to you.

- Tested with iPhone 14 Pro- Pairs easily with phone, haven't tried its 2-phone capability. Very easy to set up an use.- Speakerphone totally rejects background sound even with car windows open and produces no voice dropouts even under severe background conditions. The parties I talk to are very thankful for this; they have long been annoyed by the background sound and dropouts with several other speakerphones I have used including the phone's built-in speakerphone and my Bluetooth 2-way speakerphone hearing aids. Part of the key to this good performance is probably the microphone being so near my mouth, since the unit is mounted on the car visor.- The built-in speaker is as good as an inexpensive small speaker is expected to be; being very near the driver's ears helps it to work without having to be turned up to distortion level.- The FM radio link is as good as FM radio links can be, i.e. there is some hiss and crackle but on the whole, with my fairly good quality car speakers, the speakerphone and music streaming sound over them is much better than the Roadtrip built-in speaker.- The button is very convenient for answering, rejecting, and ending calls and redialing, and for initiating Siri commands. But with the microphone so near my face I don't have to speak Siri very loud anyway, unless I have the speaker or car radio speakers playing loudly.- This is the only visor-mounted product I have found that both streams audio via Bluetooth and acts as a speakerphone, and it works very well.- Allows different phone apps to selectively use it, e.g. I can stream music over my hearing aids and use Roadtrip as my speakerphone.So do I have any complaints? Only some slight ones:- The unit is a little heavy, you might need to tighten the hinge on our visor to keep the visor from sagging, or add velcro to hold the visor up.- I am tall and was annoyed by the unit being mounted on the visor, particularly when getting in the car while wearing a hat. So I used velcro to mount it on the ceiling above the rear-view mirror. I have not tested its microphone pickup and background canceling performance in this configuration yet.

I had the previous version of this product and loved it. Specifically, I have a work phone and a personal phone and used the multipoint connect feature to use it with both phones at the same time. I figured that the new generation would work the same, and Avantree says that it does on their website. However, while I could pair both phones, I could not get both to connect at the same time. I contacted Avantree support, who said that the unit was defective and to exchange it. I did that, but had the same problem with the new one. When I contacted support a second time, they checked the lot number for my unit, said that batch doesn't have the multipoint feature, and that they don't make units that will connect two phones at the same time anymore. Yet they still advertise that feature on their website.