Thread: Any Bluetooth experts on here?

Updates for those who've followed this.

The BT handsfree kit in question is the Alpine KCE 350 BT. I did a Google about this unit and found a very mixed bag of comments varying from 'waste of money' through to ' highly reccomended'.
The bad comments all had the same symptoms as me....poor sound quality and bad echo when in use.

I had no positive feedback with the main Alpine dealer in Dubai so I then went to a smaller distributor in neigboring Sharjah. He had the previous older model of the BT unit in stock...the KCE 300 BT.
Unfortunatly this was also more expensive than the newer one but the showroom manager was very keen to help and we installed the unit outside in the car park.
We tested the new unit along with 4 other brands of mobile phone...including my SONIM XP3 Quest and I am delighted to report that the sound quality is now right up there where I expected it to be.
Over the weekend I received a number of calls from land lines and mobiles, & I was able to hold a normal telephone conversation with all of them.

What did I learn? ...nothing.... (apart from the Alpine dealer in Dubai won't get my business in future)
I also know that next time... I'll have any gadjets like this installed and tested before I hand over my money.

Good to hear you got it working.

Just a pity you had to buy the 350 first to find out the problem.

Happy Handsfree then.