http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/18/venturi-mini-uses-lots-of-rf-to-get-music-from-phone-to-car-ster/ Engadget Comments for Venturi Mini uses lots of RF to get music from phone to car stereo http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2009 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/18/venturi-mini-uses-lots-of-rf-to-get-music-from-phone-to-car-ster/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/18/venturi-mini-uses-lots-of-rf-to-get-music-from-phone-to-car-ster/Jan 28th 2008 1:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/18/venturi-mini-uses-lots-of-rf-to-get-music-from-phone-to-car-ster/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/18/venturi-mini-uses-lots-of-rf-to-get-music-from-phone-to-car-ster/Jan 18th 2008 1:03AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/18/venturi-mini-uses-lots-of-rf-to-get-music-from-phone-to-car-ster/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/18/venturi-mini-uses-lots-of-rf-to-get-music-from-phone-to-car-ster/
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If I was to take the decision, I'd shut them down...

Totally useless to those of us who like to listen to real electronic music (ie. Direct 2 Brain, dB Bass Killaz ) and not the crap they stream nowadays "because it is what the idiotic teenagers like"...

Ah, the distant past when you could hear some Lasgo and IIO on the radio.. those were the days]]>Jan 18th 2008 2:17AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/18/venturi-mini-uses-lots-of-rf-to-get-music-from-phone-to-car-ster/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/18/venturi-mini-uses-lots-of-rf-to-get-music-from-phone-to-car-ster/Jan 18th 2008 10:12AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/18/venturi-mini-uses-lots-of-rf-to-get-music-from-phone-to-car-ster/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/18/venturi-mini-uses-lots-of-rf-to-get-music-from-phone-to-car-ster/Jan 18th 2008 5:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/18/venturi-mini-uses-lots-of-rf-to-get-music-from-phone-to-car-ster/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/18/venturi-mini-uses-lots-of-rf-to-get-music-from-phone-to-car-ster/
There's no such thing as college radio in this country

But you are right on that, broadcasters are paying a high price for those airwaves nevertheless]]>Jan 18th 2008 7:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/18/venturi-mini-uses-lots-of-rf-to-get-music-from-phone-to-car-ster/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/18/venturi-mini-uses-lots-of-rf-to-get-music-from-phone-to-car-ster/Jan 18th 2008 3:04AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/18/venturi-mini-uses-lots-of-rf-to-get-music-from-phone-to-car-ster/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/18/venturi-mini-uses-lots-of-rf-to-get-music-from-phone-to-car-ster/Jan 18th 2008 2:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/18/venturi-mini-uses-lots-of-rf-to-get-music-from-phone-to-car-ster/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/18/venturi-mini-uses-lots-of-rf-to-get-music-from-phone-to-car-ster/
It sucked... it's the ONLY radio I've ever seen that doesn't get even number stations, all the other's I've seen/used can get anything

As far as I understand, there are countries that use even numbers and other countries that use odd numbers.. I read that on a stereo's manual I think, you had to set it up to get odd numbers or even numbers depending on your country]]>Jan 18th 2008 7:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/18/venturi-mini-uses-lots-of-rf-to-get-music-from-phone-to-car-ster/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/18/venturi-mini-uses-lots-of-rf-to-get-music-from-phone-to-car-ster/Jan 18th 2008 9:34AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/18/venturi-mini-uses-lots-of-rf-to-get-music-from-phone-to-car-ster/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/18/venturi-mini-uses-lots-of-rf-to-get-music-from-phone-to-car-ster/http://satechi.com/Bluetooth-Handsfree-Fm-Transmitter-for-Car/M/B000KJBNEI.htm

I've been enjoying my Media Server at home with a 3G networking streaming to my phone and wireless bluetooth to my car stereo via the satechi adaptor for about 3 months now. The media path...
Home Server > Cable Modem > 3G Cell Phone > Bluetooth > FM > Speakers :o and its pretty damn reliable during my commutes back and forth. The marvels of modern day technology and universality that allows for each one of these devices to work separately.

Home Brew > Dlink > Samsung (via ATT network) > Motorola > Infiniti. This is what technology needs to look like... interoperability!]]>Jan 18th 2008 10:22AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/18/venturi-mini-uses-lots-of-rf-to-get-music-from-phone-to-car-ster/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/18/venturi-mini-uses-lots-of-rf-to-get-music-from-phone-to-car-ster/Review | User Opinions | Specifications | Compare | Shop
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"great on paper if you have the right phone and you live in the right place"
by abadfish (see profile) - January 17, 2008

Pros: great features, good price

Cons: needs the right phone and conditions for FM to work

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I live in the SF Bay Area, FM bandwidth is heavily congested here. I am unable to use the FM transmitter feature because of all the noise on every FM frequency (whether or not its in use by another radio station). Anybody who lives with congested airwaves will suffer the same fate as me.

The Phonebook Download feature only works on certain phones. It does not work on my Motorola RAZR2 V9m.

Emailed Venturi's customer service on their web site about these issues. They essentially told me I'm SOL.

I then found out that the USB charger doesn't work for my phone either. I tried the USB charger and my phone displays "Unauthorized Charger".

I'll be returning this product since the features I wanted (and needed) to work don't work.

2 THUMBS DOWN!!!
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