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3.5 stars
"Bluetooth Poorly Implemented"
Pros: Bluetooth Headset & linking
Cons: Bluetooth Monorail, MP3 Poor Quality
Summary: Ok, this is concentrating on the Bluetooth Functionality.
Because Garmin choose the Parrot CK5000 chip instead of the Parrot CK5050 series chip, you won't be able to listen to your MP3s in stereo with the quality it deserves. You may find, like I and many others, that your music will sound hissy and distorted. It's so bad it gives me a headache. Being a motorcycle rider, the idea of hands-free operation with Bluetooth along with listening to my music with Bluetooth was appealing. However, the sound quality for MP3s does not cut it.
You CAN get stereo sound from the base output jack, but then you lose hands-free.
Firmware updates won't fix the issue.
It's notable to point out on the positive that linking a phone and a headset to the unit works great.
Also, the unit has tried to take me down one-way roads when it calculates routes.
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