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Originally Posted by porschemaniac
Parrot 3000 Evolution announces the name of the caller and is totally voice recognition based. It syncs the phone book. You obviously don't know your Parrots  |
I am pretty familiar with the Parrots-- see my review above. I am also pretty confident that the CTK3000 Evolution
does not sync with the phone book. (It has some funky features for some SonyEricsson phones, but not many folks use those phones in the US.) It is voice recognition driven-- it has to be, since it does not have any kind of visual interface. However, its voice control for dialing depends on pre-recorded voice tags (same as the BMW and most other systems). Also note that if you install the BMW integration kit with the CTK3000 Evolution, you will lose some of the other functions on the CTK3000's controller.
You are probably thinking about the CTK3100 or 3200, which have LCD screens and do sync with the phone's phonebook. The down sides to those two models is that there is no BMW integration kit available (as far as I know), and you have to mount the screen some place that you can access it on the dash area. If you have navigation in the car, none of the Parrot systems will integrate with BMW's cool navigation features.
Don't get me wrong-- I think that the Parrot kits are fantastic. If I were installing BT in any other car, the Parrot would be first on my list. However, the Parrot does have issues in a BMW with DSP, and it does fall far short of the integrated BMW system in terms of features and total integration.