Hello friends, today we are going to learn how to built our hands free car kit. With this you will be able to have your own media player, your own gps navigator, and more important, your own hands free. You will be able to take calls while driving without exposing yourself to the danger that talking while driving is. And the best part is that almost everything you need is quite cheap and you may already have it lying inside your house. Save the car, that’s the expensive part.
So for this you will need the following.
1. Nokia Headset AD-54/HS-45. This is the one you get in the box of most Nseries handsets. This headset comes in two parts, a control with media buttons with mic and a pair or earphones. You don’t need the earphones part.
2. A 3.5mm jack extension, you get this in most electronic stores and quite cheap.
3. Your handset of choice, with 3.5mm jack output
4. Of course, a car with AUX input connection.
Installation is extremely easy and it consists of just connecting one end of the 3.5 jack to the AUX of the car and the other to the AD-54/HS-45 headset after disconnecting the earphone part of it. Then connect the control of the headset to your phone. You will have something like this
In this picture you can see on your right the jack extension connected to the AUX input and to the headset control which is looped around the gear lever to prevent it from moving away, finally the headset control is connected directly to the N97 mini.
The result: your may now play music from your phone and it will come from the car speakers, and more over you can have control of it with the headset buttons. Then if you receive a call you can answer it by pressing the button from the control, the music will pause and your call will be heard on the car speakers. If you remember well, there is a mic inside the headset control so you can talk back using it, you dont have to speak too loud, the mic is perfect to use at that distance. After finishing the call the music will automatically continue.
Same with the GPS, you can hear the navigation voice comming from your car speakers, and if you have music playing already, the navigation voice will cut your music a second just to give you directions and then continue. You got home? then just unplug your phone from the headset and your good to leave, an excellent solution that you should definately try. And if you don’t have a car with an AUX connection you may want to consider it now on your next purchase.
Anything for the sake of safe driving!
David Castro