Car blue tooth receiver (not head unit) for A2DP?

lokiju

Lifer
May 29, 2003
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I'm wondering if there's something out there that can just receive a A2DP blue tooth stream and then give the option to output from that receiver (again not a receiver in the sense of a head unit) to a standard aux input jack (like a 1/8" headphone jack) for my stock input in my car?

Would free me up from having to run a cable up from my center console where my aux input jack is in my car all the way up to my dash where I mount my Droid in it's dock.

Anyone ever see something like this?

It's kind of heard to search since all I get is Blue tooth enabled head units.

EDIT: I guess as I think about it, one issue would be, how would I take calls with my blue tooth head set if it was actively paired via blue tooth to a device just for streaming music?

I'm assuming it's probably not possible to pair with more than one device at a time from a Droid, right?

EDIT2: I may have found a solution but am still not sure how two get around the answering calls issue while paired with this.

http://www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.8422

EDIT3: Actually scratch that, that's has a terrible design flaw of using the audio out port as the charging port also, so I couldn't charge and use at the same time.

Damn :(
 
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DivideBYZero

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May 18, 2001
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BlackBerry do the BT Stereo Gateway. It's an A2DP device with 3.5mm jack output to your AUX. Takes microUSB power, too.

EDIT: See your issue with twin BT devices. You can get BT Visor mount systems that do this. The BB version will stream A2DP music from the device AND allow you to take calls. The drawback is it uses FM to get the sound to your headunit so sound quality will be lower than native BT.
 
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