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Parrot MKi9200

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Parrot MKi9200

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ncludes FREE Microphone windscreen covers and a iPod/iPhone Bluetooth adapter! The MKi9200 is a unique Bluetooth hands-free car kit which installs in every car. It combines the latest communication technologies with a full set of services dedicated to music. Once paired with your Bluetooth mobile phone, the MKi9200 enables you to establish in a few seconds, any phone conversations in your vehicle without needing to handle the telephone, even leaving it in your pocket. Connection with your mobile is made in a completely transparent way. The user-independent voice recognition and voice synthesis are now integrated in to the MKi9200, which dramatically ease the way of using them in every situation. And all the connectors for any type of music are provided with the MKi9200 hands-free kit: iPod, iPhone, iTouch, USB keys, USB MP3 players, Bluetooth Stereo devices, CD players, MiniDisc...

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Product Details

Product Length:	2.9 inches
Product Width:	7.5 inches
Product Height:	8.6 inches
Product Weight:	1.58 pounds
Package Length:	8.7 inches
Package Width:	7.9 inches
Package Height:	3.0 inches
Package Weight:	1.6 pounds
Average Customer Rating:	based on 41 reviews

Features

Bluetooth Hands Free
Streams audio
Easy Installation
iPhone
Parrot Car kit

Customer Reviews

Average Customer Review: 4.0

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Unfit for use with an IPod or IPhone Aug 31, 2010
Parrot represents in it's product write-up that the MKi9200 is compatible with the Iphone and the IPad. Beware! Since the operating system of the IPad and the Iphone was upgraded to OS 4.01, Parrot no longer supports the IPOD and IPhone with the MKi9200. Ever since OS 4.01 was installed on my IPod the MKi9200 intermittantly shuts down at random times when the IPod is connected. It is also impossible to scroll thru the music list without the MKIi9200 shutting down.

Parrot's response to this problem is that the issue is with Apple and they (Parrot) will not fix the issue of non compatibility. Owners of the Parrot are being told that the problem will not be fixed until OS 4.1 is released by Apple. Currently I have gone 6 months without being able to connect my Iphone or Ipad. Parrot will give no date as to when this issue will be fixed.

I will never buy anything from this company again.

very nice and super easy to install..... Aug 08, 2010
I was given the Mki9200 for my birthday and installed it just today. With the optional wiring harness this is quite literally a plug and play install. The install took all of 30 minutes but I should note that I have installed many car stereos. Having said that I think that if you are even remotely handy you can do this install yourself and save some serious money. The cost of the harness was around $35. That's a lot cheaper than an installer.

Out of the box the firmware was well out of date. Do yourself a favor and update this first thing after the install. Once that was done my phone paired immediately with the parrot and after just a few minutes the phone book had transferred as well. The voice dialer works brilliantly and the incoming call quality is very nice. Within just a few minutes I was playing Pandora over bluetooth.

The "instructions" are laughably useless for the install but thankfully they really aren't needed. They do come in handy for getting to know how to do some things. Oh on a similar note when the instructions say to "select" something you do that by clicking the dial on the remote. It doesn't actually tell you that anywhere in the book.

This is a very nice, relatively inexpensive, hands free kit. I like it enough that I plan on putting one in the wife's VW.

Car: 2007 Ford Focus ZX5
Phone: HTC Incredible (android 2.1)

Not perfect, but I'm happy. Aug 07, 2010
The Bluetooth with my Sanyo SCP-7500 works really well in my noisy 2006 Mustang GT. The phone menus, making and receiving calls, and the clarity of calls is very good. The iPod interface with my 120GB classic works fairly well, but I have a few gripes. I can only search through artists, albums, etc. by scrolling. And with over 8,500 songs and 600 CDs stored it takes a long time to find Sarah McLachlan, for example. It would be nice if I could search by letter, and put in "M" but you can't. Quite often I find it easier to disconnect my iPod, find what I'm looking for on the iPod itself, hit play, and then plug it back it. The menus and different buttons are sometimes very counter-intuitive, which makes it a little difficult to navigate - push the wrong button and you have to start all over again. Also, this unit completely shuts off and reboots about once a week at random. It's weird, but it does it fairly quickly (about 30 seconds or so.)

I wired this unit by soldering RCA plugs to the existing wiring and then plugging into my head unit's auxiliary input. Certainly not for the faint-at-heart DIY-er, but certainly doable if you have some knowledge of car stereo installation. Therefore, I have very good sound quality by allowing my head unit's DAC to do all the work. Different installations may result in different levels of satisfaction with the sound you get from this unit.

My biggest complaint with this product is the funky-looking wireless remote which attaches to your dash. I don't like it at all. It functions fairly well but I think it looks hideous. A lower profile remote that doesn't look so cheap and like an after-thought would be very welcome.

Overall though, it does most of what it advertises very well and I am happy at the moment. One day if something nicer comes along I may switch, but for now this seems like the best thing going.

Some problems, but it's the only device that can do what it does Jul 27, 2010
First thing is first: This device DOES NOT PLAY AAC (*.m4a) files.
On any media (USB, SD, etc), this will only play MP3 or WMA files. Period.
It does not count if to play such files you must first plug in an iPod! There are some misleading web pages out there listing such capability, so let's just start with this clarification.

I have had this unit for about a year now, and installed it on my VW Eos (a convertible). I installed it myself to ensure a quality installation as opposed to trusting some other place to do it. It has endured several problems, none of which Parrot customer support was able to help with. For instance, when I connect ANY hard drive device to this unit (be it ipod or usb hard drive), it runs for a while and then freezes completely. After months of Parrot insisting they could not recreate the problem and therefore the problem must be with my hardware, I determined that the problem was actually that the Parrot unit (at least, the one I got) could not quite supply the full amperage (power) needed to drive these devices - in other words, the Parrot unit power supply was under-performing (perhaps a replacement would have solved the problem?). So, I ended up just using the SD card to fix the problem since Parrot eventually stopped responding to me entirely.
Another problem I have had is still not quite solved: the remote is not well made and it's just not a good way to run this unit. First of all, Parrot refused to help me at all when my remote would only work intermittently. So, I took the thing apart and determined that the spring that holds the battery in place is very poorly designed, so it easily looses contact with the battery. I bent the battery springs to improve contact and really ensure contact lasts, and that REALLY helped a LOT. So, that's improved, but I still notice times when the unit is unresponsive to remote commands. I have determined this to be a problem with the software on the Parrot - it sometimes gets the processor so bogged down with playing music or answering a phone call that the remote functions are temporarily ignored. This is really frustrating when starting to play music if the volume is too loud (Parrot needs to offer a function to automatically reduce the volume after power down). So, you are stuck waiting for the processor to free-up before it will "listen" to the bluetooth remote and finally respond to volume or pause functions.
So, that being said, I think this would be a much better unit if a wired remote was offered, and if Parrot would actually attempt to resolve its customer support inquiries rather than just leave them dangling, hoping the customer will just go away.
But at the same time, I have to speak of the positives also, and will therefore end on a good note. This unit is the only thing out there that allows me to just jump in my car and have my phone hands-free with really good call quality while SIMULTANEOUSLY allowing me to have my entire music selection right there without having to plug in some other piece of hardware.
Also, the bluetooth streaming to my Droid phone works very well. I can even have the navigation on my phone come through, so that's really nice. However, I just turned that function off after a while because I found that having this on meant that the pause button would turn on/off music from my phone rather than from the SD card on the parrot unit itself. I have not spent any time trying to get the device to play sounds from my phone without playing music on the phone - I now just use it for phone calls only with the phone, and no other music or sound functions. But it's easy enough to change if I want to.
BTW, if you have this unit and are experiencing any problems, I highly recommend upgrading the firmware on the device to the latest version (go to Parrot website to learn how). Some of the earlier versions have been very buggy for me, but the latest version has been working best for me.

Works Effortlessly, Looks Good Jul 13, 2010
I got this for my 2007 Honda Civic EX w/ NAV and had it professionally installed. So far, the system works great; call quality is better than using a standalone bluetooth headset and the bluetooth music capabilities works effortlessly. The only negative thing was I had to buy a separate harness for the sound to broadcast on all my speakers, which was a little expensive for my car, but it has worked well so far. The system takes about 30 secs (which can sometimes feel like an eternity when I'm already on the phone and trying to switch the call over to the Parrot) to start up after you start your car, but automatically connects with my phone.