Kyocera Koi KX2
Portable hands-free kit ?
Anyone have one?
I am thinking of getting a KX2 for my wife and one of her requirements is a hands-free kit. The KX2 doc says:
"You can use voice commands to make a phone call or to answer the phone only if your phone is connected to a professionally installed Kyocera hands-free car kit".
I see the hard-wired kit, but want to use the cheaper portable kit and I am trying to find out of this offers the same functionality.
On a lot of LG phones, for example, you train the phone with "yes" and "no" and when you get an incoming call on the portable car kit it says "Incoming call, answer?" and you can do so just by saying "yes". This is the same as the KX2 manual says will work with the pro kit - and it even inserts the callers name (...
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I am thinking of getting a KX2 for my wife and one of her requirements is a hands-free kit. The KX2 doc says:
"You can use voice commands to make a phone call or to answer the phone only if your phone is connected to a professionally installed Kyocera hands-free car kit".
I see the hard-wired kit, but want to use the cheaper portable kit and I am trying to find out of this offers the same functionality.
On a lot of LG phones, for example, you train the phone with "yes" and "no" and when you get an incoming call on the portable car kit it says "Incoming call, answer?" and you can do so just by saying "yes". This is the same as the KX2 manual says will work with the pro kit - and it even inserts the callers name (...
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It works with the regular headset, too. Incoming calls can be answered with Yes or No, as long as you enable the option in the menues somewhere.
I think what the manual may be wrong; one option that may require the "professional" kit is phone wake-up, as I was never able to get it to work otherwise.
I think what the manual may be wrong; one option that may require the "professional" kit is phone wake-up, as I was never able to get it to work otherwise.
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As the first reply said, It works hands free with just the headset. A simple yes or no will answer the incoming call. When the other person hangs up it will also disconnect.
As for making a hands free call, the phone must also be hooked to the car charger. After speaking wake up and then repeating wake up, it will respond for you to say a name or say dial. It's very simple.
Just follow the direction it gives in the book (page 56&57) treating the headset and car charger as your (professional installed Kyocera hands-free kit.) YOU DO NOT NEED TO PURCHASE IT.
I have been using mine that way for over a month now. Works great.
As for making a hands free call, the phone must also be hooked to the car charger. After speaking wake up and then repeating wake up, it will respond for you to say a name or say dial. It's very simple.
Just follow the direction it gives in the book (page 56&57) treating the headset and car charger as your (professional installed Kyocera hands-free kit.) YOU DO NOT NEED TO PURCHASE IT.
I have been using mine that way for over a month now. Works great.
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When I said page 56 & 57 that is if you are getting the phone through Verizon. If you are using another carrier just look under Using voice features with hands-free car kits.
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Thanks both of you for the replies!
My wife wants the portable handsfee kit (with the speaker and the mike she can hang over the sunvisor). I can't get her to use a headset.
I have always had a "Real" handsfree kit for her phones and she like it that way. She has been using my old Motorola T720 (I got the Kyocera 7135 1 1/2 years ago) and before that the same kit with a digital Startac. If I had gone with the V265 (screen = yuck, camera = yuck) or the V710 (crippled bluetooth = she does not need anyway, $100 more for phone) she could keep the same kit. I wanted the VX6100 for her, but LG does not make a handsfree car kit for it - and could not promise me they ever would. I limited the choices to tri-band phones for the analog backup...
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My wife wants the portable handsfee kit (with the speaker and the mike she can hang over the sunvisor). I can't get her to use a headset.
I have always had a "Real" handsfree kit for her phones and she like it that way. She has been using my old Motorola T720 (I got the Kyocera 7135 1 1/2 years ago) and before that the same kit with a digital Startac. If I had gone with the V265 (screen = yuck, camera = yuck) or the V710 (crippled bluetooth = she does not need anyway, $100 more for phone) she could keep the same kit. I wanted the VX6100 for her, but LG does not make a handsfree car kit for it - and could not promise me they ever would. I limited the choices to tri-band phones for the analog backup...
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"If she does not want to use "wake up" "wake up" is there a button on the phone to hit to make it go into voice recognition mode?"
Yes, you just press and hold the outside toggle shuttle in and it will ask you to say a name or say dial.
As for the Wake up mode, that only works when connected to the hands-free car kit or to both a headset and an outside power source. It must also be enabled through the settings.
Yes, you just press and hold the outside toggle shuttle in and it will ask you to say a name or say dial.
As for the Wake up mode, that only works when connected to the hands-free car kit or to both a headset and an outside power source. It must also be enabled through the settings.
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I got the kit in at the office first thing this morning (priority overnight for free, as promised). THIS IS A NICE KIT!
I met my wife for lunch and hooked it up. The power cord unwinds from the speaker and is pretty long (5-6'?). The mic is a separate one with a mini-mono plug on it - the SAME plug as her old Motorola kit uses, so we just kept the same mic. Must be the same impedance, since it sounded super. In fact, she commented that it sounded much better than the Moto kit - and talking to her through my car phone (BMW digital Startac wired into the car w/BMW OEM stuff) it did sound a lot better (even using the same mic).
I had her train "wake up", "yes", and "no" but I think I forgot to turn on the wake up in the menus, since I co...
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I met my wife for lunch and hooked it up. The power cord unwinds from the speaker and is pretty long (5-6'?). The mic is a separate one with a mini-mono plug on it - the SAME plug as her old Motorola kit uses, so we just kept the same mic. Must be the same impedance, since it sounded super. In fact, she commented that it sounded much better than the Moto kit - and talking to her through my car phone (BMW digital Startac wired into the car w/BMW OEM stuff) it did sound a lot better (even using the same mic).
I had her train "wake up", "yes", and "no" but I think I forgot to turn on the wake up in the menus, since I co...
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