UConnect (Mopar)

UPDATE:
Its been a week or so and I still don't know how to do anything but dial and answer calls

If I find the manual I'll put it in the bathroom, where I do most of my reading these days

OK, so now I've read the manual. You can do a voice phonebook, dial emergency calls by yelling "emergency" and some other stuff.

I originally ordered UConnect with my Dodge Magnum, but when I got impatient and hunted one down from dealer stock, UConnect wasn't on the thing; so I bought the Mopar add-on. Installation is not as clean as the DC-installed version, which is encapsulated entirely in a special rear-view mirror (whose auto-dimming feature I am not crazy about).

The Mopar UConnect instead uses an add-on panel, which I do not find particularly displeasing. I prefer a solid in-dash control, even when placed as it is. The unit is completely solid and does not feel tacked-on, even though it very likely is. Also tacked on is the microphone, which sits on the front lighting console. Again not as clean as a DC-install, but workable and well-made. It remains to be seen if high in-vehicle heat will melt the glue as it occasionally has in my previous hands-free systems

Sound does not come thru the stereo, but instead through a dedicated speaker stashed under-dash to the left of the steering wheel. Sound is fine so far as I can tell, although my resonator-muffled Flowmaster 40's dictate a slowdown to 65 mph while chatting.

Perhaps due to my inexperience with the unit, I have found the voice-dialing system not to always be accurate; getting numbers wrong when doing voice dialing. We'll see if its me or the system. Either way, using voice dialing is a gigantic step forward in safety over the hand-dialed systems I have used in the past. Talking hands-free is quite safe. Dialing the phone unit in the cradle is about as dangerous of a practice as you can imagine and I'm not sorry at all to leave that behind.

One neat experience: I tossed my mountain bike and my backpack into the back of the car and was driving home. The phone was in the backpack. It was real nice to hear that phone ring in the back and still be able to push a button on the dash and answer the call.

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