However, I was not impressed with the quality of calls through the Minikit. Even though I could understand what I was hearing, voices coming into the car sounded splotchy and uneven. Plus, the speaker is at the back of the Minikit, so it routes voices toward the windshield glass.

On the other end, callers griped about my voice sounding far away, with background noise in the mix. One tester said that on a couple of calls I sounded as if I were talking from inside a dryer at a laundromat, with the annoying noise of whirring machines pervading the call.

One final note: If you're anything like me, you probably ensure that you leave nothing on view in your car when it's parked--and that means removing a , too. In the case of the Minikit, I found its installation approach to be inconvenient; it takes longer than I'd like to detach and reinstall every time. Novel as the Minikit is in theory, I recommend moving on and considering a regular portable Bluetooth car speakerphone.