Reviews for Jabra Freeway Bluetooth Speakerphone

I really like this device. I bought an older car with no fancy Bluetooth connections to the audio equipment so this works just fine but having a Scottish accent doesn't go too well with the device. I've found myself having to put on a fake American accent to get it to play music from my iPhone as any word starting with P seems to take it straight to Pair Device. Other than that very good!

I am not sure why so many people have provided negative reviews. I started using this product yesterday. It is the best bluetooth speaker I have ever used (and I have had many of them). I am using with both the Iphone 4S and 5. Great sound, clear reception, very intuitive, pairs nicely. Excellent product so far.

This product is garbage. I've paired this device with my iPhone 5, and have had nothing but frustration. The speaker is way too loud, can't be reduced to an acceptable volume. Voice dial launches music. Device buttons are not intuitive at all, voice control slow and unresponsive. FM transmitter noisy on every channel. Just a piece of junk that's going back.

Lots of issues make this device too frustrating. First, auto connect and disconnect, an important feature, but this device does not auto disconnect well, it takes 15 minutes after you leave your car (meaning sound, email and text alerts, music, even the clicks as you type your passwords, come out in your car rather than on your phone for that next quarter hour). Some of those sounds do that because of the A2DP feature, which there is no way to turn off. The FM transmitter does not work well, very noisy. The voice recognition is one of the worst I have ever tried (I have a normal clear voice with no accent), often causing the device to play music or do things I did not request, and I often have to repeat voice commands 3-5 times, and push buttons to cancel the misinterpretations. The voice prompts are a mix of both male and female, which is annoying. Voice volume to callers was fine, but voice quality was not great, and the mic pickup seems very dependant on device position. The speaker/sound quality is the best I've heard, but the other aspects of the device make it far too frustrating to use. I also had to exchange the first unit I got because of it being defective (had a constant high pitch tone, and a hiss, all the time the device was active). I chose another mfrs device that is far superior in every way, made by M.

The speakerphone works fine. The sound quality through its on speakers is good and the mic is pretty good for a speakerphone. It lasts about a week in my car between charges and can be recharged from the cigarette lighter socket in your car.

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Voice Assist was dialed without my consent. This ended up with a long distance charge of 180 minutes and about $60 as it dialed (416) 800-0414 without my knowledge. Took 15 minutes talking to tech support at Voice Assist and they told me nothing they can do about it, its Jabra's problem. Jabra apparently has a firmware upgrade that you can do to disable the Voice Assist.

Very good quality sound, bought this for my boyfriend and incoming calls sound amazing. He used to have a Blue Ant that died, the call quality was really bad and they could barely hear him on the other line. The whole free 1 yr free subscription is a waste. Everytime you use it you dial their phone number (long distance - they only have 3 numbers to call in Canada, none are toll free).. there's no app for it so you have to sync your contacts online to the website and it doesn't sync numbers labeled as "iPhone" only "Home" & "Work". As far as it reading texts to you.. voice assist will only read them if they come from a voice assist subscriber... so don't count on the free voice assist service! The manual is very brief but you can find the long version online. One thing I had problems with was setting up the FM transmitter.. it was set on 88.1 and didn't know how to change it .. but turns out you just do volume up and down (duh moment - but wasn't in the basic instructions).. Overall it's good great call quality which I'm happy with so I give it a 4/5 stars... Again.. The voice assist service is a JOKE!

I have just bought one of these units on the promise that, "The sophisticated Voice Control system allows you to make or take calls just by using your voice." - (quote from Apple website). Only to find when I unpacked it that you do, in fact, HAVE TO PRESS THE VOICE BUTTON TO MAKE A CALL!

That, of course, means taking your eyes off the road to look at the unit, to locate the button, to make a call.

This is contrary to the promise on the Apple website and the promise of 'hands free' operation.

I bougth a huge number of fm transmitters and bluetooths devices and none ever really worked very well. The Jabra Freeway works really well and the sound of the music when you put the Fm transmitter on is amazing, it sound just like radio.

This device works great right out of the box in the quiet of your home, but get it in a car on the highway......forget about it! It rarely was able to accept a command and when it finally did it usually got it wrong. I am driving a Mercury Sable which is a relatively quiet car, but the background noise caused many problems for this device. Instead of helping make my drive safer it made it more hazardous with the distraction of trying to coax this thing to work.

Jabra gets confused when 2 devices are paired. Have to say phone commands then use call the person as if you are holding the home button. FM transmitter is week, device drops Bluetooth and is just lame, not dependable at all