Product Description

The missing link between your iPod and mobile phone Enjoy your tunes, make and take phone calls, or listen to the radio all on your iPod via the GEAR4 BluEye, using Bluetooth technology to provide the 3-in-1 functionality of seamless hands-free mobile phone to iPod connection plus a remote control and FM receiver for iPod. Take calls on your iPod With BluEye connected, when you have an incoming call on your paired mobile, your iPod's tunes automatically stop and a ring-tone cuts in. The in-coming number appears on your iPod's screen and you can accept or reject the call using the BluEye's buttons. BluEye will pick up your voice via its inbuilt microphone and you hear the callers voice through your headphones. so your mobile never needs to come out of your pocket. As an extra bonus, once the call is finished, your tunes will automatically cut back in! Make calls on your iPod If youve missed a call while listening to your iPod, simply use BluEyes buttons to scroll through your 9 most recently received calls and call them back with the touch of a button. Again, no need to go anywhere near your mobile! To make a call to any other number, simply dial the number from your mobile and the call will be transferred to BluEye so you can enjoy the call hands-free. (Subject to phone settings). Listen to the radio on your iPod As well as connecting your mobile phone and iPod, BluEye also acts as an FM receiver, allowing you to listen to your favourite radio stations on your iPod. Auto-scan through strong frequencies, store up to 15 favourite stations and then scroll through your stored frequencies all via the BluEye's buttons. Control your iPod remotely Finally, if you want to use your iPod for its original purpose, as we all do from time to time, BluEye is a remote control with play/pause, volume control and track skip functionality. Couldn't be easier.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #23809 in Consumer Electronics
• Brand: Gear 4
• Model: PG82
• Released on: 2006-12-11
• Dimensions: 4.41 pounds

Features

• Make and receive calls on your iPod
• Plug'n' Play with most Bluetooth enabled mobile ph
• Caller Number ID displayed on iPod screen
• Automatically pause and resume music for incoming
• Last 9 numbers redial from your iPod

Manufacturer's Description
Bluetooth hands free mobile connection with FM radio and remote control for any iPod

Ever missed a call because your iPod music was too loud? Fed up of fumbling around as you take out your iPod headphones and find your mobile phone? The BluEye" seamlessly connects with your mobile phone via Bluetooth to allow you to:

1) Take calls on your iPod

With BluEye connected, when you have an incoming call on your paired mobile, your iPod's tunes automatically stop and a ring-tone cuts in. The in-coming number appears on your iPod's screen and you can accept or reject the call using the BluEye's buttons. BluEye will pick up your voice via its inbuilt microphone and you hear the caller's voice through your headphones. so your mobile never needs to come out of your pocket. As an extra bonus, once the call is finished, your tunes will automatically cut back in!

2) Make calls on your iPod

If you've missed a call while listening to your iPod, simply use BluEye's buttons to scroll through your 9 most recently received calls and call them back with the touch of a button. Again, no need to go anywhere near your mobile! To make a call to any other number, simply dial the number from your mobile and the call will be transferred to BluEye so you can enjoy the call hands-free. (Subject to phone settings).

3) Listen to the radio on your iPod As well as connecting your mobile phone and iPod, BluEye also acts as an FM receiver, allowing you to listen to your favourite radio stations on your iPod. Auto-scan through strong frequencies, store up to 15 favourite stations and then scroll through your stored frequencies all via the BluEye's buttons

4) Control your iPod remotely

Finally, if you want to use your iPod for its original purpose, as we all do from time to time, BluEye is a remote control with play/pause, volume control and track skip functionality. Couldn't be easier.

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Customer Reviews

Never miss a call!
This is a really useful piece of kit.

This is essentially a remote control with bluetooth - the bluetooth enables the connecting of your phone (must be have bluetooth obviously) to your ipod. Not sure how far back the compatibility goes but I've got a 3rd Gen click wheel iPod (not colour) and it works fine.

When you have a call coming in it shows up on your ipod display and you hear your ring-tone through your headphones (or if on silent it simply goes quiet) - you can then press play on your remote to answer the call listening through your headphones. I have no idea where the microphone is, I assume it's in the remote, but even when that is as far from my face as the lead allows, people still seem to be able to hear me fine.

Key thing I like is that I can put my phone and ipod away in secure inside pockets or even my phone/ipod in a bag, because I can control both with my Blueye remote.

On top of that it is a really good quality remote control, much better than the cheap as chips one I had bought on-line earlier this year.

The only thing I would say is that if any of you have tried voice-dialing you'll know that it 'aint all that good, so it is the same story when trying to do it through this, although that's down to the phone's software not the Blueye.

Works with my Nokia Communicator
Great little device. I bought it at Hong Kong airport the other day. I like the features and the feel of the product. I've come across some problems. Using the clip makes me sometimes accidentally touch the buttons. The volume is not in synchronization with the iPod nano volume control. If I've listened thru my nano directly with low volume setting and then plug in the BluEye and move my earphones there, the volume is ofter very loud. These are little things and don't annoy too much after I have learnt to live with them.
The most annoying thing is the constant ticking or tapping sound in the background of my right earbud when I hook the earphones in the BluEye. If I listen to low volume sounds this clicking noise comes through clearly enough to disturb listening. With louder music it disappears in the background. I have Koss Sparkplugs. I tried to get advice on this problem from the www.myblu.biz website adverised in the user manual. However, this site seems to be still in test mode without much content. After googling I found the mavizen.com page where I logged my compaint again.
But even with this little disturbing noise, I still like the product and can recommend it to others who - like myself - sometimes miss their calls due to music playing or do not want to fumble with the controls of the iPod stored in a pocket. The radio also works quite well as does the Bluethooth connection.

Great idea but flawed
When i first saw this piece of kit it had me drooling. A remote control, FM radio tuner and bluetooth connection with your mobile allowing caller id on your iPod, voice dialling and much less fumbling around your pockets. All this works with great efficiency and all in all it is a great bundle of capabilities. However, the bluetooth is over efficient and while its connected to your phone it won't allow you to mess around with your phone ie. text or access menu features without constantly pausing the iPod - i suppose it just can't distinguish between general playing around and an attempt to make or receive calls. Maybe this won't bother you as much as it did me. One other minor gripe is the ability to 'use your own earphones'. I took this to be an option to either use your own or perhaps utilise an included set of earphones with the kit. There is no included earphones and unfortunately coupled with the standard iPod earphones, you have almost 1 metre of cable. You must either gather up the iPod phones cable and somehow keep it gathered thus allowing your remote to clip to your lapel or simply allow the cable to lie free and keep the remote in your pocket with the iPod which i think is defeating the purpose. Of course there's one more option - buy another set of earphones with a roughly 20 cm long cable. Good luck with that.