| | |  | iPhone Accessories | Home » » Parrot MKi9200 Advanced Color Display Bluetooth Hands-Free Music Kit | | | | | | | Description: | | The MKi system is a unique range of Bluetooth hands%2Dfree car kits which install in every car%2E It combines the latest communication technologies with a full set of services dedicated to music%2E Once paired with your Bluetooth mobile phone%2C the MKi enables you to establish in a few seconds any phone conversations in your vehicle without needing to handle the telephone%2C even leaving it in your pocket%2E Connection with your mobile is madein a completely transparent way%2E The user%2Dindependent voice recognition and voice synthesis are now integrated in all MKi car kits%2C which dramatically ease the way of using them in every situation%2E And all the connectors for any type of music are provided with each MKi hands%2Dfree kit%3A iPod%2C iPhone%2C iTouch%2C USB keys%2C USB MP3 players%2C Bluetooth Stereo devices%2C CD players%2C MiniDisc%85 | | | Features: | |
• Full system dedicated to keeping connected and entertained in your car
• 2.4-inch high-resolution TFT color screen lets you see who is calling
• Double microphone technology eliminates background and surrounding noise, including noise from inside the car
• Listen to your digital music in the car: compatible with all music sources, such as iPods, iPhones, and more
• Cutting-edge telephony functions like automatic phonebook synchronization, training-free multi-speaker voice recognition, and more
| | | Product Details: | | | Product Length:
| 2.9 inches | | Product Width:
| 7.5 inches | | Product Height:
| 8.6 inches | | Product Weight:
| 1.52 pounds | | Package Length:
| 8.74 inches | | Package Width:
| 7.56 inches | | Package Height:
| 3.15 inches | | Package Weight:
| 1.59 pounds | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 92 reviews |
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43 of 43 found the following review helpful:
 Self Installed MKi9200Dec 08, 2008
By Todd S. Harris
I finally installed a hard wired bluetooth hands free system in my car after using an earpiece for months/years. The MKi9200 is OUTSTANDING; I wish I had installed one a long time ago. The installation for my 2006 Trailblazer required a wiring harness from one of the Parrot vendors listed on their website which costs an extra $75. Regardless, the voice recognition feature is perfect and the radio mute feature works seamlessly with my factory stereo. The calls are crystal clear and everyone can hear me without any difficulties. I found the installation fairly easy and would recommend this product to anyone who is tired of charging, turning on/off, and finding, your blue tooth ear piece.
35 of 35 found the following review helpful:
Need bluetooth, like mp3s, no aux jack, look no further!!Apr 21, 2009
By Jethro
"electronic addict"
This is a very capable bluetooth system. Parrot has made a great product. If self-installing, it is strongly recommend that you utilize the harness recommended by the manufacturer on their website. This could have been a complicated install, but it was actually plug and play. The mki9200 was installed in a 2005 Honda Accord Hybrid with Navigation. Many diagnostic functions of the car are inextricably integrated with the NAV/stereo system, so I was definitely not going to take out the NAV. Furthermore, the Navigation/stereo work great. The problem that needed to be solved was getting a way to play mp3 without using an FM transmitter (FM transmitters are notorious for horrible sound/interference, etc.) and getting bluetooth in this vehicle without replacing the NAV/stereo system. This is where the Parrot Mki9200 answered all these needs. The hardest part of the install was getting to the back of the nav/stereo system, once there, unplugged the nav/stereo, plugged the harness (recommended by parrot) inbetween the unplugged connectors, like a plug sandwich if you will. This way you don't even use the multi-colored spaghetti bundle of wires from parrot, the harness replaces all of those. From the new harness, the middle of the new plug sandwich, it becomes very obvious where each plug then goes, such as to the parrot brain unit, to the display, inputs such as USB, line in, and an IPOD connector. In addition to those options, you can also utilize flash memory cards which plug into the back of the mini display unit. With the ever increasing size and decreasing price of flash memory, this makes this unit very capable of storing a great amount of music, or interfacing with a wide variety of devices, like ipods and such. Was planning to get my wife an ipod, however, the bluetooth audio through the parrot sounds fantastic using a Blackberry. (Make sure to go through the audio setting menu and try different settings, made a huge difference for me, went from mediocre sounding music to crystal clear. Also using the phone bluetooth mode, make sure to adjust the microphone setting if people are not hearing you clearly, I switched ours from automatic to +2db and it works great now. All in all this product has exceeded our expectations. If you do not have an aux jack in your car, need bluetooth, and like music, this system is for you. Keep in mind any music operated through the parrot is controlled via the parrot including the volume and other settings and through the parrot's own amplification which is surprisingly strong and crisp. This product gets the highest endorsement from me.
15 of 15 found the following review helpful:
Fantastic solutionApr 10, 2010
By J. Perry
This unit reminds me of an apple product at its best -- it does exactly what it is supposed to do, elegantly and intuitively.
About a year ago, I installed a USA-Spec solution to play my i-pod through my factory stereo. It had taken a while to find a hard-wired ipod solution which allowed continued use of satellite radio, which was very important. The USA-Spec did the job, but with a number of significant limitations. First, while it displayed track information through the factory stereo display, the limitations of that display (a single line of text) made it less than ideal. Second, I found the control of the ipod through the factory stereo awkward -- it was hard to scroll through artists, albums, tracks, etc., due to frequent lags in loading the information and automatically selecting the displayed menu selection after a few seconds. Basically, this product did provide a hard-wired ipod connection and retained my factory satellite, but the limitations on the interface left me not using it very much.
I stumbled on the Parrot looking for a bluetooth phone selection, and initially assumed it would be another add-on. Based upon other reviews here and elsewhere, though, I decided to give this model a try because it offered both bluetooth and ipod and other inputs for audio
Also based upon other reviews, I purchased both the honda harness and the installcard installation. The parrot arrived next day (thanks, Prime!) from Amazon, the harness second day from Crutchfield. The installcard worked well -- first an email with information about the card, the online selection of installer and preferred date, then a call from installcard to confirm the appointment.
The installation went fine with one fairly significant exception. When I got in the car at the installer's, everything seemed to work except the microphone. I didn't have time to get the installer to open up the stereo and figure out the problem and took it home. Once I got it home, I opened the stereo (thanks to the information sent by Crutchfield), and realized the microphone problem was an easy one to fix -- the installer hadn't pushed the microphone jack all the way into the port. There is a sort of keyhole in the port and I just lined the jack up with it, inserted all the way, and twisted a quarter turn. With that, the microphone worked like magic.
My basic impressions, after a week with the device:
(1) it takes probably twenty seconds to boot, which is not a problem.
(2) it found and synced with my motorola droid automatically and perfectly.
(3) the voice recognition is perfect -- i can mumble at times and it hasn't missed a voice command yet.
(4) the steering wheel control and video display work perfectly and intuitively. If you have an ipod and can navigate it, you can navigate with this device.
(5) I like that the parrot audibly states where you are when navigating through the menu.
(6) The ipod interface works great -- again, just like an ipod, complete with album art displayed on the screen.
(7) The first two days, I had problems with the device periodically rebooting for no apparent reason. When I updated the firmware (also easy to do), that problem has not recurred.
(8) The integration with the stereo is great -- when you place or receive a call, it automatically cuts out the audio (whether through the factory stereo or the parrot itself). When the call ends, it goes back to the audio.
(9) I have seen some complaints with sound quality in a couple of reviews, and I can't disagree more. While initially had a problem with it not playing audio in all speakers, the firmware update solved that as well. Any audio hardwired (through the 30 pin ipod connection, or the mini jack) is perfect. The bluetooth streaming from the droid sounds good too -- not quite up to the quality of a hard-wired connection, but very close).
A note for Honda users -- after ordering this device but before it arrived, I began to worry about whether I would be able to continue to use the factory satellite. That concern was unfounded as factory stero seems to retain all of its functions. My non-technical perception of this device is that when in use it simply mutes the output from the factory stereo to the speakers, essentially taking over the stereo. When not it use, the parrot simply sits silently in the background, allowing the factory stereo to work as usual.
If you hadn't guessed, I recommend this device whole-heartedly. It would be worth the price for either its handling of the ipod or its bluetooth phone connection. The fact that it does both as nearly perfectly as I can imagine is amazing.
34 of 40 found the following review helpful:
 Probably not for audiophilesApr 18, 2009
By Chris F. Stubbs
I have had the Parrot installed in my '95 Grand Cherokee for a couple days now, and I will give my impressions thus far. FYI, I use it with an iPhone 3G.
First, it is definitely pretty to look at. Very nice color screen, very slick wireless remote. Navigating the menus is simple and intuitive. The phone functionality seems to work well. People report being able to hear me clearly, despite my notoriously noisey vehicle. Likewise, I can hear them clearly through all four speakers. Voices seem a little muffled, but nothing terrible. One thing that annoys me is the lack of the ability to save "favorite" numbers, so they can be dialed directly without having to scroll through the entire phonebook. I'm sure Parrot's response to this complaint would be to use the voice dial feature, but this really doesn't work. I have yet to have it correctly identify the person I want to call, and even worse it dials who it THOUGHT you said immediately, with no confirmation required from you. After a little bit trying other name combinations ("Call Kristen," "Kristen," "Kristen Mobile," etc) I gave up on this feature.
The other reason I bought this device was it's ability to listen to music on an iPhone/iPod, and control said device directly. When you plug in your iPhone, you have a very nice and easy interface, with display of album art. Unfortunately, the music doesn't really sound that great. I would put it somewhere between the quality of an FM modulator and a direct line input. The Parrot DOES also have a line input (for use with any MP3 player) and the iPhone sounds much better when connected that way. However, there is no iPhone control on the Parrot when you listen like this. I have the Parrot set up to bypass it's internal amplifier (I have my own high-end amplifiers). I have to imagine the music would sound worse if the Parrot was amplifying the music on it's own. I have not yet tried Bluetooth streaming of music from the iPhone, since the iPhone doesn't yet have stereo streaming capability. Again, I would presume that the music will sound worse when streaming.
Not a bad product over all, but I am definitely disappointed in the music quality. It will probably be okay for the average user, but if you have an ear for audio and/or have a high-end stereo setup in your vehicle, you will likely be disappointed as well.
11 of 11 found the following review helpful:
Has real potential, but a pain in some waysFeb 08, 2009
By Darcy Burner
This unit is currently unique in the marketplace in dealing with the need for both a handsfree kit and a way to add music sources to your car stereo system. It's not for everyone - if your car stereo already has support for an iPod, for instance, this may be overkill - but for my no-aux-jack car it's great.
The pros:
* The sound quality for making phone calls is better than any handsfree kit I've encountered, both listening in the car and through the microphone to the other end. Better, in fact, than most Bluetooth headsets - which is saying a lot for a car kit.
* It's terrific to be able to play my iPod in my Ford Escape Hybrid without using an FM transmitter. The sound quality is fantastic, and it even charges the thing!
* The screen is great; bright, easy-to-read, and displays the relevant information in ways that I find fairly easy to interact with.
The cons:
* It was a pain to install in my Escape Hybrid. That's more Ford's fault than Parrot's - the nav system in the Escape Hybrid uses non-standard connectors, so I had to do a fair amount of splicing - but Parrot's documentation left a bit to be desired. On the other hand, I suspect for the 99% of cars for which you can get a wiring harness, this would be dramatically easier.
* There's a lot of important information in the manual, and Parrot doesn't include the manual in the box. You have to go to their website ([...]) to get the information you need -- including how to pair the remote, which they don't even mention is necessary in the materials in the box. I spent about an hour convinced that my remote was DOA before I figured out how to pair it.
* The unit does not always respond right away to the remote; there is sometimes a bit of a pause.
* Despite upgrading the firmware, it still seems a little shaky about working correctly with my iPod Touch. For example, it will sometimes play something entirely unrelated to what I've just selected.
Overall, I don't at all regret the purchase (or installation time), but I'm hoping that Parrot will continue to upgrade the internal software to improve performance, especially with the iPod Touch.
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