The Freeway is probably the best sounding car speakerphone out there - but I would much rather have been able to play music successfully through the modest six-speaker system of my Honda Element. And while I could listen to music through the Freeway’s own big speaker, this was hardly a great solution either. The volume buttons act as tuners, changing the Freeway’s transmitting frequency in order to search for cleaner airwaves.īut the Freeway’s FM signal simply wasn’t powerful enough, and it was often difficult or impossible find a frequency that let me listen to static-free music, even in areas with little interference from radio stations. The unit is able to pick streamed music from a phone via Bluetooth, then transmit a short-range FM signal to be picked up by the same frequency on your car’s FM radio. I love listening to music while I’m driving (hell, sometimes it’s the only thing keeping me sane in heavy traffic), and this is where the Freeway dropped the ball. There was only one real issue with the Freeway. On the other end, the dual-microphone system did a decent job of conveying my voice, though once in a while friends complained they couldn’t hear me. Conversations and turn-by-turn GPS directions were both excellent - clear and easy to understand, even in my annoyingly noisy Honda Element. Jabra claims these speakers provide a “Virtual Surround Sound” the sound is extremely good, even if it didn’t actually sound like surround-sound. The large exterior also hides three big speakers. As long as the caller’s name is in your phone’s contact list, a female voice - the same pleasant, clear voice Jabra uses for its other devices - will announce the caller’s name and ask whether you want to answer the call or reject it. Freeway Pro offers more tools than Express: color and style management, text and image manipulation, graphics. The voice-activation system worked flawlessly, thanks no doubt to the unit’s dual microphones. Freeway felt familiar when I first opened it, but I couldn’t place ituntil I happened onto an old image I created back in college (back before the Internet tubes were open to the public) in Aldus Freehand. While initiating a call required hitting the call button, I had the option to take incoming calls simply by saying “answer” or “ignore,” without removing my hands from the steering wheel.
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