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3rd Honda · 11th August 2006, 17:42

1. Approx age of car, date collected. July 2006
2. Phone being used. Nokia 6310i
3. Network. Orange
4. Brief description of HFT issue. Poor voice operation, poor microphone pick up quality, OK received audio
5. Is it only the HFT or the total hands free operation. All voice operation functions are poor/useless at speed as well as HFT
6. Does the problem get better or worse when travelling at speed. Worse with noise level (speed, fan, mainly)
7. Does the quality of road surface affect the quality of call. Not sure, but I suspect so as part of general noise level
8. How do you get round the problem. Don't use voice control, rarely 'make' calls, keep received calls as short as possible and call back when stationary, when it works OK if quiet background noise level.

I am pretty convinced that the fundamantal problem is that the microphone pics up too much noise, and not enough 'voice'. This is partly because it is sited in a bad place, and possibly inadequately isolated accoustically from the body, hence picks up noise and vibration through its mounts as well as from the airborne cabin noise. In high noise environments, the microphone should be as close the the users mouth as reasonably possible.

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3rd Honda Triangular Exhaust Join Date: 24th July 2006 Location: Tewkesbury Posts: 414 Thanks: 0 Thanked 5 Times in 5 Posts iTrader: (0)	1. Approx age of car, date collected. July 2006 2. Phone being used. Nokia 6310i 3. Network. Orange 4. Brief description of HFT issue. Poor voice operation, poor microphone pick up quality, OK received audio 5. Is it only the HFT or the total hands free operation. All voice operation functions are poor/useless at speed as well as HFT 6. Does the problem get better or worse when travelling at speed. Worse with noise level (speed, fan, mainly) 7. Does the quality of road surface affect the quality of call. Not sure, but I suspect so as part of general noise level 8. How do you get round the problem. Don't use voice control, rarely 'make' calls, keep received calls as short as possible and call back when stationary, when it works OK if quiet background noise level. I am pretty convinced that the fundamantal problem is that the microphone pics up too much noise, and not enough 'voice'. This is partly because it is sited in a bad place, and possibly inadequately isolated accoustically from the body, hence picks up noise and vibration through its mounts as well as from the airborne cabin noise. In high noise environments, the microphone should be as close the the users mouth as reasonably possible.