Full of features

This transmitter has great features such as on / off switch and a button that will allow you to find the clearest radio staion when plugged in. It will even send the song title and artist to the LED on the car radio. Nice feature. I also bought he car mount for my iPod which makes the controls easy to get at.

Gets me where I want to go

When I upgraded my handset to an O2 Stellar with Windows mobile I arranged to have this included in the upgrade bundle. On that deal it came with an in-car windscreen mount / gooseneck arm.

The co-pilot sat nav software seems to work very well. I cannot say that I have travelled extensively with it yet, but it has got me to exact addresses when necessary.

It allows you to enter a postcode and to save target addresses. It seems to cope well with deviations from the planned route. It has lots of Points Of Interest (POI) loaded.

It also warns of speed camera positions - it seems to be pre-loaded with all the favourite parking places of the mobile safety camera vans too i.e. as you pass under motorway bridges where they sometimes park it will remind you of the fact.

The software is provided on a 1GB memory card, I think I simply installed this and away we went. There's about 0.5Gb spare to use for other things on the provided card.

It also comes with a software DVD that you can load onto your PC -"CoPilot Central". The software installs maps for all the regions onto your PC. It took an absolute age to load onto my laptop (about 20 mins). You use this CoPilot Central software on your PC to keep your phone sat nav up-to-date; whenever you run the program it connects to the internet and checks for updates (possibly map updates, but also new POI, speed camera info, or voices). Then, when you connect your PDA/phone to the PC via USB the CoPilot Central software offers to update it for you.

A couple of points to note:
1. If you want maps of extra regions e.g. Mainland Europe - use the link within CoPilot Central to click-through and purchase the map upgrade - this route results in a cost of £38 for the map of Europe, whereas if you simply go to their website and buy it you'll pay £45 (like I did!!).

2. The standard supplied maps of 'UK+Ireland' are supplied on a 1GB memory card (actually a micro-SD, with adaptors for mini-SD and SD), if you add the maps of Europe you will need more than 1GB, so you'll need to install a card with sufficient capacity. NB you can choose to only transfer the sub-regions of Europe that you are interested in e.g. just France, or all except Scandinavia, or Iberia (excluding those last two still resulted in a file larger than 700MB).

When you purchase your map upgrade you will receive an unlock key by email. After you have used CoPilot Central to transfer the additional maps to your PDA/phone it will ask you for the unlock code before allowing you to use them.

The phone sat nav is very effective, intuitive in use, and seems to work very well.

By the way, it also has cycling and walking modes, and seemingly (as it's on your phone) you can use it for walking routes too!!

So far, so good - I'm happy with it.

We're headed for Lake Garda in Italy soon - I'll try to remember to update this review after that trip.

Brilliant - must have item

Very easy to install - plug it in and switch it on. Don't hesitate like we did - buy it today and go for it. You won't regret it. As for New Image Hi-Fi - their service was excellent and they provided best price aswell. All round excellence.

Happy parents

We purchased this just last week and are very pleased with sound, and quality of picture, also the leads just reach far enough for 7 seater cars so that you can have one screen between front seats for middle row viewing and one attached back or between middle row of seats for back row viewing.Without head phones on, us parents were able to enjoy conversation to each other whilst film in progress. Also we were pleased to see that there is an extra head phone socket on main player so 3 sets of head phones can be used, as we have 3 kids!bonus is that it can plug into your TV and be used as a portable DVD player, ideal for self catering hols.

waste of money

I would not buy this T305 trust me. I set this up and tried it in my car while it was parked on my drive. I could not here what the other person was saying at all. So I went to another store to try another T305 and it was the same. Very poor product. Save your money.

A2DP a requirement

If your phone does A2DP then this is a fimne piece of kit. Works really well with my Nokia N73 with version 4 firmware. I've now no need for any other portable music player.

sick

them speakers r sick no lie it took me 10 mins 2 link dem and nw der bangin

well done New Image and amazon

Purchased this item as a gift, so it as yet has not been installed. I would like to say though this is an excellant looking product and so reasonably priced for such a high end product from a brand leader such as Sony. Company was excellant to deal with being delivered in under 24 hours from time of order and even included a tracking service. I have looked for any negatives but the only thing I can say is that my brother may raise an eyebrow when he sees the pink box but You cant have everything, just nearly in this case.

Sony MEX BT5000 - Quality, Quality, Quality

As I said in the title, what a quality piece of equipment, looked at some pioneer bluetooth stereos, believe me they are not a patch on this item.

All the buttons feel great, the joystick feels solid. The sound quality is fantastic. The bluetooth phone quality is excellent (I use a Nokia 8800).

I bought this item as a result of the other review (which is much more detailed than mine) and he was spot on in all his comments.

My only negative would be the lack of a motorised face, but hey for the money who am I kidding.

If your thinking of getting one of these, don't hesitate, you'll not be disappointed.