 
| About This Product The Venturi Mini easily connects your mobile phone and MP3 players to your car audio system. Streaming your mobile music to the car speakers, the Venturi Mini also takes and makes calls in amazing quality and even charges your devices on the move.
The Venturi Mini is a new and unique product combining Bluetooth Music streaming with Hands-Free calling and USB style charging. The integrated FM RDS Transmitter streams stereo audio through the in-car sound system for music playback and hands-free. The Venturi Mini requires ZERO INSTALL and simply connects to the cigarette lighter socket in the vehicle making it easily transportable. The integrated OLED display and high performance microphone enables high quality crystal clear hands-free with the received audio coming through the in car speakers. ....read more RRP £. Amazon Price £.  Rating Average Customer Rating
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Venturi MINI multifunction Car Kit FM Transmitter
March 25, 2010 By 10 Comments
4 out of 5
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venturi mini
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
This piece of car kit is fantastic, for less than £50 well worth it, plus it’s portable from car to car ,not like paying £200 for a permanant car kit .
Venturi Highway…
Rating:4 out of 5 stars
Excellent little piece of kit -simple even for the technophobe
Beware -you cannot pair two devices simultaneously and you must bear in mind the difficult locations car manufacturers provide for their 12v feeds -might even be worth getting an extension fitment
Otherwise audio fine and system very transportable from one car to another
Above expertation
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
Easy to instal, working perfect,dilevery in Holland in tree days.
Price ca. 40% below Dutch level.
Venturi mini
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
The venturi mini uses a radio frequency on the car stereo as its speakers so its very clear and can be as loud as you want, the microphone i’m told, is also very clear, yu can also use it to transmit your mp3 music through the channel so all round its fantastic.
Exceeds expectations
Rating:4 out of 5 stars
This product is great. Call clarity at the other end is surprisingly perfectly good even though the unit isn’t near the speaker’s mouth. The FM transmition is very clear, much better than a couple of other transmitters I’ve had and calls come through very clearly without the usual buzzing of the phone in the speakers. There is occasional radio interference and you will get this if you’re driving across regions which will probably require selecting another frequency. Most amazing is the convenience – it automatically docks with my phone when enter the car, even with phone in pocket. In the same time you can play and control music on your phone with two clicks, phone still in pocket. There’s no battery to charge and you just fling it into the glove box when you park in a public place – when you plug it back in, it’s automatically back in action in 10secs – nothing to do. If you pause a track when you leave, you can just resume when you return! RDS display is useful too (better than voice prompts). Drawbacks – 500mA USB might be low to charge a phone while also in use. Also couldn’t download my phonebook – just got a message saying ‘error’ and yet to hear back from email to customer services.
Does not work with iphone
Rating:1 out of 5 stars
The streaming music via bluetooth function does not work with a iphone 3g.
I also found the controls to be too fiddly.
Not as competent as I expected
Rating:3 out of 5 stars
Reading the write up I had expected it to use RDS to break into whatever was on the radio or music and give me my phone call. Instead I find that the radio has to be retuned to the chosen Venturi frequency before I can hear anything.. with my Espace this involves a fair amount of fiddling around as it has a read-out on the dash and a remote control. Like most others it won’t download the phone-book either. It does most other things competently and the download sound quality is fair.
Venturi Mini V. HTC TYTN 2
Rating:4 out of 5 stars
I bought the Venturi Mini mainly to reduce cables in the car and play audio via Bluetooth and FMrather than make phone calls which the Nokia CK-7W which I already had does rather well. The fact that the Venturi provides a USB Power Supply was very attractive since it will supply electricity to my Road Angel. Please bear in mind that any little problems I have run into may be down to the Venturi or the TYTN; I do not have the time to try another device with the Venturi! Firstly make sure the TYTN is not paired with any other device in the car by Bluetooth; if it is it may pair with the Venturi but it will not dock properly on subsequent occasions. If you would like it to dock and play music the best solution I have found is for the TYTN to have switched its screen off in power save mode! I think it docks every time like this. The trouble is, if you try to restore the screen manually on the TYTN to see the album art the music jumps. The best solution I have found is to press the white telephone button on the Venturi after docking and getting the music to play. Then press the green button indicating “Redial” as if to make a call and then the red as if to disconnect the call on the same unit. If you are lucky the screen will return to the media player on the TYTN after a short while and the music may not jump on occasion!
Other reviews that you might have read indicating that the strength of FM signal is a little weak are true. Nevertheless if you search your car radio you will find spaces of about 1.2 for 1.3 MHZ between stations and if you tune the Venturi appropriately the sound quality is perfectly acceptable. The new Parrot costs over twice as much and has no USB Power Supply but I am reading all the reviews!!
Mike Farnham.
P.S. Bluetooth TYTN 2 Venturi Mini synch sorted. This was not an issue with the Venturi. If you upgrade the TYTN 2 to Windows Mobile 6.1 all will be well. Warning, the HTC website advises data backup. I used Sprite but when restoring I got a “You have a new operating system and using this restore may corrupt it” message. Anyhow all my program files were OK, most importantly Tom Tom so if uyou go for this just drag and drop your important documents to your P.C. first. Also synch your contacts to Outlook as these go too!
Oh les beaux jours!
seems like a great product, but cant charge 1000ma ppc phones
Rating:3 out of 5 stars
This would be a great product, with the ability to charge your and listen to mp3/take calls at the same time. This would especially be useful for phones that have a single headphone/charge point. But if you connect a usb lead to the venturi, it will only charge 500ma phones not pocket pcs.
The best gadget ever!
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
I love this product!! I was really unsure about how good it would be – i thought that the description of what the Venturi does was over-the-top, but it really does deliver.
It is a doddle to install & very easy to connect to the phone via Bluetooth. The sound quality is very good when playing music – there is only a small amount of interference on the frequency i have selected, and this is mostly inaudible when mixed in with the normal sounds of driving… even more so when driving at high speed.
Taking & making phone calls is also very simple. The sound comes through the car speakers very clearly & i have been told by my friends that they can hear me just as clearly, even though the Venturi is nearer the passenger side than the driver’s side, due to the positioning of my 12v socket.
This is the first review i have ever written about something i have bought online. I am just so chuffed that i can now listen to my music collection whilst on the move i wanted to let everyone else know!!
BUY THIS GADGET!! You’ll love it.