Parrot's combo Bluetooth speakerphone and GPS receiver
Parrot CK3300
The product: Bluetooth specialist Parrot has shown several new and improved aftermarket car products at CES. Our favorite is the CK3300, a car kit that works with both your Bluetooth phone and your Bluetooth-equipped PDA. First, it's a Bluetooth speakerphone, which means you don't have to fumble with your handset when you want to make or receive a call. Its LCD and control buttons let you read incoming caller ID data and scroll through your phone's directory. It also has voice recognition for true hands-free calling. Second, it has a GPS receiver, and it will send location data via Bluetooth to your PDA; the company claims it will work with all PDA GPS software.

The product works with your car stereo speakers for optimum sound quality. Parrot also makes a range of Bluetooth car products, many of which are plug and play, such as the DriveBlue+, a $99 Bluetooth speakerphone that plugs into your cigarette lighter socket. It's improved this year with a more powerful speaker and a better microphone.

The price: $379; requires professional installation.

The prospects: Bluetooth is already big in Europe, though not so much here in the United States. But as more states join New York and New Jersey in prohibiting drivers from holding a phone while they drive, the market for accessories such as this will improve--that is, until all cars come with Bluetooth built in (currently only about two dozen U.S. models do).

By Rafe Needleman, editor, CNET Reviews