bCODA Coda One Review

By George Harding

It’s all too easy to pick up your phone and answer or make a call when you are driving. Doing so is illegal in many states, so what do you do? Coda One to the rescue!

Coda One is a hands-free device that clips to your car’s sun shade. With it, you can receive calls, make calls or listen to music.

The device is less than 6” long, 1 ½” wide and 1/2” thick, which makes it easy to handle. It fastens to your sun shade with a magnetic clip. When a call comes in, you get an announcement about the caller, either the name (if in your phone’s contact list and your phone supports the feature) or the number.

To answer the call, you press the multifunction button in the middle of the Coda One. Other than that, you need not use your hands at all. The call may be ended by pressing the multifunction button again, or just wait until the caller hangs up.

To make a call, unless your phone supports audio calling, you must initiate the call from your cell phone. After that, it’s hands-free.

You can listen to music on your cell phone if you wish.

The Coda One is Bluetooth enabled. Using this feature, you must “pair” the device with your cell phone. The process is almost automatic.  The process is similar to pairing with any Bluetooth device. Up to 8 phones may be paired with Coda One.

The specs are quite impressive: 20 hours talk time, 40 days standby time. It is full duplex with noise reduction and echo cancellation capability.

Coda One by bCODA             

 www.bcoda.com                      

Price about $100