2011 Prius III w/o Nav Questions

1. Yes. Yes.
2. No
3. No
4. Yes
5. No
6. No.

 

you can plug it into the aux jack for sound - Pandora et al...

 

Sure to most of the stuff, I use my Droid phone, and have tried several BlueTooth set ups. In general I have a simple wireless stick on the visor unit, about $35. I like it because it is always on, tells me the battery level and automatically syncs to my phone. This one only syncs to one phone but some will sync to two. When calls come in it's a simple one touch and talk.

Now, I have a much fancier unit that works with BlueTooth then "it" is plugged into the Auxillary so I can use my (included) GPS or music and the phone. Prior, I had one unit that plugged into the power socket and then used "FM" and tuned in per radio, however, using the front power socket it was a tad too far from the antenna and had "some" interference, not much really but it annoyed me.

I use this system (plug-in not FM) usually only for trips just because it has a little bit of set-up (like 30 whole seconds) but the sound is better but it is seamless with GPS or music. Still the visor unit is just a no brainer, as that is a perfect discription of me that is what I use on a day to day basis. I just get in the car and the visor unit tells me battery level and sync to my phone with no effort or action on my part. Then I just listen to normal radio or CD but I do have to mute the sound when a call comes in. I like my CD as I set it up with MP3 songs and one disc holds like 6 hours of tunes.

Right off hand I can't think of the brand names of the two units but I can check that out.

 

So is there really any difference (from user experience) in a Prius III 2011 versus a Prius II 2011 assuming you are using an iPhone (4S) as a music device? I was really hoping that by going to the III (w/out Nav though) w/bluetooth over the II I could get good hands free on the phone. I know you need the Nav to get the usb port. I drive a lot of miles every day and its really not feasible to fiddle with my phone all the time to either manage an audiobook or pandora.