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I use a visor speakerphone regularly in the car, so when I came across BlackBerry telling me about their new one, my ears perked up.  Blackberry introduced the VM-605 to compete with speakerphones on the market but does one thing more than most: transmits the caller’s voice over your FM radio.  That’s pretty neat.

This Bluetooth accessory works as you’d imagine: very simply.  The VM-605 has 13 hours of talk time, support for voice activated dialing, and announcements of callers in your phone’s memory.  The design is sleeky-thin and attractive looking; certainly nothing that will detract from your car’s appearance.

Presumably, you’d have your tunes rocking then when a call comes in, turn to that preset FM station to hear the caller through your car’s stereo system.  That, unfortunately is as close as I am going to get to a custom install.  Why the auto industry isn’t making cell phone integration into every car makes no sense to me.  Even the Microsoft Sync was cumbersome for me to use.  It’s almost 2010, let’s get this going.

This visor speakerphone is compatible with other phones that support Bluetooth as well.  BlackBerry devices must be running 4.2 or later software.

The $99 accessory is available straight through the BlackBerry store and looks to be available immediately.

Product Page: [BlackBerry]