Parrot Minikit Slim hands-free - tested

it’s only 13mm thick, but the latest visor-mounted phone hands-free kit from Parrot isn’t thin on features.

Everything from voice recognition and voice synthesis to phonebook synchronisation is included, while it offers more than 400 hours of standby time. So the Minikit Slim punches above its measly 83g weight.

The flat panel incorporates NXT speaker technology, and provides surprising volume.

We found the microphone’s noise-cancelling technology effective, too. Voice recognition was great, as was the voice synthesisation. And while it struggled with a couple of our phonebook entries, dialling numbers was easy.

Controls were intuitive and the mount was flexible enough to securely attach to the visors in all our test vehicles. The only gripe we had is that we couldn’t charge it while in use because the 12V lead didn’t stretch far enough in our cabin. With such great battery capacity, though, this shouldn’t be a problem.