The Good The Parrot 3200 LS Color's crisp color display combined with its intuitive controls makes it easy to program by hand, while its great voice recognition system gives drivers the option of hands-free calling. We love its photo-tagging feature for phone book contacts.The Bad As with other Parrot devices, programming in voice tags for contacts can be time consuming, and there is no option for dialing individual numbers by voice.The Bottom Line The Parrot 3200 LS Color combines everything we like about previous Parrot devices-including a simple control interface and a great voice recognition system-with a striking color display. The result is an attractive, easy to use aftermarket hands-free calling device.Visit. DesignThe Parrot 3200 LS Color immediately announces its departure from the CK-series design with its square form factor, although it retains the basic control interface of the and with its two buttons and rotary dial. The square shape of the screen leads to increased functionality as it enables the device to display up to three lines of contacts at a time. The tactile rubberized dial on the 3200 LS Color is a useful means of accessing the device's menus, while the red and green buttons offer straightforward means of answering and hanging up calls. Compared with its predecessors, the 3200 LS Color is visually striking thanks to its 160x128-pixel TFT screen that can display up to 262,144 colors.

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The device makes the most of this display through its attractive menu icons, color schemes, and wallpapers as well as through its support for user-provided wallpaper and contact photos. As with the more basic Parrot car devices, the only other external component of the 3200 LS Color is its external microphone, which for our test we mounted behind our test car's rear view mirror. Features and performanceIf it ain't broke, don't fix it. That seems to be Parrot's philosophy when it comes to the feature sets and functionality of its in-car Bluetooth kits. Accordingly, the 3200 LS Color stands on the shoulders of the CK3000 Evolution and the CK3100 in terms of its core features.

As noted in our previous reviews, Parrot-approved dealers should install the system because of the requirement for car-specific ISO harnesses, which we found difficult to locate in the aftermarket. Pairing a phone to the 3200 LS Color is extremely straightforward: after setting the phone to search for the Parrot device, users navigate to the 'Pair with phone' option in the 3200 LS Color's Settings menu to retrieve a dedicated four-digit code which must then be entered into the phone to complete the process. With a phone connected, all contacts in the phonebook are automatically transferred to the 3200 LS Color (providing the phone has the requisite Bluetooth profile), making them available to dial via the device itself.

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The 3200 LS Color can hold up to 150 contacts. The pairing process also transfers the cell phone's call records to the Parrot device, making information on missed, outgoing, and incoming calls available at a glance.