GarryF

Hi there, I'm going to be taking delivery of an E60 in April in the UK and need to get a bluetooth phone before then, looking in the brochure there are 3 choices.

Nokia 6310i
http://www.nokia.co.uk/nokia/0,,18176,00.html
Ericsson T39
http://www.ericsson.com/press/t39-1.html
Siemens S55
https://communication-market.siemens.de/myM...pkPrdGrpID=3401

I currently have an ageing Nokia 6210 so I know what I'm getting with a 6310i but it starting to look a bit old now. The T39 doesn't do it for me, the S55 looks nice enough though.

I've read about some other bluetooth phones working with the car, but BMW are only making snap in adaptors for the above three at the moment ?

speuk

Garry,

I use a Nokia 6310 and a 6310i with mine both work very well with the bluetooth. The snap in adapter for the Nokia has not been released by BMW UK yet but is I understand due shortly. The adapters for the Siemens and Sony Ericson have just become available within the last week or so.

SPE

paasan

The S55 and the snap-in adapter works superbly.

However, if you use the phone stand-alone, the interface seems slightly deranged/old-fashion. However the camera (bundled with some models - and inludes a flash) is great - and writing SMSs on the handset itself is very easy. Sound quality and so on is great when using the mic mounted to the ceiling.


-paasan

E60-530d-London

Sony Ericsson T610 also works just fine - I also have the snap-in adaptor (yours for ?55). Provides the phone with power & external antenna.

GarryF

Thanks for the replies, I gave a friend at the dealers a call and he faxed over a memo regarding which phones, it's dated 25/11/03, here's the info

Phone Snap In Phone Book Comments
Transfer
6310, 6310i Due Auto, sim and phone Fully Compatible
8910, 8910i Not avail Auto, sim and phone Fully compat with 3.75 or later
S55 Avail Auto, sim only Fully Compatible
T39 Avail Manual, sim and phone Fully Compatible
T68i Avail Auto, sim only Fully Compat with R8A or later
T610 Avail No info No info
V600 Planned No info No info


E60-530d-London, do you know if the T610 transfers phone and sim or sim only ? I think that it looks like the best pick for me at the moment, 8910 prices seem quite high.

GarryF

hmm, i tabled all the stuff above but spaces all got removed, oh well, I'm sure you'll figure it out

E60-530d-London

Hi Garry

The T610 transfers all contacts both from phone & SIM memory. I have around 200 contacts in the phone which came from my Outlook address book and these are now all in the car.

The only think I haven't tried out is voice activated dialling. As mentioned in a previous post on this subject, using I-Drive is so easy I haven't felt the need to bother with voice activation.

Hope that helps....

GarryF

Yeah I think it does, gonna go for the T610, looks like a nice phone and can probably mean I can rid of my palm V too.

E60-530d-London

Garry

I thought the T610 was the pick of the bunch too. I had to sell on my previous phone - a Sony Ericsson P800 - as it refused to work with the BMW Bluetooth. The P800 was bought as a substitute for my IPAQ (like you- I just wanted the one device). Turns out that the T610 manages contacts & calendar just as well even on a smaller display. You won't be disappointed. Frankly, I can do without carrying around a house brick in my pocket!

GarryF

That sounds cool, it would be nice if it would sync with palm desktop, I never did like outlook.