I have the BMW Professional telephone. Why can?t I send SMS messages from it?

I can only recieve!

Do I have to set it up in some way, or is the feature not included.

 

Sending SMS messages usually takes some setup in your phone, using settings given to you by your cellular provider.

 

You can only send SMS using the Handset

 

jmcaiado is right!
You can only send SMS using the handset !!!

I was wondering about that too and after searching for it quit a while I RTM again and saw you can do it... So I searched again and found out it's only possible by using the handset. It took me just about one day...

 

Since we're on the topic of what can't be done, here are a few more bummers I've found with the CPT9000 (BMW branded Motorola V60i):

1) No way to take a "call waiting" and not disconnect the first call.

2) No way to force a pause in a dialing string (try it before contradicting me please!)

3) No horizontal "scrolling" of information that is too wide to fit the screen. (This is a complaint with Nav "information" as well.) If I enter a long number sequence, the recently added digits are off the screen and can't be seen.

 

This is really stupid. Picking up the handset to send SMS?!

What?s the idea of having i-drive when they forget to integrate these features into the system?

 

My bet is that they don't want people sending SMS via iDrive for the same reason we have an "accept" screen.

It would cause many distractions while driving, I'm sure.

Of course I'm talking about distractions for other people, not the forum members here, right?

 

I let my wife do the SMS?ng! I?m too focused on the HUD

 

There you go! Why not display the SMS messages in the HUD!

 

C'mon guys, SMS on HUD ?
Than we could display the map too.
Writing SMS while driving is a big distraction !
That's probably the reason why it's only possible on the handset.