SMS, MMS, 3G & Bluetooth

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Dec 2, 2004 | 01:13 PM

BangleBox_530d

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My Ride: E60 530d Sport - Carbon Black, Black Dakota Leather, Media Pack (satnav, bluetooth, CD changer), heated font seats, through load

The only "built in" phone that I've seen before is the Alfa Romeo system. Nav, phone, radio, etc on a colour LCD screen. SMS texting works well. Tells you when one arrives, and lets you send them too.

I expected similar with an E60. Sadly, it's not an option. And I'm using a Nokia 6310i, which seems to be about as "BMW compatible" as you can get.

Is this a problem with Bluetooth profiles (impossible to do). Is it the BMW Bluetooth code. Or the Nokia phone.

Seems very obvious that mating a bluetooth phone with iDrive is an ideal platform for stuff like texting. And even multimedia messaging, dare I ask.

It would seem that 3G and video streaming is too "21st Century" for BMW.

Digital TV, DVD, but no high-tech phone stuff.

Dec 2, 2004 | 01:17 PM

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The blue tooth was intergrated into the E60 by MOTOROLA so their phone should work the best with the car.

Dec 2, 2004 | 01:17 PM

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My Ride: [i][b][u]Since 19 august 2004[/u][/b][/i]: [color=red][b]530i[/b] High Executive[/color], Silvergray with beige interior, Popular wood, Servotronic, Sportssuspension, electric foldable and dimmed mirrors, dimmed interior mirror, pappelmaser braun wood, cupholders, styling 123 18" wheels, Logic 7, Steptronic, alarm class 3, electric sunscreen in the rear and suncreens for sidewindows, Comfort seats, heated seats, Xenon with headlightwashers, Adaptive corner lights ALC, Advanced airconditioning, lightpackage, Nav Pro, 6 cd changer, side airbags rearseats, bluetooth siemens S55, chrome kidneys, gearlever with wood, voice recognition retrofit, front windshield with green band. Waiting for trunkopener button from Hobi :)

Especially the sms reading wich isn't possible is very annoying.. I had it on my old e46 and it was very handy..

Dec 2, 2004 | 01:20 PM

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apparently, the bluetooth coding has not been adopted in its full standard by all cell phone makers. motorola sounds like the company who is adopting it most closely to the spec that is standard and supports the BMW systems most fully. the new motorola RAZR V3 apparently works brilliantly with it.