Voice Phone Book available with NAV?
07-11-2006, 12:01 PM
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Hi, can someone answer a quick question for me. Can you use the "voice phone book" (NOT voice dialing)
function with a car that has NAV? I tried the instructions for storing an entry ("Save Name" etc.) but my car does not recognize the command. Someone previously posted that this function, which lets you create a separate phone book of voice controlled names/numbers, does not work on NAV equipped cars. Just want to confirm this before I drive my car off a cliff for not listening to my instructions.
By the way - isn't it unbelievable that cars with the amazing computing capabilites we have today are incapable of allowing you to manually create a simple phone book that can be utilized by ANY bluetooth enabled phone. If they can create an address book for the NAV system, why can't they do it for phones???? By the way, this is obviously not a problem unique to BMW. My new Lexus GX470 also has this shortcoming.
Two cars - three phones - two carriers - NONE OF THEM TALK TO EACH OTHER!
Rant off.
function with a car that has NAV? I tried the instructions for storing an entry ("Save Name" etc.) but my car does not recognize the command. Someone previously posted that this function, which lets you create a separate phone book of voice controlled names/numbers, does not work on NAV equipped cars. Just want to confirm this before I drive my car off a cliff for not listening to my instructions.
By the way - isn't it unbelievable that cars with the amazing computing capabilites we have today are incapable of allowing you to manually create a simple phone book that can be utilized by ANY bluetooth enabled phone. If they can create an address book for the NAV system, why can't they do it for phones???? By the way, this is obviously not a problem unique to BMW. My new Lexus GX470 also has this shortcoming.
Two cars - three phones - two carriers - NONE OF THEM TALK TO EACH OTHER!
Rant off.
07-11-2006, 12:29 PM
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Originally Posted by A2 BMW' post='309537' date='Jul 11 2006, 04:01 PM
Hi, can someone answer a quick question for me. Can you use the "voice phone book" (NOT voice dialing)
function with a car that has NAV?
function with a car that has NAV?
07-11-2006, 01:06 PM
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2006 Lexus GX 470
2005 SLK 350
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BMW 330xi; Mini Cooper S; Infiniti FX45; every Audi imaginable; various others
Originally Posted by ImolaRedM' post='309543' date='Jul 11 2006, 04:29 PM
Are you trying to access your phone book from your phone? Then the answer is yes. You should and *most* non-crippled Bluetooth phones will allow you to do this. If you're trying to create a second phone book then I don't think so.
I also have a Sprint Treo 650 which does offer limited transfer of "favorites" phone numbers, but I would like to supplement that with the "voice phonebook.
Thanks.
07-12-2006, 05:49 AM
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Originally Posted by A2 BMW' post='309551' date='Jul 11 2006, 10:06 PM
No - I am not trying to access the numbers on the phone, something I apparently can't do because my phonebook won't transfer from my phone (Sprint Samsung A900). What I am trying to do is a workaround that I thought I found in the BMW telephone sub-instruction manual that supposedly allows you to create a "voice phonebook" that is independant of the telephone's phonebook. When I go through the instructions to do this, voice command does not recognize the required command.
I also have a Sprint Treo 650 which does offer limited transfer of "favorites" phone numbers, but I would like to supplement that with the "voice phonebook.
Thanks.
I also have a Sprint Treo 650 which does offer limited transfer of "favorites" phone numbers, but I would like to supplement that with the "voice phonebook.
Thanks.
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