vp911

I must thank rets over on the TL forums for setting this up over there. Due to all the bluetooth questions, I am placing the same information here.

If there are any errors in this list or other phones that you have tested that you know or do not know, please make a post and I will update the list.



Audiovox SMT 5600 (no battery & singal)

Audiovox 6600/6601# (no battery & signal)





Blackberry 7100g#

Blackberry 7100t# info info

Blackberry 7250#

Blackberry 7290#

Nextel Blackberry 7520#





i-mate PDA2K (no battery, signal)

I-Mate JAM (No battery & Signal Strength)



LG PM-325# (no signal & battery)


LG VX8100[/url]#


Motorola A630 (no signal)

Motorola A780 (no battery and signal)

Motorola MPx220 (no battery and signal)

Motorola MPX300 (no battery and signal)

Motorola e398 (no battery)

Motorola V80#

Motorola V330 (no battery)

Motorola V500#

Motorola V505# (no battery)

Motorola V525#

Motorola V551# (no battery)

Motorola V600* (require firmware version >= 9.44) (no battery)

Motorola V620 (no battery)

Motorola v635 (no battery)

Motorola V710# (Firmware Ver. 1.40 would make this phone show all) 8700 01.40.0R would show everything

Motorola e815

Motorola RAZR V3# (no battery)



Nextel Motorola i605 (no battery)



... to be continued.

vp911

Continued...



Nokia 3600/3650#

Nokia 3620#

Nokia 3650/3660#

Nokia 6230# (no signal & battery)

Nokida 6255i (no signal & battery)

Nokia 6310i# (no signal & battery)

Nokia 6600 (no signal & battery)

Nokia 6620

Nokia 6650

Nokia 6810/6820# (no signal & battery)

Nokia 7610 (no signal & battery)

Nokia N-GAGE#

Nokia N-GAGE QD# (no singal & battery)





PalmOne Treo 650 (no signal & battery) Another review





SE T608#

SE T610#*

SE T616#*

SE T630#

SE T637#

SE T68i#

SE K600

SE K700i#

SE K750i

SE S700i#

SE P910a ??

SE P910i info

SE Z600#





Siemens S55/S56#*

Siemens S65/S66#


Samsung I730 (no battery & signal)


#: Approval by Acura.com
*: Discontinued model





How to check firmware?

• If you see the wrong info/new models/discontinued models here, please post, and we will CORRECT it ASAP.

Nocturnal

Verizon Moto 815: fully functional
Verizon LG LX8100: appears fully functional but didn't test transfer.

DaveGee

What does the "(no battery)" note mean? I'm looking to get a phone compatable with the RL bluetooth, but unsure of what this message means.

TIA

DaveGee

Nocturnal

No battery status indicator in the MID.

vp911

How did I miss those - those are the two I have been using most recently. I will update these shortly.

vp911

6256i works no signal or batt (will update list later)

oblio98

Nextel i870:

This phone works in my RL, however there is no signal strength or Battery indicator.

HOWEVER!!! I was shocked to find that the Nextel Direct Connect works!
You still have to press the PTT button on the phone, but the speaker and mic in the car take over for the phone. I was under the impression that the Direct Connect would not work with the BlueTooth stuff.

Very cool!

petemc

Treo 650 now has signal strength with the latest firmware from Cingular (version 1.17), but still doesn't have battery strength.

Pete

BonzoAPD

Hi,

Does the Verizon Samsung SCH- a950 V CASTsm work with the 2005 Acura RL's system? Thanks.

Melencio

T-Mobile MDA works. No signal strength, no Batttery Life.

AcuraRLBlue

I-Mate Jamin (No battery & Signal Strength)

bmac

Does anyone know if the 8125 from Cingular works?

whydidnt

Curious if anyone else had the same lack of success with the Cingular 2125. It pairs, I can dial out, but if I answer an incoming call with the HFL, the other party can hear me, but I can't hear them.

It's odd to me that it doesn't work, since most other HTC built phones work, and it should have the same bluetooth stack as the TMobile MDA reported to work here.

kgd

Ditto the 8125. Will probably pick up this phone if it works.

eaRL

I want to add the Blackberry 8700c to the list of the RL's HandsFreeLink bluetooth compatible phones. All HFL functions work 100% as advertised. Compared to the other three phones I have used with the car's HFL, the 8700 is the best, IMO.

One thing to note; There have been a few reports of 8700's constantly disconnecting and reconnecting to the HFL system after being paired. If you are experiencing this then the bluetooth radio in your 8700 is probably bad and you need to replace your phone. The HFL unit in the RL is fine, it is the phone that needs to be replaced.

Link to picture of the phone

vp911

eaRL, that is a great post. Thanks for giving me everything. I will be updating this thread and the same one in the TL forum shortly

kgd

Cingular 8125 works fine. No Bat or Signal strength on the MID, also no data connection (at least I could not get it to work). Seems like this is the same for all of the PDA phones.

RLtechie

Hi.

Anyone have Mot v557 experiences (preferably Cingular) to report?

Cingular no longer offer v551 and I want the v557 for it's EDGE data capability.

If you do have v557, does Acura Link data connection work okay with it?

Thanks.

garym040

Is there anyone else who can get a Blackberry 8700 to work with the RL's
bluetooth? Mine just constantly connects and reconnects....

bearcat2000

Just a note to say that the Motorola E815 and Razr V3c both display BOTH battery and signal strength in my Acura and my Toyota. Yeah!

neilah

Just my luck -- nice bluetooth phone with no battery. I'll take it!

johnAboy

has anyone used or know if the Sprint Samsung A920 works in the RL?

jhuang711

I've been using my S-E z520a from Cingular with the 2G RL's Bluetooth with no problems.

Signal Strenth reports fine, Battery reports fine. Always shows Roaming through... even when in Home Area.

jcb-memphis

Anyone know if data on the Sprint Treo 650 is planned any time soon?

TIA

JB

bschwartz215

I have Verizon service and an LG 8300 phone. I was wondering what everyone thinks of the HFL? I can hear people fine, but people constantly complain about how bad I sound, and I am thinking that there may be something wrond with my HFL. Any thoughts?

Benush

If you have not done so, take in your phone and get update V03. it cleared up a multitude of problems on a freinds VX8300 including his sound chamber/echo effects. If you are already at V03 then I am sorry but no idea.

I can tell you that my Moto E815 sounds fair, but my friends RAZR sounds great on the same HFL system (and others onthis site have said the same thing), so I would guess it is the phone before it is the HFL. I plan to get rid the E815 even with its better reception and get the KRZR just so people can hear me better on the HFL and bluetooth headset.

Just my 2 cents

Chas2

FWIW,

RIM Blackberry 8700g, T-Mobile, v. 4.1.0.346
Sanyo 6600 Katana, Sprint, v. 1.001SP


Also, check on latest firmware, see the link

http://www.phonenews.com/phones/inde...cker&Itemid=21

neilah

Recently picked up a Nokia E61 unlocked from ebay (Qwerty keyboard, blackberry-looking device). This model is very similar, but not quite the same, as the recently introduced E62 from Cingular. I suspect the E62 will work the same as my E61.

While I do not get signal or battery strength in the MID, the phone's bluetooth connection to my '05 RL works just fine.

--Neil

dwboston

I received my KRZR from Cingular last night. The phone paired flawlessly with the HFL and connected to the AcuraLink server without a problem. Both signal strength and battery strength are visible in the MID. So far it's a great phone and I'm very happy with it. Much better reception and call quality than the RAZR.

Gator5000e

I just got an 8525 on Cingular (or is it at&t again? - meh!!) and it works great. As with other windows Mobile phones, no singal strength or battery level. And I have never been able to connect to the AcuraLink server with any WinMo phone, including this one.

dwboston

Noticed something funny about the battery strength indicator. The indicator on the phone display only goes up to 3 bars. The one in the mid has 4 or 5 bars, but only 3 are lit up when the phone is fully charged. Obviously the phone is passing the number of bars to the car and not the % charged condition of the battery (even though the battery meter in the phone menu goes from 1-6) and the car is displaying exactly what it receives.

db22

has anyone linked the Moto Q?

award123

Motorola Q Works - No Phone Contact Importing capabilities or AcuraServer connectivity due to Verizon limiting functionality. One last issue is that with MOL2 update you can initiate a call through the HFL but then you have to click Menu and Hands Free On on the phone to work properly.

getakey

I have Verizon Treo 700w. Works pretty well, but No Battery or Sig strength. However, after installing OS update MKU2, I have to soft reset the phone everyday or it stops pairing with car.

db22

Thanks for the info but do you have to operate the phone for every call from HFL. If so, doesn't that negate the hands free part?

award123

Not really....here is the scenarios and how they work:

Incoming Call - Displays a new call on the screen and you can accept it accordingly with out messing with the phone itself.

Outgoing Call - Can use the HFL to place the call. Immediately the Handsfree Pairing on the phone stops. On the phone click Menu -> Handsfree Set ON and then it works through the HFL.

Call Waiting - Does not come through and you are not notified someone is calling in.

So...yes and no...I spent 1.5 hours on a conference call I dialed into through HFL. For me to press Menu -> Handsfree Set On from the phone is worth it than not working at all as you see with some of the other units.

Chao,
aaron

db22

Thanks again for info but my Moto 815 works fine so I don't think that I will go to MotoQ. I don't know if Acura or Moto will have new software soon to allow the use of the newer phones.

ecb1171

I just got a Samsung Blackjack. The HFL website lists the phone as not being compatible with the HFL because it failed the hang up from HFL test (it passed all other basic functionality tests) In addition, the Blackjack does not display battery or signal strength (given that it is a WM5 device that's not a shock)

I've used it both to send and recieve calls and it has worked well. In fact, I have always been able to hang up the phone via the HFL controls.

There is one caveat, it seems like when the phone has not been connected to the Acura HFL for a long time, I need to turn the phone on and off and let it reconnect to the Acura. If I do not the phone willstill esatblish a bluetooth connection with the HFL (though I think that it is not a good connection) but the end result is that I am unable to dial out. To be specific, I instruct the HFL to dial, it seem to attempt to but nothing happens on the phone. After the attempt, the phone seems to lose the BT connection ( the headset icon on the phone disapears) until I hit the connect button on the HFL system.

I have not realy been able to coorelate exactly what scenerio causes this need to reboot the phone, does anyone else have any input ?

Thanks !

PS.... for the most part, the Blackjack realy works well with the Acura HFL (as long as you can live without battery and signal indicators)

jftjr

Got my wife-to-be a Nokia 6133 from T-Mobile a few months ago. Paired it with my RL last week -- signal strength, battery indicator AND Acura Link all work.... I just ordered one for myself to replace my Nokia 6103, which just happened to get a broken video screen the other day...