ill45

I currently have a treo700p and a Tech Model and I am unable to import my phonebook due to compatibility issues (Link)

I was wondering to those who have a compatible phone is how the whole phone book feature works. Do you naviagate to your menu on your (Navi or non-Navi) and select "Phonebook" and select a callee from there and it dials via bluetooth? And does it read your phonebook via bluetooth or if you have an new phone number added to your phone you have to re-import your phonebook to update?

Thanks.

CGTSX2004

iTrader: (1)

Once the car has your phonebook, it is available for use with any linked bluetooth phone. You navigate to the contact that you want to call and then hit the number and the car dials it via a bluetooth phone.

For new contacts, you need to update the whole phonebook, though that takes all of a few minutes so it should not be a big inconvenience.

ill45

thanks for the info. im tempted to just get a cheap phone thats compatiable to import the phone book and then swap back to my treo.

paulct

What is unfortunate is that they did not fully integrate the "imported phone book" with handsfree link. If you want to voice dial someone, you first have to add the entry to HFL by searching the imported phone book and manually add it. Two totally separate databases.

As the above poster points out, you can dial from the nav system, but it requires a lot of scrolling and pushing, which sort of defeats the purpose of handsfree! I suppose you could sit there and one by one add as many as you want to HFL, but I think its a pain.

Obviously this was done for cost reasons, as the base car has HFL but not the cellular phonebook. So they just did a quickie add-on to integrate the dialing function, but did not fully rewrite the software so that you have a single image system. Oh well!

Which is why you have two sets of "voice buttons" as well on the wheel. If you want to talk to HFL, you press one, everything else you press the other.

screamace

The HFL phonebook on 09 Base TSX has a maximum of 50 entries. I assume it's the same as the Tech model.

Colin

I think it's because the Navi is made by Alpine and the HFL by another OEM vendor (motorola maybe?)