No, I haven't done it. But I'd love to see it. Anyone going this far with enhancements? I'd love to be able to see the Treo 600 interface up on the Nav, connected via bluetooth. We'd have the touch screen phone keypad, the ability to browse the internet and check traffic maps, and the ability to see our appointments, etc.

Just a little dreaming...

 

youngmic,

I also have the Treo 600.. it is such a great phone, that I will not give it up for a Boluetooth enabled one right now.

There are rumors of a new Treo 600 with Bluetooth coming out later this year also.

It would be great to see the display on the nav screen.. right now I would settle for just bluetooth so we can use it with the car.

They used to talk about bluetooth SD cards, but there are none made as of yet for the 600... and even if there was, it may not include the handsfree profile needed for the 600.

Let me know if you find anything out about this.

Mike

 

Isn't the TReo a PDA/Phone with an SD or CF slot? That being said couldn't you just get an SD/CF bluetooth card and work it just like a BT phone?

Just thinking out loud.

 

Yes, that is true but no one is manufacturing one just yet... This is why I didn't buy the treo 600.. I am waiting for bluetooth availability!

 

Palm make an SDIO bluetooth card.
But there are no drivers to make it work the the Treo 600 yet.

 

Ditto!


I love my 600.. and it NEEDS bluetooth!

 

Think p900, much better and with bluetooth, but lacks a handsfreeprofile.

 

Don't count on having Bluetooth audio support on an SDIO card. It will probably only support data profiles. The SDIO specification has no provisions for any type of isochronous audio transfers, making implementation of audio services nearly impossible.

 

It's hard to believe we can just use Bluetooth to transfer the screen from PDA/Cell/Laptop/whatever devices. IMO, without the modification of Audio/Video system of TL, I cannot see this is going to happen.

If our Bluetooth is so powerful or 04TL has equiped this kind of potential feature, Acura would say it and make it advertise to lure more customers.

 

Yeah, you're right, you would need quite a bit more than just a PDA w/bluetooth. Essentially, you'd need a PDA, or palmtop, hooked up to the display, interfacing with the TL HFL. If you had a PDA, you'd have to sync it with the car. It would be a cool customization.

 

The shops should soon be aware of how to deal with 04TL Navi LCD. You may check this, William's 2004 TL stereo system by weeeg

You may already know he's done the great modification to his system.

 

Thanks for the kind words. I'm in the same boat as you guys - I'm trying to decide on if I want to dump my Color Sidekick and get a Treo 600. I'm really bummed that it won't work with the TL's handsfree system. This thread seems like it is steering towards the concept of a in-car computer (that feeds into the factory screen). The method that I'm using to get a video feed into the factory screen only provides me with a NTSC composite input, but to do a decent car computer you'd need RGB or DVI input. Just something to keep in mind...

 

Actually a decent application would be to allow the Nav screen to display the output from your phone. Many of the BT phones support GPRS or some other type of packet-based communication.

It seems very feasible to use the touch screen to "surf the web" using the phone's GPRS connection as the connectivity medium.

Checking the weather, buying movie tickets, etc.

 

... of course that is what the original thread was suggesting.

I didn't scroll back far enough :smackhead

I read somewhere that the Nav system is running Windows CE. That certainly has the capability to use a GPRS phone as a modem to the Internet. This functionality cannot be hard to do.

I would imagine there are a couple of Alpine/Acura engineers riding around in their TL's surfing the net.

 

I also have a Treo 600 CDMA w/ Sprint. The news is that the 2nd generation ones ALSO DO NOT HAVE BLUETOOTH!! There is a SDIO card made by some crappy 3rd party company with the project in mind but I doubt it will support the Phone feature. But from what I hear from www.TreoCentral.com , Even IF Bluetooth is added into future Treos, I probably still wont have it cuz of Crappy Sprint and their fear of people being bandwidth whores and will take advantage of the Unlimited Data for $15 are using the bluetooth and linking it to their laptops and using much more bandwidth than a Cellphone could possibly use, which is probably what people will do I think Im going to switch to Cingular IF the future Treo does come out w/ Bluetooth, or I am thinking about geting the T608 for sprint if they come back. I missed my chance the 1st time

 

Scratch that. I lie! The 2nd generation Treo WILL have bluetooth but PROBABLY only on the GSM (everything but sprint). So Sprint Users such as I, need to keep our fingers crossed! check out www.Treocentral.com

 

I think the main issue would be software. Both GPRS/CSD and normal sound can be transmitted via bluetooth, it just needs an interface, But I do not think that the HFL system is truley connected to the navi, navi simply sends code to the HFL to dial a number on it.