Dealer says phone function will not work with Samsung i730. Why not any bluetooth phone???
 

Anyone use this phone. Is there a list of phones that you can use? Why won't it work with ANY bluetooth phone??

Here's why...
 

The blue tooth standard calls for several profiles. The most common profile is the headset profile, to be used for blue tooth wireless headsets.
Cars require a phone to support the "Hands-Free profile", and many phones don't support that profile. It's a very well known issue.

I have the Sony Ericsson p900 phone that I paid $800 for last year. Doesn't work. Lucky for me, ahem, the p910 DOES (and I've tried it in my A6 so I can say it does).

The tough thing is finding out whether a phone supports the blue tooth hands free profile BEFORE we buy the phone, and it's not always very clear.

Thanks for the explanation....is there a lst of phones that work?

Motorola v600 for sure

Black Moto Razr

motorola v551

Treo 650.

Razr v3

Re: Dealer says phone function will not work with Samsung i730. Why not any bluetooth phone???
 

That dealer is clueless. My i730 works great, but cannot import my address book. All other functions work flawlessly.

Re: Motorola v600? Not fully supported
 

I cannot get the phonebook to sync between the car & my V600, but Bluetooth works for hands-free mode.