NO SAMSUNG phones work with Toyotas!!!

[hdrygas]

I will be looking for new phones next month. I have crossed Verizon off my list, because of their "business model" that does not include enabling Bluetooth and I guess I should take a hard look at Samsung.

[ceric]

I highly recommend Sony Ericsson W600i from Cingular.
It is MP3/FM Radio/Cell Phone/Camera/PSP combined into one! (all in smaller scale)
The 256M memory space is the only drawback.
For Prius owners, it has the one-shot phone book transfer!
So far, I have found only one minor bug on my phone. For a phone this complex, it is acceptable.

I used to carry Moto V551. SE W600i is one-gen better.

[Vagabond]

Samsung works just fine with the Prius. Now, each model may or may not (ala the samsung a900 for sprint, but that thing had issues with everything) but in general, it should work just fine.

[Vagabond]

Originally posted by OUscarb@Feb 27 2006, 03:50 PM
Not saying there arn't some decent Samsung products, but if I'm going to sign a 2 year phone agreement, I don't want to be stuck with a Samsung.

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Good luck not being stuck with one. They're the biggest phone maker in the world.

[kellsworthington]

Originally posted by infohwyguy@Feb 27 2006, 10:33 PM
I also have a Samsung D307 (Cingular).  Don't give up trying to pair it with your Prius bluetooth.  You should be able to get it to work.  It failed a few times when I first tried to set it up, but got it working after a few tries.  Now it works pretty reliably.  Sometimes I've noticed the D307 LCD display light (on the outside) stays on constantly after using the phone in the car.  The only way I've found to turn the light off is to recycle power on the phone.

Rick S.

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Anything special you've done with the phone besides pairing/unpairing?

[infohwyguy]

Originally posted by kellsworthington@Feb 28 2006, 01:29 PM
Anything special you've done with the phone besides pairing/unpairing?

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Nothing special, but it's a bit tricky getting them paired up. It takes several tries. I had to delete the name of the other bluetooth device several times (in both the phone and in the car) and start the process from scratch before it finally worked. Once I got them paired up, everything has been working fine ever since; except of course the problem I still have once in a while, where the phone's LCD backlight sometimes gets stuck on. As I stated before, all I need do to correct this is recycle power on the phone and the backlight problem goes away.

I wish it worked better. I've now gotten into the habit of pulling the phone out of it's holster after I've been in the car to check if the backlight is stuck on.


Rick S

[kellsworthington]

Originally posted by infohwyguy@Feb 28 2006, 07:08 PM
Nothing special, but it's a bit tricky getting them paired up.  It takes several tries.  I had to delete the name of the other bluetooth device several times (in both the phone and in the car) and start the process from scratch before it finally worked.  Once I got them paired up, everything has been working fine ever since; except of course the problem I still have once in a while, where the phone's LCD backlight sometimes gets stuck on.  As I stated before, all I need do to correct this is recycle power on the phone and the backlight problem goes away.

I wish it worked better.  I've now gotten into the habit of pulling the phone out of it's holster after I've been in the car to check if the backlight is stuck on.
Rick S

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That's weird... I never had a problem pairing the two... My problem was just that i'd be talking about a minute and it would transfer the call to my phone without warning.

I convinced Cingular to send me a replacement phone (the same phone) to see if that works. Thanks for your input though!

[warrior]

I use a Jitterbug. Works just fine

[qbee42]

Originally Posted by ceric

I highly recommend Sony Ericsson W600i from Cingular.
It is MP3/FM Radio/Cell Phone/Camera/PSP combined into one! (all in smaller scale)
The 256M memory space is the only drawback.
For Prius owners, it has the one-shot phone book transfer!
So far, I have found only one minor bug on my phone. For a phone this complex, it is acceptable.

I used to carry Moto V551. SE W600i is one-gen better.

I have a Sony Ericsson W300i, which is an earlier version of the W600i. It works great.

Tom

[KK6PD]

For those of you with compatibility issues, go here...

Toyota Bluetooth Phone

It has a list of all phones, and what options will work with the Prius.
It worked for me, I got Verizon Envy, 99.9% compatabile. Good enough for me!

Good Luck