New Motorola V551, Bluetooth & Prius?

[spencer999]

I see that the Motorola V600 is on the Letstalk website as a compatible Bluetooth phone for the Prius... but I went into the Cingular shop today (in Los Angeles, CA) and they told me that the phone has been discontinued.

The compatible option would now be the V551.... has anyone tried this phone with the Prius? Does it work? Full function? Partial?

Any help or advice would be great. It seems to be the only bluetooth phone that I like, and that's a clamshell.

thanks!

lawrence


p.s. I hope this is the correct forum for this kind of question....

[efusco]

It "should" work fine...It is very similar to the v505 that I have that is 98% compatible (doesn't allow the entire phonelist to be uploaded at one time). It was very much like the v600.

[DHJ]

[font=Arial:58d23a3aa1] [/font:58d23a3aa1] </span><span style=\'color:#\'> I have a V551 which I got a few days ago. I works fine with the Bulutooth system with a couple of glitches.

The first problem is that the Prius manual says that I can download the phonebook. I have tried and can only seem to download one entry at a time. A real pain if one has a lot of entries.

The second is that the phonebook in the car reverses the names in the phonebook in the phone. That is, "Brad, cell" in the phone becomes "Cell Brad" in the car. Havn't figured out to correct this, if it is possible at all.

Any ideas on this would be appreciated.

[Mitchla]

I got a V551 last week and am happy with it. But I'm having the same trouble as the person above -- the Prius reverses the first and last names (or words) and there doesn't appear to be any setting to change that. My workaround to is just have it all be one word. So "Jim Smith-work" is now merely Jim-w. (And I hope I don't meet any new Jims.)

I'm a Mac user and getting the info into my V551--and configured as above or any other way I want--has been easy thanks to a program called OnSync. And I'm doing this from my Mac using Bluetooth. Even Apple's iSync won't do that--it requires a USB cable.

[spencer999]

So I've had the phone for about a week, and the car for 3 days... I love them both.

The V551 works very well with the prius... the connection is great, simple, easy and sounds good.

The only flaw is the uploading of the phone book must be done one at a time, and they do come up backwards (last name, first name)... just like you said.

I'm going to try to send them from my computer this time if i can get a bluetooth connection between the two.

Oh, FYI there are a bad batch of these phones. They will randomly give you a white screen when you open them up. If you have one of these phones, take it back and they will swap it out for you.

Lawrence

[redhen]

Good to know! I'm also in LA, and hated my Sony Ericsson T616. Everyone I would talk via my Bluetooth to would beg me to use my headset. I can't seem to find too many people on this site who had a similar problem, so i hope I just had a wonky phone - and that a new one will be perfect. So, I'm switching to Cingular tomorrow, and I'll try the Motorola V551!

[spencer999]

Yeah, it works great... still working on uploading the contacts though... my computer is not connecting, so i have to go visit my friend who got his to connect.

Also i've realized that Caller ID isn't showing up on the screen, and the ring isn't coming through the speaker.... it's a loud, and different ring but i think it's coming from my phone... although the stereo does mute and the screen changes to "incoming call".

regardless, it's great.

oh, i can also dial a call on my phone (rather than on the screen) while driving and when it rings, it connects to the bluetooth and is on the speakers... so if the speed cancellation thing is not really an issue.

good luck!

lawrence

[jaguaraja]

The moto V710 is still being a pain. No software update as of yet.

[DHJ]

I also found that I can dial from my phone, rather than from the car, but the connection is not made "quickly" as it is when dialing from the car. If I dial from the phone, the connection to the car is often not made until after the party has answered and said "hello" a few times. When I dial from the car, the connection to the car is made immediately, and I can hear the ringing.

I have installed a dial lockout override circuit, and love it!

[spencer999]

Okay, sorry i was wrong about it not ringing... it does ring.... but somehow it's not through the speakers... it seems to come out from the middle of the car somewhere... hm...

anyhow... it's a good thing.. i had my phone in my bag in the back seat and it still rang loud and clear somewhere up in the front seat area... no caller id though.

lawrence