Bluetooth and Palm Treo 750

[x-tian-RRHSE]

Hey everyone,

Does anyone on this board have the bluetooth option that is using the Palm Treo 750? I am having issues uploading my phone book up to the car. NOt sure how to do it...

Thanks

[x5GuyInLA]

If the 750 is the same as the 700p, then you have to program your favorites buttons with the numbers you want in your phone book.

[x-tian-RRHSE]

Originally Posted by x5GuyInLA

If the 750 is the same as the 700p, then you have to program your favorites buttons with the numbers you want in your phone book.

When you say favorite do you mean the speed dial buttons. (e.i one touch dialing?)

[BL1]

Yes....

I have a Verizon Treo 700w....only the speed dials upload into the X5.

[x5GuyInLA]

Originally Posted by x-tian-RRHSE

When you say favorite do you mean the speed dial buttons. (e.i one touch dialing?)

i guess the 750 has windows mobile, so what BL1 said is correct.

[JFW]

I think there's a program call Jetware that may help.

hth

[X5-RWK]

I have not had great sucess with my treo 750 and the vehicle bluetooth system. I have been able to get them to pair but they don't always want to connect and stay connected. You can be in the middle of a call and it will loose the bluetooth connection or even drop the call. My old K-Jam was pretty good and I had very few problems with that setup but I tired the 8525 for a while and it barely worked at all. Anyway, the bluetooth is hit and miss with and PDA phone and the BMW bluetooth system.

[JBHorner]

Although it's not a PDA (it's a Smartphone), I will say that I've had great luck with the Sprint Motorola Q. It pairs correctly, shows the signal strength, and the phone book is transferred successfully.

Joel

[X5-RWK]

My vernacular may be off “smarthphone vs. PDA phone”, he was asking about the treo 750 not the Motorola Q. Although both run WM5 and have similar features, they have very different hardware which is where the problem lies. Hopefully the upgrade that Palm is going to be offering to current treo 750 users to WM6 later this year may increase the usability of the Bluetooth link between the X5 and treo 750 users. I still think the hardware is always going to be an issue. Like I said before this is the third WM5 device I have tried and all have given me different results, two were manufactured by the same company and one worked and the other failed miserably.

[JBHorner]

I saw that he was talking about a Treo. I'm quite familiar with a PDA verses a Smartphone. The former has a touch screen, the latter does not. (An over-simplification, but more or less accurate.) The device platform itself, however, does not necessarily determine the compatibility. Bluetooth chipsets are often the same between the two platforms. (Broadcom, Motorola, etc.) I'm not convinced it is a hardware issue, rather, it is likely a software issue. (That can be solved through the OS, or through a firmware upgrade.)

The reason I brought up the Q is that others may read this thread (through a search or otherwise), and want to know what devices are found to work. They now know that the Sprint version of the Q works. The application differences between a Smartphone like the Q, and a Treo are not vast. In many cases, an individual may be quite satisfied with a Smartphone like the Q. (The interface is very Blackberry-like.) That said, if they are trying to decide between two devices, this may swing them in one direction or another. The reason I limited my comment to the Sprint Q is that I have not tested the Verizon Q. Verizon is known to limit capabilities of their Bluetooth implementations...so I did not include them by merely stating that "the Q works."

The differences between WM5 and WM6 will not likely solve this. The Microsoft stack for Bluetooth isn't always used. The beta of WM6 has shown no difference in Bluetooth functionality that I can see.

Joel