Bluetooth phone pairing for a 2008 X5

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ANY Bluetooth compatible phone should work with your system to allow hands free calling. There are some compatibility issues with older phones that cause problems in loading your phone book correctly, but calling still works. There is no way that using a non-approved phone can damage your system (take it from an engineer who has designed these systems). There are just simply too many phones on the market for the folks at BMW to test every one. The list for Verizon is short because these are CDMA phones, while the rest of the world uses GSM.