brn2rnjk1 Posted April 16, 2005 Share Posted April 16, 2005 Just got my 2006 GS300AWD today. What a great car. However, my lexus dealer said not to program the bluetooth yet since the Verizon bluetooth is very limited and they are upgrading it in 3 months or so. Does anyone have any furrther info on what this means and when can I start using Verizon bluetooth? Thanks, Jim Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cruznroadking Posted April 17, 2005 Share Posted April 17, 2005 Check out www.letstalk.com it should list the phones that are bluetooth compatiable. Some Verizon phones won't work with Lexus Bluetooth like the V710i Hope this helps. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lexusgeo Posted September 27, 2005 Share Posted September 27, 2005 I live in Massachusetts, not exactly a small hick community, and there are NO Verizon bluetooth supported phones yet for the Lexus GS300/430. I find this incredible. I am told by the Lexus dealer that Lexus is going to have an approved bluetooth phone "in the November timeframe" and that I should wait. Surprisingly basic issue to be missed so badly by Lexus Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
navguy Posted September 27, 2005 Share Posted September 27, 2005 I live in Massachusetts, not exactly a small hick community, and there are NO Verizon bluetooth supported phones yet for the Lexus GS300/430. I find this incredible.I am told by the Lexus dealer that Lexus is going to have an approved bluetooth phone "in the November timeframe" and that I should wait. Surprisingly basic issue to be missed so badly by Lexus ← The issue is the service provider... not Lexus. If you read the news you will find that Verizon is currently involved in a class action lawsuit since they prevent some of the phones built-in feature from working; namely the Object Push Profile. Verizon prefers that you send your data over their network as opposed to the Bluetooth technology. Go figure! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tachy Posted September 27, 2005 Share Posted September 27, 2005 I live in Massachusetts, not exactly a small hick community, and there are NO Verizon bluetooth supported phones yet for the Lexus GS300/430. I find this incredible.I am told by the Lexus dealer that Lexus is going to have an approved bluetooth phone "in the November timeframe" and that I should wait. Surprisingly basic issue to be missed so badly by Lexus ← The issue is the service provider... not Lexus. If you read the news you will find that Verizon is currently involved in a class action lawsuit since they prevent some of the phones built-in feature from working; namely the Object Push Profile. Verizon prefers that you send your data over their network as opposed to the Bluetooth technology. Go figure! ← I just returned my verizon phone for a tmobile, cause in florida the only companies that offer bluetooth that can sync the phone book were tmobile and cingular. My new motorola v330 works well, the only problem is the motorola phones only send one phone item at a time, which is good once you send all of them once to update items, but is a real pain to start. I had the Motorola E815 bluetooth through verizon. That phone worked good for calls with bluetooth(and has some features I like a litte more than the v330, which has slightly older software it seemed,),but has no ability to send phone book entries. I would have kept it if Lexus would have designed the cell phone with a way to enter phonebook entries (such as entering text with the navigation system). It is very important, since without this text you cannot see any info on the 1-touch dial entries, and these are the ONLY ones you can use while the car is moving. The sony I think allows you to send the entire phone book. I actually had my tmobile rep send my old phone book via the sony to the lexus, and then put the phone book in my new motorola v330. It didnt really save me much time however, since most of the entries needed to be editted it seems because of how the entries got sorted. It automatically ordered them by the last name or word typed in, so I got arround that by using the underscore key to hold the words together. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lexus411 Posted September 28, 2005 Share Posted September 28, 2005 you can definitely connect your bluetooth phone. There are some good ways around the block on here. My phone works good once you get used to the few shortcomings Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brn2rnjk1 Posted September 28, 2005 Author Share Posted September 28, 2005 you can definitely connect your bluetooth phone. There are some good ways around the block on here. My phone works good once you get used to the few shortcomings ← More frustrating to me is not the lack of push capability on the verizon network, but that I can't use the keypad to dial or use phonebook while in motion. I know the software workaround for the nav system, but can't find one for the phone. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tachy Posted September 28, 2005 Share Posted September 28, 2005 you can definitely connect your bluetooth phone. There are some good ways around the block on here. My phone works good once you get used to the few shortcomings ← More frustrating to me is not the lack of push capability on the verizon network, but that I can't use the keypad to dial or use phonebook while in motion. I know the software workaround for the nav system, but can't find one for the phone. ← The workable solution for the phone is to push your phonebook to the lexus and then save 17 numbers to the one touch phonebook. And what is the software fix you speak of for the nav? If you need to stick with verizon for some reason, you could always find a tmobile guy to copy your addressbook to a tmobile or cingular wireless phone, preferrable a sony so that you can then copy the entire phone book to the lexus. I finally broke down and changed to tmobile since I did not want this hassle every time I changed my addressbook. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tachy Posted September 28, 2005 Share Posted September 28, 2005 you can definitely connect your bluetooth phone. There are some good ways around the block on here. My phone works good once you get used to the few shortcomings ← More frustrating to me is not the lack of push capability on the verizon network, but that I can't use the keypad to dial or use phonebook while in motion. I know the software workaround for the nav system, but can't find one for the phone. ← The workable solution for the phone is to push your phonebook to the lexus and then save 17 numbers to the one touch phonebook. And what is the software fix you speak of for the nav? If you need to stick with verizon for some reason, you could always find a tmobile guy to copy your addressbook to a tmobile or cingular wireless phone, preferrable a sony so that you can then copy the entire phone book to the lexus. I finally broke down and changed to tmobile since I did not want this hassle every time I changed my addressbook. ← If you ask verizon (and finally get to speak to someone after 10 transfers that actually understands bluetooth), their stock answer was something like they inactivated the bluetooth transfer feature for anything but voice to protect you from getting viruses on your cell phone. Cingular and Tmobile allow file transfers. If you look on the internet for cellular forums, it seems more likely that the reason has something to do with the fact that verizon can charge you for sending photos and other files types to your pc or to others via email, but if you could send it via bluetooth, perhaps they would make less. I am not sure what the reasoning was, but most at verizon until you get to the most senior tech support guys that specialize in bluetooth seem to either know little about the issue, or play dumb. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joey8675 Posted September 28, 2005 Share Posted September 28, 2005 The only thing LEXUS can do is change the lexus system to allow you to manaually enter in names. Verizon is not going to change their Bluetooth phone capabilities until (or if) they lose the Class Action Suit. The only real work around is to by a junky phone to program your numbers, that's what I do. (Dialing the number and assiging it to a ONE TOUCH button does not help you because you cannot enter a name and when you drive the numbers don't show up, so you have no clue what's stored on what button) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
In2Deep Posted October 3, 2005 Share Posted October 3, 2005 My Verizon-powered Blackberry Bluetooth device allows me to go hands-free in my '06 -- but I haven't figured out how to upload my phone book (Outlook). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wnrussell Posted November 7, 2005 Share Posted November 7, 2005 If you ask verizon (and finally get to speak to someone after 10 transfers that actually understands bluetooth), their stock answer was something like they inactivated the bluetooth transfer feature for anything but voice to protect you from getting viruses on your cell phone. Cingular and Tmobile allow file transfers.If you look on the internet for cellular forums, it seems more likely that the reason has something to do with the fact that verizon can charge you for sending photos and other files types to your pc or to others via email, but if you could send it via bluetooth, perhaps they would make less. I am not sure what the reasoning was, but most at verizon until you get to the most senior tech support guys that specialize in bluetooth seem to either know little about the issue, or play dumb. ← You are exactly right. Check this out: http://www.canyouhearusnow.net/bluetooth/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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