I personally have the Motorola v600 and the ringing works fine. I have tested it out and can walk about 20 feet away from my car and it works fine. I tried your idea and placed my cell phone all over my car and it worked fine. I even put it in the spare tire compartment and still had no problems. I also have the problem of importing my phonebook over, but hopefully within the next few months that will be solved. As far as clarity, I have never had a problem other than it picking up a lot of outside noise...it is almost impossible to drive w/ the windows down and talk on the bluetooth system, even driving slowly. Other than that I think it is a great system. Yes it is a downfall about not being able to dial while driving...the only numbers you can dial on the system while driving is the last dialed number, which isn't even the last call from your phone, but the last number dialed from the system.
Another annoying issue for me at least is when the phone is dialing, there is no sound. Like I said I have the v600 so I don't know if the v710 has the same problem, but when the call is dialing out, there is just silence and it has a slight delay between the party answering, and the microphone activating.
Instead of getting the v710 I think I'm going to hold off a little longer and get the Motorola RAZR V3 when it comes out...hopefully all these issues will be addressed by the time it comes out.
-George L.
