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The Treo and The Prius - it should be love at first sight!
March 01, 2007
I'm at ETel in San Francisco this week. I met a man with a Bluetooth problem and I'm trying to help him out.
As he says himself - "it's weird, one of the world's most technically advanced cars and one of the world's most advanced phones!!! - And they don't work together".
He has a Prius. The model he has comes with Bluetooth built-in. So far so good. He had an older Treo, which played nice with the car no problem. Dialling, audio, steaming, voice commands etc. Beautiful. Then he upgrades to a shiny new Treo 700.
And everything stops working.
No dialling. Glitches. Pairing fails. Yucch! Seems pretty broken - fundamentally.
When he described this to me I was transported - back to the days of 2000-2002. That was the norm then - Nokia handsets wouldn't play nice with Motorola headsets etc. Those days are now long gone, and pretty much everything plays nice with everything else.
So this is wierd. I've been trawling the message boards and I can't figure it out yet. There's talk of a patch for the Treo, but I'm not sure. If anyone knows, a hint would be very welcome. Meanwhile my hunt for the answer continues.
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