Question: Can a bluetooth headset be used tgth. with Traffic

Espique · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jun 08, 2004 Posts: 11

Hi,

usually when I drive the car I have a bluetooth headset connected to my phone. Now I am wondering about Tomtom Traffic. As I understand it, the PDA will have to make a bluetooth connection to the phone to dialup the internet and get traffic data. The question is whether this works while the phone is already having an active connection with the headset. Any ideas?

The phone right now is a Motorola RAZR V3, but will eventualy be a Sony Ericsson K750i.

Thanks

ulroy · Occasional Visitor Joined: Oct 27, 2004 Posts: 10

The BT stack on the 750i can only managed one connection at a time.

You will loose one if you try to iniciate the other.

Not too sure about the Motorola, but I would imagine it would be the same.

Espique · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jun 08, 2004 Posts: 11

I was told in another forum that it in fact does support multiple connections, as long as each connection uses a different bluetooth profile (e.g. handsfree and serial). So this would be it I guess....

ahellary · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jul 19, 2005 Posts: 5

i heard from a guy a carphone wherehouse that the 750i could do two ... almost changed to that

Gavi · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jun 28, 2005 Posts: 11

This is a bit of a luddite reply, but I do a high mileage and am also a relatively heavy user of my mobile phone. I had a similar problem to the one you describe in that my phone cannot cope with my in car phone preparation (hard wired) and Bluetooth GPRS at the same time.

Getting another phone is not really an option until Audi catch up with the phones currently available, or at least do a universal bluetooth adaptor. After talking with Vodafone, they issued (ok, sold) me a separate SIM and phone for £12.50 per month which I now use as the in car modem. It also comes with its own stack of free minutes which I use as a contingency when my main phone exceeds the minutes I pay £50 per month for. £12.50 may seem a lot, but it is not as much as a few long phone calls at full rate.

st1967 · Lifetime Member Joined: Nov 28, 2003 Posts: 189

I bought the cheapest most beat up bluetooth phone I could find on ebay. Turned out to be a SE T610 for £20 and put an orange payg sim (also from ebay for £3) in and use that for Traffic. Works great and is quite a small phone so fits into my centre arm rest.

My normal car kit is bluetooth and works fine with my main phone !! Is a little cheaper than a contract for it. Plus a single £10 top up lasts around 4 months !! Shame TT Traffic is really sh1te at the moment though.

ahellary · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jul 19, 2005 Posts: 5

i have an old motorolla v600 i could use i think

MrVolition · Occasional Visitor Joined: Oct 03, 2005 Posts: 1

The Sony Ericsson K750i will work perfectly connected via bluetooth to both your PDA for traffic and a bluetooth headset.

I know this because I use it all the time!

The K750i has a power saving option in the settings to restrict bluetooth to 1 active connection, but mine was turned off by default.

Hope this helps.

lif3mouldnn · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jul 21, 2004 Posts: 12

Can anyone else confirm the sony k750i will do 2 bluetooth connections?

How does it work in reality. Does it pick up the carkit when the phone rings and then go back to being a modem when call is terminated.

If this can be confirmed I'll buy one.

The only phone I knew off that could do this was the sony P900.

Can anyone name other phones?

At the moment I have 2 phones in the car.

Regards Nigel.

Jakle · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jun 21, 2005 Posts: 34

My SE P910i works teo connections fine.

Fredx · Occasional Visitor Joined: Aug 15, 2005 Posts: 11

Was told by Sony Erisccon that none of their phones supported multiple BT - I guess that just goes to show that their helpdesk don't know much about their own product range!

Asked Nokia the same question - they said their only phone that does it is the 8800; I'm not that keen to pay the £190 to upgrade to that one!

reesy · Occasional Visitor Joined: Nov 15, 2005 Posts: 3

Hi, longtime lurker here, posting for the first time

From experience with the k750i, it depends on your phone firmware version

I was on R1L and it worked like a dream, maintained both connections faultlessly, I'm now on R1N and restricted to 1 connection, which is a right pain. One will disconnect the other, and when you're on a call and the TTT kicks in it, the call gets dropped. The headset can be connected no problem, when TTT is working, just can't be in use.

I have the powersave off too btw..hopefully the next firmware from SE will fix it... (www.esato.com has all the details if you're interested)

Steve

Fredx · Occasional Visitor Joined: Aug 15, 2005 Posts: 11

Wouldn't it be nice if TomTom dropped the connectino to the phone after it had collected the traffic update, and then reconnected when teh next update was due...

Then again, that would be another subversive idea like letting us use the PDA for something else leaving Navigator running in the background, instead of making us turn off Navigator, do the other job and then start it up again.

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