Thread: New Phone Software

My wife said that if you get the iPhone working in CF that she'll bake you guys a cake or cookies

For me, I just want my Treo to work.

Originally Posted by smeesseman

in my honest opinion, I have worked with now 7 bluetooth stacks, and brooadcomm stack BY FAR is the most unreliable one. Bugs, inconsistent connections, across the baord it is just not reliable. You'll be happy with the new solution, it is a Windows stack too, but far more integrated into CF as far as functionality.

Well that sounds great to me. I don't mind buying a dongle at all, especially if I know it will work. Plus, BT dongles are cheap. I am trying to find out what stack the Kensington dongles use... they have that new micro-dongle that is slick and tiny, and you can get it at Worst Buy for pretty cheap. Kensington's website is down right now so I'll have to keep checking.

@Ew_out: the RAZR's BT functionality is somewhat limited compared with other phones, but it should still work. When I say it's limited, Motorola phones only allow one BT service to function at a time. For purposes of using it for handsfree conversation via Centrafuse, you should be fine since doing so only requires use of the Handsfree or DUN service. If you were trying to, for example, talk on the phone while simultaneously being connected to the internet over BT, that would not work on your RAZR. That's moot anyway b/c that's not what this phone module is shooting for.

@nasa: yes, a 2.0 dongle will work.

@ik632: your Treo should work. The only issue I've seen with Treo's is lack of support for phonebook and call log importing. But handsfree with dialing out and receiving calls should definitely work. Unfortunately it looks like you have a Palm-based one as opposed to Windows Mobile. There is software called Jetware Mobile which creates a virtual BT serial port on your phone if your BT stack doesn't support it, which has been shown to fix issues with Treo's that can't export phonebooks and call logs over BT. But alas, Jetware Mobile is only for Windows Mobile right now.

Ok, just found out that the Kensington micro-USB BT dongle uses the Toshiba stack. Nice!

Originally Posted by Nola111

@ik632: your Treo should work. The only issue I've seen with Treo's is lack of support for phonebook and call log importing. But handsfree with dialing out and receiving calls should definitely work. Unfortunately it looks like you have a Palm-based one as opposed to Windows Mobile. There is software called Jetware Mobile which creates a virtual BT serial port on your phone if your BT stack doesn't support it, which has been shown to fix issues with Treo's that can't export phonebooks and call logs over BT. But alas, Jetware Mobile is only for Windows Mobile right now.

As long as I can do hands free talking and have the few numbers I call all the time on the screen I'll be happy. The phone book feature and call log is handy, but honestly for me the biggest thing would be handsfree answer and hang up and dialing from the screen in the car.

Sounds to me like my wife should warm up the oven and get to baking.

You'll still be able to manually enter your contacts into CF and save them too, even if it can't grab them from your phone.

Originally Posted by nasa

Hi,

I noticed all the talk (and examples) revolve around 1.1 dongles -- does this matter? Will a 2.0 dongle work?

BTW: I am ready to in anticipation of a working solution.


Nasa

Have tested Dlink 1.1 and 2.0 DBT-120 successfully.

Holy SH%T David and Scott will you release this already!! We're all about to explode!!