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The Nokia CK-1W is installed in the car - in about 45 minutes. Yesterday I got it hooked up - professional installation that activates the system when you're driving - and it senses a bluetooth phone. Got a new Cingular wireless Sony Ericsson T-616 phone. Sweet combination. Takes a little getting used to, but the speaker is mounted under the dash, the control button - we mounted on the dash just inside of the radio's "On" button. Microphone on the driver side front window column. Works like a charm - using your regular cell phone and then activating the blue tooth to use the Nokia system. Need a blue tooth enabled system to make it work....but I'm sure road warriors have had this figured out long ago. Great technology. Voice dialing and answering using the button on the dash - which also serves as a volume control, and the phone handles a LOT of functions - really too many. For a while it got confused between "Profiles" and "Types" - since they have contact locations for "Home", "Work", "Mobile", and other....as well as profiles that seem to go by the same name. Have to turn Voice Profiles off. Web-enabling is fine, but the photo thing is a bit of over-kill. Kind of hard to get a blue-tooth phone without these features at this point, however. Sony Ericsson website suggests that this will be changing soon. And I do plan to use my Jabra blue tooth headset for other hands free places: bike riding, etc. One solution won't do it all....but one phone is all we really should need.
Problem with OnStar is that GM needs to license it to the wireless companies to service through blue tooth in my view. Most folks already have this connection....and paying an additional monthly fee to another provider is a pain: another bill, another vendor. If Cingular can bundle all this stuff....OnStar could easily become one of the items if they'd reconfigure their technology to be a handsfree system, an emergency dial system, and an RF-free system. Shouldn't take the Delphi guys too long to figure this out.
For my money, the Destinator system that comes with GPS, superior software and uses your PDA is another "better" system - for the map / driving directions function. My PDA is also bluetooth enabled and can do voice....so you can see where this stuff is really headed.
Bottom line, the technology is just moving too fast to hang it on the car as more than a gateway or a "service" offered through the wireless company. PDA's and cell phones are going to always be more current - unless we're going to trade our cars more frequently than I do.
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