Today I spoke with Hugo at Mercedes Benz of Ft Lauderdale parts department regarding Bluetooth. He said retrofit kit is coming February 2006 and it will work with my C230SS.. He had no pricing info and I assume it will properly integrate with our phone buttons on our steering wheels. I am relieved because I have the Motorola bluetooth kit currently and it is imperfect in that road noise makes the speaker difficult to hear. I had it professionally installed consistent with commonly suggested positioning of the components.

 

So does this mean that if you have this bluetooth retrofit kit, and a bluetooth equipped cell phone that we could use the phone controls in the benz?
I don't like the idea of paying 1 large to have the aftermarket one installed just to use my phone over the cars system!

Mike

 

This will work for all blue tooth comptable phones correct?

 

it had better because MB's competitors with bluetooth don't require special phones... if this requires a special MB bluetooth phone that will be a big mistake for MB.

 

pretty much, except if you have a treo, sometimes that thing isn't compatible with a lot of BT things (even with the new update).

and this is but, your sig is hott!

 

I dont know what the details are regarding the functionality of the new bluetooth kit. I was told it will be fully integrated. Will it allow full operation of the phone without touching the handset like in an Audi A6? I can only hope.
Will it be compatible with the most popular bluetooth cell phones? Again I can only hope. It would seem like a waste of development money to make a product incompatible with the most popular phones such as treo. blackberry, motorola etc. Is it a retrofit kit for previous models? Thats what they said.

 

Thanks Jay, and keep us posted if you can! Now I just wonder what that llittle gem of a kit will cost?

 

only if you have command...
I have a A6 and the MMI is great

 

Blue Tooth would be great.

I agree

 

When you say "previous models" is that on 05+ models or 01+ models?

 

The parts manager said it would be compatible with "previous models" whatever that means....

 

Thanks my friend made it for me after we did a lil photo shoot!

 

I just wanted to check in to see what everyone that has UHI is using as far as the phone goes.

My Nextel contract is up in 15 days and I am dumping to go to Cingular. I had originally had my eye on the Sony T637, but after thinking I don't really need all the features on that phone and most others.

What is the best UHI compatible no frills phone? Just looking for some pros and cons on phones that other members are currently using with UHI. Also, the phone will stay in the cradle most of the time.

Thanks.

 

im waiting for the UHI bluetooth dongle so i can get rid of this ****ty T637 and get a cool nokia.

 

I allready have the nokia, only missing the UHI BT kit
About the UHI BT kit, any news about it???
I hope it works well on my phone (6680) my fathers AUDI MMI doesn't like it too much, I think its because of the symbian software on the phone, to modern for the MMI

 

OK, so the 637 was a bad choice huh? Doesn't it have bluetooh though? What don't you like about it?

 

I was thinking of using of Scorchie / Dean's recommended phones:
Nokia 6200/6220/6230

but that list was put out over a year ago, and figure these phones are ancient history.
Don't know if there is a new list of UHI/PSE compatible phones out there, from MBenzNL.

 

Wanda pointed me Here for the most current phones. This was current as of 10/05.

 

Thanks John !!!

 

anything is better than the T637. a styrfoam cup with a string attached is better than that POS. i hate it!

 

UHI in 2005 C-Class works extremely well with voice control.

 

UHI in my 2003 with Voice Control works extremely well also. I hate the phone, its a POS. Crappy features, ****ty camera, no speaker phone, etc. I'm not dissing the UHI or Linguatronic, I hate my phone and i want a new one. im waiting for the Bluetooth dongle so i wont have to keep getting a new cradle.

 

*bump for a status report*

 

I just spoke with someone at wireless4mb.com and got the information on the new Bluetooth Adapter. (Click on Handsfree Communication)

* You will need the Mercedes MHI Handsfree system installed to use the Bluetooth adapter. This is $765 (+ labor as most of you know).
* Bluetooth adapter costs $350.00.
* It slides into the MHI dock (center armrest).
* It only works with certain bluetooth phones -- in other words, you still need the proprietary software/MB phones to make it work.
* You have more phone options. I was told there is a Motorola Razr (silver) that will work with this Bluetooth kit. It is only $300 or so. So, at least the phones have come down in price.

This is what I was told over the phone, so if any of this information is inaccurate, I apologize.

 

Having to have your car wired for a phone kinda defeats teh purpose of having Bluetoof doesn't it?