m!ck3y

..well I have had my C350 for about two days now, and I love it. I have the P2 package along with the MM and I was told by the sales lady that if I was to sync my phone with the car it would read my text msg's. Now I was not able to get my Iphone to sync to the car while I was at the dealership but I gave ti another go today and was able to make it work. Now when i get text the car dose not read them to me was this a mistake by the sales lady by telling me that there is sucha feature or am I jus tno using it right?

micropower99

They lied. Our cars have no such feature.

maninblack

not flaming all sales people , but sometime they will say or promis anything to make a sale , in your case , they lied

m!ck3y

ok but that would have been real intresting lol. Instead of making another thread I thought I would just ask it here how do you burn the music onto the hard-drive I waas told you can load upto 4 gigs worth..

junkfoodz

one way, burn mp3s to dvd, then save it to your HDD....

xntrek

I don't have mine yet, so can neither confirm nor deny this, however, I heard that you can copy music from an audio CD to the HD, but not MP3s. Having said that, I also heard that you can copy MP3s from the PCMCIA slot to the HD. Not sure how to do either, but hopefully a helpful owner who has done this can shed some light for you.

Ron Jr

Just put a CD in the drive and select record. I have yet to have it label the album or songs correctly.

Ape

I believe this is a feature of the system, just maybe not in the US. I saw a video over the weekend on YouTube where this feature was demonstrated. I can not recall the name of the video, but if you put in "C-class" or "W204" in the search bar on YouTube it should list all of the ones that are related to the car.
I think it was in Europe that the video was filmed in.

m!ck3y

Thanks for all the help guys.

I love driving their cars I give people whip lash as I drive by haha

Nola

Could it be a misunderstranding? Maybe she said "the car will read the SMS" as in it will "read" it from your phone and display it on the MFD or central display?

m!ck3y

could be...but how do i get it to do that? lol

Egonvdv

i thought it does....

no?

xntrek

I seem to remember that with certain phones (e.g. crackberry), this feature is enabled - but only with the HFP module, not "natively".

RLE

Why not drive on down and ask her to demonstrate?

xntrek

oooh, yes! and then when she says "oh, you need the bluetooth HFP cradle, which is $400" you can state that you purchased the car on the understanding that it offered this feature, so she should throw the unit in as a measure of good will

lx Raven xl

In Europe . MB COMAND system has the ability to read text messages. I also get to hear any traffic messages in MB computer voice. It also has the option to enable/disable "read out traffic messages". Never tested the mobile text message system but i do not see why it would not work if the traffic messages can be read.

melbourne tim

I agree. My salesman told me (in Australia) you need to buy the HFP module, which is a few hundred dollars more. I don't have this. My phone works well with bluetooth but I have to enter my own phone directory as it does not import from my phone, and it doens't do text message.

However once you enter your phone directroy, the linguatronic voice activation works beautifully!