Voice Dialing

[bfi2906]

Is anyone with an 09 spec car, without any nav, able to tell me whether you can use voice dialing with the standard bluetooth preperation that comes with Oz spec cars?

I'm trying to work out whether it's only available with nav, or whether it's a standard feature.

I don't know how it works on the 1er, but on my e46, you press and hold one of the buttons on the left side of the steering wheel (I think it's the one at the bottom right of the group). The car beeps, and you say something like "dial name", "dial number", or "save name", etc -- and it would do as you asked (most of the time).

Thanks,
B.

[Blacky]

Don't know about current 1'er but I have a 06 130 and voice dialing with bluetooth is standard and similar to your suggestion.

['fatboy']

Originally Posted by bfi2906

Is anyone with an 09 spec car, without any nav, able to tell me whether you can use voice dialing with the standard bluetooth preperation that comes with Oz spec cars?

I'm trying to work out whether it's only available with nav, or whether it's a standard feature.

I don't know how it works on the 1er, but on my e46, you press and hold one of the buttons on the left side of the steering wheel (I think it's the one at the bottom right of the group). The car beeps, and you say something like "dial name", "dial number", or "save name", etc -- and it would do as you asked (most of the time).

Thanks,
B.

I have an 09 spec without nav and voice dialling works (std feature). it works as you describe it. Hold down the button (little phone symbol) on the steering wheel and then talk once the speakers beep.

[bfi2906]

that's good news - thanks folks

[Guran]

Same deal with the 08 build. I had a bit of fun recently playing the the voice dial. Takes some time to set it up though.

[Zuzu]

I found the voice dial to be a pain in the

[bfi2906]

Good to know that it works the same, and that BMW has done nothing to improve or simplify it from my '04 e46 to the latest model.

I guess they're in the car business, not the phone or software business.

Oh, hang on - it's software that controls most of the car these days. Maybe they do know something about software.

Perhaps at some stage, BMW might consider implementing a standard bluetooth stack.

BMW ----- meet Microsoft and Broadcom. Perhaps a conversation could be useful. They only control 90% of the bluetooth market. And as such, they are only the most common bluetooth implemetations in the world.

And somehow, by shear magic, they manage to get a pretty flakey technology to work on quite a lot of devices - headsets, cars, printers, etc, etc, etc.

Oh! And providing cradles and getting the car to work with 4 phones, none of which are new, and some of which stopped being sold 12 month ago, is not something to be proud of - it's an embarrassment

[GR3G]

Originally Posted by Zuzu

I found the voice dial to be a pain in the

Agreed!! I’ve just resorted to using the buttons on the dash to type a number or through the recently dialled lists