Cheap BT phone for sending phonebook?

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(aaf709 @ Aug 31 2006, 01:47 PM) [snapback]312264[/snapback]</div>

a gsm motorola? v5xx? check out http://www.phonescoop.com
you can select models that have bluetooth..
or a sony ericsson t68i works too, i believe.. that should be cheap-o

also, you can get a phone from amp'd (e816) currently $150 on prepaid on www.ampd.com and modify it so that it works on verizon (by flashing to another carrier's firmware) and have it work to transfer contacts (OPP) to your Prius... for more info see:

http://motorola.szczuka.org/Hollywood_VZW_Bell.html
http://howardforums.com/showthread.php?t=936923

This amp'd phone is exactly the same as what VZW markets as an E815, which is one of the best in reception that VZW offers. The only difference is that it comes with amp'd firmware, and the fact that you can flash it with the Bell firmware to enable Java, the bluetooth Object Push Profile (OPP), etc.

With the Sony Ericsson t68i, I believe you can do the transfer of multiple contacts at once, unlike the other two choices, in which case you'll have to transfer them 1 by 1

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(luiset83 @ Sep 3 2006, 12:44 AM) [snapback]313368[/snapback]</div>

I have an E815, hacked to an E815M, but it still won't do a transfer. I picked up a Sony Ericcson T68i and it works perfectly - transfers the entire phone book. If it's not included, you will have to also buy a smart chip, with a phone number (about $10.00) to make the phone work.

I use Susteen's Data Pilot to collect make the transfer from my E815 to the t68i. The Susteen cables will also allow the E815 to talk to Motorola Phone tools.

 

Just bought a used ATT Sony Ericson T68i on Ebay, $22 or something like that.

Wow, it works great.

I've got Verizon service and a Motorola E815, which works great for phone calls but of course no phone book transfer. So I got the T68i.

Transferred my Motorola phone book to my laptop using the Motorola Phone Tools I bought a while back. Sync'd to Outlook.

Then sync'd the T68i to Outlook.

Then transferred the phonebook from the T68i to the Prius.

Works really well. I think there's a lot of improvements in the '06 over previous years. Every phone number for a name imports (home, work, cell). Upper and lower case text. About 15 characters in the name.

Cool. Too bad it took so many totally un-necessary steps to get there.

I wish all the VP's and accountants and lawyers would bugger off, and let the engineers do what they're capable of. Verizon, and DirecTV, too.