OK. This is pretty simple. Just write what F-series unit you have, what phone you have, how it works (how easy it is to connect, phonebook transfer, sound quality, etc.), and any other pertinent information you may have so that we have a one stop reference for anybody who needs it. Just copy and fill in this info:

 

F-series model:

Phone make/model:

Ease of connection:

Phone book transfer:

Sound quality:

Comments:

 

Also, try to leave out any of the bugs related to the operation of the F-series unit that are clearly not phone specific, like only being able to use voice recognition to call people by phone number and not name, and the staticy audio on the receiving end during calls. This is more or less to help people out when looking to see if a specific phone works with their unit, not to see how the unit's bluetooth works overall.

 

 

F-series model: 900

Phone make/model: TMobile Dash (HTC WM6)

Ease of connection: Very

Phone book transfer: Not very intuitive, but it worked finally.

Sound quality: Great for a bluetooth device

Comments: Pretty sure I had to enable the serial port profile for the avic on the phone before it would transfer the phonebook.

F-series model: 700BT

Phone make/model: Verizon Motorola Q

Ease of connection: Easy

Phone book transfer: Took <5 minutes for 100 contacts

Sound quality: Decent, the phone is 2+ years old though

Comments: Really simple to do the first time and nav recognizes phone about 1 min after full boot up

F-series model:700bt

Phone make/model: BB 8830

Ease of connection: Good, but had one instance where it kept saying "connection failed" and would keep trying over and over

Phone book transfer: Perfect

Sound quality: Horrid so far, but have only done 2 calls. Calling my VM sounds fine though (listening to other party)

Comments: The BT connection worked great in my old car with built-in BT, this one hopefully gets better as the person on other end cannot understand me

F-series model:90BT

Phone make/model: LG CU720 aka Shine

Ease of connection: OK. Took a few attempts to find n connect but it's connected finally.

Phone book transfer: Tedious. Had to manually one at a time "send vCard via bluetooth" and then connect to the F90BT and transfer phone book. Process took roughly 30min for 60 contacts.

Sound quality: Person came in clear and strong. I spoke normally and they said it sounded 80% clear. They could hear me fine but could tell the phone wasn't on my ear and I was using some device to talk to them.

Comments: Glad it's working. I'd like to be able to customize, edit, delete contacts from within the actual unit. Firmware update..

F-series model:90BT

Phone make/model: Verizon SMT5800 (HTC or UTStarcom I think)

Ease of connection: Easy

Phone book transfer: Wouldn't transfer until I used 3rd party app demo.

http://www.jetwaremobile.com/

Sound quality: My end sounds perfect every time. Other person's end sounds horrible. Electronic type static, LOTS of background noise.

Comments: I hope this is easily fixable. The integrated BT was a big selling point for me.

EDIT: One more thing, voice dialing using the contact name barely works if it all. Speaking the actual numbers works every time.

F-series model: F900-BT

Phone make/model: iPhone 1.1.3 firmware

Ease of connection: Easy

Phone book transfer: Can't figure it out, some say it's not possible

Sound quality: unfortunately UNUSABLE!

Comments: Hope they can fix this quickly!

F-series model: f90bt

Phone make/model: Samsung M300

Ease of connection: A little tricky. The unit could find the phone, but couldn't connect. I had connect via the phone instead of the head unit. Might have been user error.

Phone book transfer: The instructions were confusing on the F90. I had to hit OK farther than I thought they were saying. But, after that, it was pretty quick.

Sound quality: Great through the speakers

Comments: Pretty easy to set up. I never used a bluetooth device before, and it didn't take me long to set up. I have to remember to turn off Bluetooth on my phone when I have a passanger or I am a passanger. Don't want other peope listening to my phone calls. lol.

F-series model:F700BT

Phone make/model: Samsung SGH-D820

Ease of connection: Very

Phone book transfer: Took me quite a while just to figure out what I was supposed to do. Hardest part was figuring out how to get the phone to send the info. First time I figured it out, it would send the the info, but the unit said downloading failed. After turning the car off then back on again, it got all the info, however, when I clicked on a contact, nothing would happen. Again, turned it off and on again, and now it works flawlessly.

Sound quality: Great on my end, sometimes fine on the other, sometimes nasally, sometimes you can't even hear me over the static/etc.

Comments: Have yet to receive an sms message to see if that works. Wasn't all that intuitive figuring out how to make things work, but in the end, it wasn't that difficult.

F-series model: F700BT

Phone make/model: Samsung BlackJack

Ease of connection: Very

Phone book transfer: Didn't work. Asked for me to send a "Business Card". Tried to, but the phone wouldn't connect. When I pressed OK, it started to do something, then gave an error message like "No Phone Number". Wife's Motorola downloaded with no problem.

Sound quality: Great to listen to on my end. Wife says it comes through too loud on her end - so she asks me to speaker softer.

Comments: I can dial calls with the navigator or the Blackjack & it works great - just can't use the Contact List function.

F-series model: F700BT

 

Phone make/model: Samsung T519 Trace

 

Ease of connection: Moderate. Had to try a few times. Had to turn on bluetooth visibility on my phone and leave it on or it won't connect automatically when I get into the car.

 

Phone book transfer: Partial. Looks like it transfered the names but no numbers. When I select a contact it doesn't do anything. Might be related to dialing issue below.

 

Sound quality: Good on my end, bad for the other party. After adjusting the mic for an optimal position (the close edge of the sun visor), the sound on their end is just tolerable at speed.

 

Comments: Will not initiate calls from the unit. It worked once or twice, but now just hangs where it is supposed to dial. Have had it fail to mute the music once or twice when dialing.

HiFiSi, shouldnt location of microphone be taken into account?? just a thought..

 

F-series model: F700BT

Phone make/model: Verizon LG Env

Ease of connection: Very easy

Phone book transfer: Not a problem

Sound quality: Horrible

Comments: it didnt work too well for me with the z3 either, could just be my mic placement (fitted into the dash about an inch from the bottom of the unit.)

F-Series (F-700BT)

Phone= Motorola R6 slider

Ease of connection=Kinda slow but connect without a problem

Phone book transfer=Kinda slow but no problems (Only have to do it once though)

Sound Quality= have yet to use it and test it out (edit 7-2-08 Sound Quality was horrible, the guy laughed at me on the phone and saying"Man, i cant hear you!)<-keep in mind i was going 75mph.

F-series model: 900

Phone make/model: Samsung SCH-I760

Ease of connection: worked fist time

Phone book transfer: worked second time

Sound quality: 8 out of 10

Comments: after paying big for the worthless D3 bluetooth module, I was skeptical. On the D3, I tried three different phones and none worked well. The Mic quality was decent, but since it didn't work with any phones, who cares!

Now with the F, I have my entire phone book right there. THe auto-connect works perfect! And best of all, its built in! No $200 add-on! I put the mic right above the visor in my GMC. That might be why my quality seems to be better than most.

F-series model: F900BT

Phone make/model: SANYO KATANA (OLDER MODEL) 2 YRS OLD SPRINT

Ease of connection: EASY

Phone book transfer: < 3MIN 100+ CONTACTS

Sound quality: FAIR

Comments: MAKE SURE PHONE IS SEARCHING AT THE SAME TIME AS THE UNIT.

F-series model: f90bt

Phone make/model: Blackberry pearl

Ease of connection: does not connect automatically all the time, sometimes have to tell the blackberry to connect with device. If I tell the f90 to connect with the phone it will connect, then drop after a few seconds.

Phone book transfer: No problem, but does not recognize voice commands. Example: "Call Mom"

Sound quality:Ok considering I don't have the quietest cabin. If i am on the freeway people say it sounds like a wind tunnel.

Comments: I am lucky that i live in a state that still allows you to operate a handset while driving.

 

 

F-series model:f90bt

Phone make/model:env2

Ease of connection:Always connects, no problem

Phone book transfer: Have not tried yet, already have blackberry contacts in there and this is my girlfriends phone.

Sound quality: Ok considering.

Comments: Considering my cabin conditions, the F90 should have noise reduction software.

F-series model: F900BT

 

Phone make/model: Palm Treo 755p

 

Ease of connection: Complicated... appears to fail but after a restart it connects

 

Phone book transfer: Not tested yet

 

Sound quality: Good on my end but popping sounds on the remote end

 

Comments: I was messing with bluetooth while sitting in traffic on my way home this evening. I had the F900BT try to find the Treo and it did see it as a bluetooth device it could connect to and when I attempted to pair the two the code screen would show up on the Treo and I would put in 1111. On the F900BT it would show as connecting but eventually say connection failed. When I tried to pair from the Treo using the hands-free setup, it would find the F900BT and prompt for a code and I would enter 1111 on the phone and then it would appear to be connected on the phone but the F900BT would just remain on a screen saying waiting to connect. After about 5 minutes I eventually got tired of waiting for it to connect or timeout so I just hit the map button and went about my drive. When I stopped for gas I stopped the engine. When I restarted the engine, the F900BT rebooted of course. After about maybe 2 minutes, maybe less... I wasn't really timing it, all of a sudden the bluetooth light lit up on the unit and it said 'phone connected' or whatever on the screen. I was surprised! I was able to make a call and it worked. I was told that there sounded like a lot of popping noises though from my end of the call. I have not tried to copy addresses over yet. I still have a few things to try out. I do know for a fact that when an SMS message comes into the phone a notification does NOT show up on the screen.

F-series model: F-900BT

Phone make/model: Motorola Razor v3

Ease of connection: Great, works every time. It takes longer sometimes than other

Phone book transfer: Great, first try and it worked, no issues.

Sound quality: Ok. It is good on my end hearing others. On the other end, it seems worse than my old Parrot unit but not that bad. It sometimes has trouble when making a call and hanging up from my phone and quickly making another call.

Comments: I feel this set up is quite usable but still lacks compared to my standalone unit. I may actually reinstall it and have them both on and see when and if the bugs get worked out, if my standalone one is better. I find it hard to depend on, this would be fine for the average person but i am on the phone constantly so it's just not quite good enough.

F-series model:900bt

Phone make/model: BB 8100

Ease of connection: First time - connection failed a bunch of times - then a minute later it has stayed connected - been fine for 1 week.

Phone book transfer: Perfect

Sound quality: Sometimes -the sound is great - others say they hear echo when they talk. Sometimes I've heard my voice through the speakers.

Comments: Very happy it recognized my phone and downloaded my phone book w/o any issues.

F-series model: f90bt

Phone make/model: iphone

Ease of connection: Connects in about 1 minute. Always connects also which is nice.

Phone book transfer: Very easy, pressed one button and all my contacts transfered in about 5 min. It stores them so I only had to do this once.

Sound quality: I think its perfect. The people on the other line say the same thing, they cant even tell that I'm on a speaker phone. I've even been able to use it with the windows down going at a pretty reasonable speed.

Comments: Overall I think the bluetooth works really well and is a pretty cool feature. Sorry to hear about some of the problems with the other units.

F-series model: F900BT

 

Phone make/model: Palm Treo 800w

 

Ease of connection: Simple

 

Phone book transfer: Either send each contact you want from the phone or the unit will grab ALL contacts

 

Sound quality: Good on my end but popping sounds on the remote end

 

Comments: From what I've seen so far the Treo 800w pairs with the F900BT very easily. When I first established the connection on my phone I got a popup message saying that a remote system would like to access your contacts - Allow or Disallow? Once I allow I then get a message on the F900BT telling me to send individual contacts from my phone or press ok to have all contacts downloaded.

F-series model: F700BT (tested w/ store demo at Circuit City)

 

Phone make/model: Palm Treo 700p

 

Ease of connection: Simple (from Pioneer side) I was amazed, this is the first Pioneer unit I've been able to connect with from my Treo 700P. Perhaps this is due to Parrot, but I've had trouble connecting to stand alone Parrot units.

 

Phone book transfer: I was a little paranoid to have my whole address book go into the store demo unit, but tried one contact and it transferred all my speed dial contacts. ???? I found this encouraging, however, and figure, with more time with the unit, I could figure out how to get the rest of my address book into it.

 

Sound quality: Good,...at least receiving over the store speakers connected to the unit. I only called my voicemail though, so don't know about quality from a receiving phone. I'll go back and try some calls.

 

Comments: I was very encouraged because I've been having so much trouble getting the Treo 700P to connect to ANYTHING. But this was a very limited trial and not in actual use in the car. I turned the unit off, but the Bluetooth connection stayed on and another call to my voicemail activated the call screen again. I wanted to power the whole unit down, to simulate turning the ignition off and back on...but could't figure out how to do this on the store unit.

 

Now can I live with the long boot up time everyone complains about....???

F-series model: F900BT

Phone make/model: iPhone 3G

Ease of connection: Somewhat simple

Phone book transfer: Very Easy

Sound quality: Pretty clear (since firmware update)

Comments:

1. It is easiest to pair to unit using 'Pair from phone/device' on F-series and then go into Bluetooth menu on iPhone so it becomes discoverable; after that it should pair immediately.

2. Contacts transfer and show up as names in contact list (but if a contact has multiple numbers e.g. home, mobile, work, etc. they do not show up as such, only name is shown, quite annoying) and work by contact name using voice command, but when receiving a call from a stored contact only the number is shown and not the name.

F-series model: F700BT

Phone make/model: SonyEricsson w610i

Ease of connection: Very easy

Phone book transfer: Transfering all didn't work, so I tried to send just the two or three I wanted; that ended up sending all?!

Sound quality: Seems ok, though I still prefer the wired headset for sound quality

 

Comments: How in the heck do you edit or delete contacts? Is it true that you can only delete all at once? Who at Pioneer thought that was a good idea?

F series: F900BT

Phone Model: Verizon Motorola K1m krzr

Phone book transfer: all transferred 1st try

Sound Quality: Good, needs the volume turned up fully to be heard

Contacts: some contacts changed phone number type ("home" changed to "general")