Can i use the bluetooth facility on my car with iPhone?

Bluetooth is a wireless technology standard for exchanging data over short distances (using short wavelength radio transmissions) from fixed and mobile devices

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http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/archive/1016129

Beloved.

Can I do it or not?


If not, I don't need the details.


I have a lot to do with my remaining brain....I can't waste it on dead ends.

Yes.
The consensus seems to be that Iphone Bluetooth is for hands free headsets only.
This vid adequately describes how to find bluetooth settings. (The vid stops aand starts a bit)
http://yacast.dailymotion.com/video/xa0251_bluetooth-connectivity-tutorial-app_tech

Doubtfull but insufficent info provided.
need tech specs for the car.

Short answer... probably not. I think the iPhone only does BlueTooth as a mechanism for working with headsets, not playing music over the connection.

However, I think BlueTooth could be used for music if they wanted to program the iPhone that way, so it might be something which will be possible in future versions.

I found step by step instructions for pairing the iPhone bluetooth with a Prius. Not sure what model your car is, but it might work similarly?

http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-19512_7-10114971-233.html

I have my iPhone synced in the truck, it works with the bluetooth thingy, and I use the handfree for phone calls. When i play music I though, I still use the cord. I'll have to check to see if it will work without it, I hadn't even contemplated not using the cord, hmmmm.

There's one definitive way to find out. Try it.

Read this:

http://www.tuaw.com/2009/04/02/streaming-iphone-via-bluetooth-in-the-car/

looks like you can

Thanks all....a cord doesn't bother me!!!

One of the cords supplied definitely won't connect.

I'll have to see if the other one does.

Daihatsu Getz, 2007.

You sure can with an iPhone 3...mine's the original.

Worth a shot! Though suspect my car is to a Prius as a toy car is to my car.

Bluetooth is just a data protocol so it depends what you want to do with it.

The original iPhone can't do the A2DP protocol (this is for stereo audio streaming, or music over bluetooth) so you would need an attachment (i.e. a bluetooth transmitter that plugs into headphone jack). But your car may support simpler bluetooth "headset" functionality (basically to answer calls) and this limited functionality is something I would suspect you could get working.

As for listening to music I would recommend against wireless means as the audio quality is pretty bad. I still like it for the convenience sometimes (I have all sorts of bluetooth audio gadgets) but the music "skips" and stutters every now and then on them all. You can get an FM transmitter and that is also a pretty bad experience in a lot of places (with lots of radio signals).

There are audio receivers (the music player in your car) that have aux in jacks, they basically look like headphone jacks but if yours has that then just getting a male to male 3.5mm cord is all you need. Most other ways are not worth it IMO.

some cars these days have a USB. I'm not sure that a 2007 model would have.
The port(s) i have seen are usually located on the radio someplace.
You can downlaod your music to am mp3 player and plug it in to that port.
My car doesnt have anywhere to plug anything in. Its a ford focus 2009.
no headphone jack or usb port.

I have two cords in the car....one is a usb cord but it wouldn't fit my phone...the other looks, indeed, like two headphone connectors.

I guess I'll see if I have a hole to stick it in, and if the other fits my phone and see what happens?

Fancy stuff like wireless doesn't matter to me.

I think it's fabulously amazing to have a CD player in the car.

The USB input on most auto audio receivers is for USB thumb drives. You basically have mp3s (at least, some also play formats like iTunes and .wma as well) on a USB drive and it will play them. It usually won't read from an iphone unless the receiver has firmware to do so (and if so they usually advertise it). So USB is out, unless you want to copy your files to a USB drive.

As for the headphone jack looking ones, if one says something like "audio in" or "aux" (auxiliary input or variant) then it will accept any audio. You just plug a male to male 3.55 mm cord (the same kind as a standard headphone jack but with the male on both ends) into the iphone and into the auto audio receiver.

The iPhones folk seem to think it will work with the jack.

I'll have a go next time I get in the car.

And we have MUSIC!