Hi Guys, At last, IT HAS ARRIVED.... New Vrs!!!! ordered first week in september............. took ownership 15th January, it was worth it.. more than the 9 month wait for both my kids, Ha Ha only joking! (Dont tell my Missus i said that)

anyway, going away first thing in the morning and cant get iphone to connect to factory fit bluetooth, they told me it would be compatible! cant find a post to give a definite yes or no answer to the problem, any of you guys have an answer or know of a post to help

cheers boys & Girls

Edited 16 January, 201016 yr by NHKCHEF

I couldnt find a definition for this that was trustworthy so haven't ordered the factory bluetooth. I figure I have either saved myself £480 or will end up forever wishing I had spent it. There are lots of threads on blue-tooth so have a good read around. The factory kit is supposed to be from a manufacturer called Novero (ex Nokia group) who also make the kit that goes in most other VW cars apparently but the user experience is not the same across all. I am getting an aftermarket (Fiscon) kit when I get my hands on the car.

I am getting an aftermarket (Fiscon) kit when I get my hands on the car.

No use to the OP but my Fiscon unit works perfectly with my iPhone 3G.

The only catch is that you can't access the contacts list on the phone. That is not a problem for me because I have most of my contacts (all the ones I'd actually want to ring anyway) on the SIM card and they are accessible.

No use to the OP but my Fiscon unit works perfectly with my iPhone 3G.

The only catch is that you can't access the contacts list on the phone. That is not a problem for me because I have most of my contacts (all the ones I'd actually want to ring anyway) on the SIM card and they are accessible.

I had a Fiscon unit fitted to my VRs this morning and all my phone contacts are copied to the car from my iphone 3g. Just as well, I don't save contacts on the SIM...

The BT stack apple use isnt a good one - everyone is agreed on that. There is also talk on the net that one of the area's of the Nokia patent suit is Apple trying to get around paying Nokia by excluding their part of the Bluetooth partnership's proprietry stuff. However anyone that has listed the patents concerned on either side seems to have pulled the info very quickly. Legal cease & desists flying round?

Not sure if this is true or not , but would explain why the iphone is so handicapped with bluetooth connections.

From looking into it as much as I could before placing my order, if you get the GSM III the iPhone doesn't work as it wants the GSM III uses the rsap profile.

The older GSM II will work with most phones as it's more of a standard handsfree profile. Not all phones support rsap which is why when I saw that in the brochure I didn't tick the box and was going to get a Parrot kit fitted til I found out about the Fiscon unit. Really happy with the Fiscon (even if it did cost almost twice as much as a Parrot kit), works like a charm and getting good feedback about the quality of the sound.

I'm sure the GSM III would be even better sound, but as my phone doesn't support rsap it would have been a waste of money or I'd need to swap SIMs round just to use the car kit...

It appears that the FL Octavia gets the GSM III kit even though the manual has instructions for both...

I think iPhones awful bluetooth stack is more to do with Apple locking the phone down than anything else, it took them til OS 3 to support AD2P. I'm pretty certain the chip they use will support most profiles, but as Apple don't allow direct access to the file system they don't support file transfer and I suspect the lack of rsap is along the same sort of lines. Even with a jailbroken phone and third party bluetooth apps it's still not great... Can see me moving to an Android phone when my current contract runs out unless Apple pull something special out of the bag with the next gen iPhone