My Desire works perfectly on my 2011 Octy Estate throught the Bolero.

Shows up on the MFD with phone name, battery power left and signal strength. Just below that I have the Bluetooth connection icon along with the media player icon.

The Bolero displays my phone book and I can stream music directly to it through the BTAudio tab on the top right of the display.

Full compatibility must have come in for 2011?

At poster above - Why are you trying to make direct comparisons with an SLR? It's a camera phone for chist's sake!

And for most non pro's unlike you, the picture quality is completely acceptable.

Lol at iOS being a polished product!

You have to use Itunes for a start!

My Desire works perfectly on my 2011 Octy Estate throught the Bolero.

Shows up on the MFD with phone name, battery power left and signal strength. Just below that I have the Bluetooth connection icon along with the media player icon.

The Bolero displays my phone book and I can stream music directly to it through the BTAudio tab on the top right of the display.

Full compatibility must have come in for 2011?

At poster above - Why are you trying to make direct comparisons with an SLR? It's a camera phone for chist's sake!

And for most non pro's unlike you, the picture quality is completely acceptable.

Skoda have changed the bluetooth module to one that now supports both RSAP and HFP, they did so in around September 2010. If you have the battery strength indicator then you are using HFP mode which still uses your phone to make calls and is therefore dependent on the signal the handset is getting. In RSAP mode the car becomes the phone and uses the aerial on the car roof which gets significantly better signal as its outside the vehicle. For example me and a work colleague went offsite, we both have the same work phones. She had to use my RSAP connected phone as she had no signal on hers at all.

Its £500 Sim free or £35 per month on Vodafone

I seen the Iphone 4 in the o2 shop for just under £600 on pay as you go, who on earth would pay all that for a phone (maybe coming up to 35) I am seeing sense lol But thats serious cash for a phone.

Edited 21 June, 201115 yr by justinbarrow

Stupid prices for an iPhone IMO, can't believe people are so gullible from marketing. Got an Xperia Arc 3 weeks ago, free on a £20/month contract, bloody love it so far. My sad iPhone loving mates were rather quiet for a change when they saw it and had a little play

Skoda have changed the bluetooth module to one that now supports both RSAP and HFP, they did so in around September 2010. If you have the battery strength indicator then you are using HFP mode which still uses your phone to make calls and is therefore dependent on the signal the handset is getting. In RSAP mode the car becomes the phone and uses the aerial on the car roof which gets significantly better signal as its outside the vehicle. For example me and a work colleague went offsite, we both have the same work phones. She had to use my RSAP connected phone as she had no signal on hers at all.

Glad I read this thread... Been thinking about upgrading my ageing Nokia E51 to an HTC Desire HD.

The Nokia works fine with my Yeti (170Tdi Elegance) Bolero/Bluetooth connection. The Yeti was first registered in May 2010 so reading above do I take it that it won't work with the HTC? Is there anyway to upgrade the Bluetooth to the latest version? Is it just a firmware upgrade or does it need new (and presumably expensive) hardware too?

OK....I have an HTC Desire HD....didn't work with the original BT kit (NO 035 730 C), so after reading the forum...bought a (D) version from ebay for £110 and it now works on HFP perfectly. In fact, the BT media streaming also works! Which is bonus.

So....no firmware updates, no messing about with the columbus system, just plug and play.

Sweet!

:-)

What must have, easy to configure and use features is it that the iPhone doesn't have and the Desire does?

My Desire works perfectly on my 2011 Octy Estate throught the Bolero.

Shows up on the MFD with phone name, battery power left and signal strength. Just below that I have the Bluetooth connection icon along with the media player icon.

The Bolero displays my phone book and I can stream music directly to it through the BTAudio tab on the top right of the display.

I'm just about to the end of my HTC Desire contract and have recently been trying both the iPhone 3GS and iPhone 4 to see how I like them.

Whilst they have a lot going for them I'm afraid I'll not be looking outside the Android camp as both of them seem unable to do one particular thing that the Desire can.

Now I know this really isn't anything to do with Skoda's but when I have the Desire connected up to the BMW it will show the colour contact photo on the inbuilt car display as well as the other normal contact details. I just presumed it was something new to do with the bluetooth connectivity but as the iPhone 4 is newer than the Desire, it seems that particular option has been omitted by Apple.

Come to think of it - I don't think the music streaming worked either but I'd have to confirm that as I may not have had any music on at the time of testing.

Rock On Android - at least until the iPhone 5 trundles along!

I've just got a Samsung Galaxy S II and love it.

I've just got a Samsung Galaxy S II and love it.

What an absolutely gorgeous screen that has.

I've just thought of another gripe I've got with the iPhone - the lack of decent customisable ringtones, email & sms notifications that are LOUD enough.

BlackBerry are Launching 3 new "Torch" series phones - 1 with the keypad as current 9800 and two which are full touch screens - these maybe of interest, depending on what you want to do with your phone... my BB torch outperforms my iPhone 3Gs, but i'm mainly a business user...

Al.