Hi.
If you can spare the time to read this and post a reply it would really help a ?Senior? out!
I am soon to get my pension and am not really into high tech equipment, I have a Nokia ASHA300 phone on Orange PAYG as I make very few calls and it did all that I needed, until we recently bought a Toyota Avensis with a multifunction satnav and phone system. It seems that in order to use the system to its full I need to have a Smartphone with Wi-Fi so that the car can connect through the phone to Toyota in order to download/update various functions. The car at present shows all my phonebook contacts but does not seem to be able to discover any addresses.
The satnav uses the phonebook for destination address details, If I have Auntie Mary and her address is in my smartphone phonebook I can select Auntie Mary as a destination from the phonebook, but I cannot save Auntie Mary as destination in the satnav, there I can only seem to enter her address or postcode and I would rather say let?s visit Auntie Mary than say let?s visit CH23 9QX!
So I need a basic smartphone that I can easily enter addresses that the car will accept (See requirements), preferably via my PC used as a database as I can with the Nokia PC Suite.
I would like to have GPS navigation and to be able to enter a FULL Post Code for when we go walking.
We have BTinternet so assume we can use Wi-Fi BT hotspots free of charge while out? Then use our home hub for the car updates when at home.
It should be sim free or on Orange and take a normal sim card.
I do not need twitter or facebook.
I cannot think of any additional apps I might want at the moment but that will probably change later!
I note the battery is not ?removable? on the N4, does this mean when the battery fails you will have to bin the phone?
The suggested requirements in the cars manual are as follows:
Bluetooth ver 2.1 + EDR or higher
HPF (Hands free profile) Ver 1 or 1.5 recommended.
DUN (Dial-Up Networking profile) Ver 1.1 or higher
PAN (Personal Network Area) Ver 1.0
PBAP (Phone book access profile) Ver 1.0 or higher
MAP (Message access profile)
Application:
PIM (Personal information manager)
There are a bewildering range of phones out there but in shops they do not have many to try functionality and staff are really only interested in selling you a ?contract?. From the requirements list above is there is a better alternative to the N4 or one that is cheaper? My budget is around the ?250 mark.
Best regards
Alan.
If you can spare the time to read this and post a reply it would really help a ?Senior? out!
I am soon to get my pension and am not really into high tech equipment, I have a Nokia ASHA300 phone on Orange PAYG as I make very few calls and it did all that I needed, until we recently bought a Toyota Avensis with a multifunction satnav and phone system. It seems that in order to use the system to its full I need to have a Smartphone with Wi-Fi so that the car can connect through the phone to Toyota in order to download/update various functions. The car at present shows all my phonebook contacts but does not seem to be able to discover any addresses.
The satnav uses the phonebook for destination address details, If I have Auntie Mary and her address is in my smartphone phonebook I can select Auntie Mary as a destination from the phonebook, but I cannot save Auntie Mary as destination in the satnav, there I can only seem to enter her address or postcode and I would rather say let?s visit Auntie Mary than say let?s visit CH23 9QX!
So I need a basic smartphone that I can easily enter addresses that the car will accept (See requirements), preferably via my PC used as a database as I can with the Nokia PC Suite.
I would like to have GPS navigation and to be able to enter a FULL Post Code for when we go walking.
We have BTinternet so assume we can use Wi-Fi BT hotspots free of charge while out? Then use our home hub for the car updates when at home.
It should be sim free or on Orange and take a normal sim card.
I do not need twitter or facebook.
I cannot think of any additional apps I might want at the moment but that will probably change later!
I note the battery is not ?removable? on the N4, does this mean when the battery fails you will have to bin the phone?
The suggested requirements in the cars manual are as follows:
Bluetooth ver 2.1 + EDR or higher
HPF (Hands free profile) Ver 1 or 1.5 recommended.
DUN (Dial-Up Networking profile) Ver 1.1 or higher
PAN (Personal Network Area) Ver 1.0
PBAP (Phone book access profile) Ver 1.0 or higher
MAP (Message access profile)
Application:
PIM (Personal information manager)
There are a bewildering range of phones out there but in shops they do not have many to try functionality and staff are really only interested in selling you a ?contract?. From the requirements list above is there is a better alternative to the N4 or one that is cheaper? My budget is around the ?250 mark.
Best regards
Alan.