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 Posted: Tue Sep 20, 2005 8:50 pm Post subject: tomtom5 upgrade: the option 'call number' does not work |
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please can someone help i have got tomtom5 upgrade in the menu there is an icon which is call number when i try to use it ,it comes up with no phone found on my ipaq pocket pc is there any software i can use or can i get it to connect to my bluetooth phone if you can help please get in touch thankyou  |
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| Posted: Wed Sep 21, 2005 11:41 am Post subject: |
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Hi actionman99,
Funnily enough, I was looking for exactly the same information yesterday, here’s what I found on the TomTom website:
| TomTom support website wrote: | If you get the message 'No phones found' when trying to call a Point of Interest (POI) using TomTom NAVIGATOR 5, then your PDA does not have a build-in telephone function.
Only PDAs with a built-in telephone (like the MDA, XDA, QTEK or iPAQ 6340) can make use of this feature. Even though you can pair a mobile phone to your PDA via Bluetooth, the option 'call number' will not be supported.
You can still look up the phone number of a POI by using the 'browse map' option. Simply browse to the map until you have found the POI you were looking for and select the POI icon. You will then see the name as well as the phone number of this POI. Please note that contact information might not be available for every single POI. |
You can see the actual explanation from TomTom here.
It’s rather annoying, as I’ve just started to update my own POIs with phone numbers. I wanted to test the changes and found that I couldn’t. So unless you have a TomTom GO 500 or 700, or you’re running TomTom Navigator for PocketPC on a MDA, XDA, QTEK or iPAQ 6340 then the call POI function won’t work.
Unless of course anybody knows how to overcome this problem … ;)
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Darren
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| Posted: Wed Sep 21, 2005 1:30 pm Post subject: |
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I'm curious as to what you expected to happen without a PocketPC Phone Edition or a GO with Handsfree capabilities?
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Parky
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| Posted: Wed Sep 21, 2005 1:35 pm Post subject: |
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I suppose the ability to dial the number via Bluetooth, as you can with the option from the contacts menu.
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| Posted: Wed Sep 21, 2005 1:46 pm Post subject: |
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I Hadn't realised you could initiate a call via Bluetooth from contacts! Learn summit new every day 
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| Posted: Wed Sep 21, 2005 2:00 pm Post subject: |
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Well, there you go, the more we think we know, the less we actually do. 
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| Posted: Wed Sep 21, 2005 2:43 pm Post subject: |
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Hi Darren,
| Darren wrote: | | I'm curious as to what you expected to happen without a PocketPC Phone Edition or a GO with Handsfree capabilities? |
| Parky wrote: | | I suppose the ability to dial the number via Bluetooth. |
Parky is spot on. I thought that if I have paired a Bluetooth phone with my PocketPC for TomTom Traffic, then surely I should be able to get the phone to dial the enabled POIs. I realise that I wouldn’t have hands free and that I wouldn’t be able to use my Bluetooth headset but that wasn’t the point – I just wanted to try it and I failed miserably! ;)
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| Posted: Wed Sep 21, 2005 4:12 pm Post subject: |
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| Quote: | | I suppose the ability to dial the number via Bluetooth. |
It is something that is not very well publicised is it????? |
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Darren
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| Posted: Wed Sep 21, 2005 4:21 pm Post subject: |
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In my defence I should add that I use an XDAII or a P910i both of which are phones as well. I wasn't trying to be clever with my enquiry, I simply hadn't realised that you could initiate a call via Bluetooth on a connected mobile from certain apps.
Now that I know this is possible from PocketPC Contacts I can see why you would expect that functionality from the POI.
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| Posted: Wed Sep 21, 2005 4:38 pm Post subject: |
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this thread had livened up my day :D
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Darren
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| Posted: Wed Sep 21, 2005 4:45 pm Post subject: |
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| andy-c1 wrote: | | this thread had livened up my day :D |
How bad is your day!
On an aside, I thought (here I go and make a berk of myself again!!) that WM2005 required persistent storage to be available in the hardware. I didn't think the XDAIIi had that?
And I bet hx4700 users are pi**ed, WM2005 delayed until Summer 06 for them, a nice way to treat your premium users!
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| Posted: Wed Sep 21, 2005 4:58 pm Post subject: |
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| Darren wrote: | | And I bet hx4700 users are pi**ed, WM2005 delayed until Summer 06 for them, a nice way to treat your premium users! |
I missed that! 8O When was that announced?
Yeah, great way to treat your premium users. By the time WM2005 (or should that be WM2006 Q4?) is released my hx4700s will be ancient and superseded.
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Darren
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HP WM2005 Announcement
| Quote: | | This offer will be made available in late Summer 2005 for the hx2000 series. Due to unforeseen extended delays in the availability of a critical 3rd party driver, the upgrade kit for the hx4700 will be available in Spring 2006. |
Considering Summer 2005 is almost gone it's all looking rather bad!
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we wont be getting wm 2005 which i do consider rather bad for a company ,just because they would rather bring out a new product than try get a product working properly ......sounds a bit like another compant i know of ....that tiny company called microsoft
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