Audiovox SMT 5600 / SPV C500 (HTC Typhoon)
Voice dialing & bluetooth question...
I read in an article posted on Howard Forums that Windows Mobile for Smartphones does not support voice dialing via a cordless bluetooth headset...
http://www.howardforums.com/showthread.php?s=&thread ... »
This is what he wrote about the Motorola MPx220:
Since this phone has a Windows Mobile OS does that also mean it would not support voice dialing via a bluetooth headset, a la the same problem as the Moto MPx220......
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http://www.howardforums.com/showthread.php?s=&thread ... »
This is what he wrote about the Motorola MPx220:
BIG PROBLEM!! NO VOICEDIAL FROM A BLUETOOTH HEADSET SUPPORTED!!
MicroSoft say's that this will not be resolved with its bluetooth stack until Mobile 2004... I don't want to wait that long.... Motorola needs to address this somehow, it is just not acceptable with a phone of this type....
Since this phone has a Windows Mobile OS does that also mean it would not support voice dialing via a bluetooth headset, a la the same problem as the Moto MPx220......
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Technically, Windows Mobile 2003 by itself doesn't support Bluetooth Headset Profile or voice dialing. 3rd-party or custom software needs to be added by the manufacturer for both of those.
So if Motorola is using different BT headset-profile software than HTC, anything related to that could be different. And of course it also depends on the voice dialing software, which also could be different.
I do know that this phone doesn't have Windows Mobile 2004. That hasn't even been announced yet...
So if Motorola is using different BT headset-profile software than HTC, anything related to that could be different. And of course it also depends on the voice dialing software, which also could be different.
I do know that this phone doesn't have Windows Mobile 2004. That hasn't even been announced yet...
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Thank you!
I hope this phone DOES support voice dialing via bluetooth headset. If all of this phone's features are implemented & work like they are supposed too, then this phone would be a tour-de-force and easily one of the most impressive & advanced pieces of hardware/software cell phone technology on the market...!!! I am looking for a phone just like this (preferably in a clamshell design though...)
Thanks again. 🙂
I hope this phone DOES support voice dialing via bluetooth headset. If all of this phone's features are implemented & work like they are supposed too, then this phone would be a tour-de-force and easily one of the most impressive & advanced pieces of hardware/software cell phone technology on the market...!!! I am looking for a phone just like this (preferably in a clamshell design though...)
Thanks again. 🙂
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I believe the phone does support bluetooth voice dialing. I have read elsewhere that HTC developed their own bluetooth stack that integrates very well with the phone and does not have any of the problems that Microsoft's bluetooth stack has. The following link points to a review that states that this phone does support bluetooth voice dialing:
http://www.gizmodo.com/archives/orange-spv-c500-firs ... »
http://www.gizmodo.com/archives/orange-spv-c500-firs ... »
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My $0.02:
For the longest time, pretty much all Pocket PCs--from the days when it was just WinCE 2.0 forward--shipped with IBM's ViaVoice or some other free Pocket PC-based voice recognition application. Now of course in those days, the devices didn't have cell phones built into them. ViaVoice appeared as a pack-in with models as late as Pocket PC 2002. My wife's PPC2003 did not have any voice app.
Just recently I tested (and sent back, unfortunately) the HP 6315 with the integrated GSM cell phone. (Got sent back for a number of reasons, I left a review if you're that interested). While going over the 6315, I noted that no voice app came with the unit at all any more.
I did note, however, that Microsoft's new "Voice Command" applic...
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For the longest time, pretty much all Pocket PCs--from the days when it was just WinCE 2.0 forward--shipped with IBM's ViaVoice or some other free Pocket PC-based voice recognition application. Now of course in those days, the devices didn't have cell phones built into them. ViaVoice appeared as a pack-in with models as late as Pocket PC 2002. My wife's PPC2003 did not have any voice app.
Just recently I tested (and sent back, unfortunately) the HP 6315 with the integrated GSM cell phone. (Got sent back for a number of reasons, I left a review if you're that interested). While going over the 6315, I noted that no voice app came with the unit at all any more.
I did note, however, that Microsoft's new "Voice Command" applic...
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Isn't the BT/headset issue related specifically to Smartphone 2003? I've heard that in other forums and have seen it tied to the software rather than the hardware itself.
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Well technically it's both. First of all, BT requires hardware to work; it's not just a software program. There is a chipset and a transceiver that represent the physical implementation of BT. Those have to be integrated into the rest of the phone hardware.
Then there is the software that actually makes it (the BT hardware) go and provide the actual services the hardware manufacturer wishes to provide. Think of this like a PC and Windows: You can have any combination of old to new hardware and old to new versions of Windows; what you can actually accomplish depends more on the version of Windows than it does on the hardware.
For example, an old computer running XP can still run all apps developed for XP--albeit very slowly. However a ...
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Then there is the software that actually makes it (the BT hardware) go and provide the actual services the hardware manufacturer wishes to provide. Think of this like a PC and Windows: You can have any combination of old to new hardware and old to new versions of Windows; what you can actually accomplish depends more on the version of Windows than it does on the hardware.
For example, an old computer running XP can still run all apps developed for XP--albeit very slowly. However a ...
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Check this out, someone who says they are AWS internal just slated the release for the SMT5600 for 10/29.
http://www.howardforums.com/showthread.php?s=&postid ... »
http://www.howardforums.com/showthread.php?s=&postid ... »
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All I could find in this link was talk of the MPx220, not of the Audiovox. I hope that unit comes out soon. I will not get another Motorola product after all my experience with them.
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If you want to stick around till next week you won't be disappointed. 🙂
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Ok, I peeled both my eyes, but all I saw was the same old stuff. Show me the phone! 🙂
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There are a couple of different things people could be referring to when they talk about "class 2". Technically, Class 2 is in regards to the power consumption of the BT device. There are three classes of BT power consumption. These different classes govern the various minimum/nominal/maximum (min/nom/max) output power:
Power Class 1: 1mW/NA/100mW
Power Class 2: 0.25mW/1mW/2.5mW
Power Class 3: NA/NA/1mW
Now without getting into RF voodoo, basically what these classes represent is how much power the BT device consumes in order to transcieve BT signals (to/from). The lower the power consumption, the less impact on the host device (e.g. the phone) and therefore the longer the battery life, etc.
Now, with less power consumption also c...
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Power Class 1: 1mW/NA/100mW
Power Class 2: 0.25mW/1mW/2.5mW
Power Class 3: NA/NA/1mW
Now without getting into RF voodoo, basically what these classes represent is how much power the BT device consumes in order to transcieve BT signals (to/from). The lower the power consumption, the less impact on the host device (e.g. the phone) and therefore the longer the battery life, etc.
Now, with less power consumption also c...
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