best cell phone for hands free BT?

[lucasorion]

So my boss has a Parrot LS3200 bluetooth setup in his car, and has been using the HTC Touch for the last year. He previously had a Motorola Q, which allowed him to dial contacts or a phone # using his voice. It seems that Sprint no longer supports true voice recognition, and he would have to record tags for each person he wants to dial hands-free.
What he wants is to have the ability to dial anyone in his contact list (which is huge) or just a phone number without fiddling with the phone at all. The Parrot system blindly imports contacts from a phone, but not all of them (limit around 500).

If we have to replace the Parrot system with something else, fine, and/or just get a different phone. What he needs is to have true hands-free in car setup, that allows him to dial anyone or any number.
Any advice?

 

[uli2000]

If he's still using a WM based phone, Try Microsoft's Voice command. Allows you to dial contacts, numbers, play song, and lot of other stuff without teaching your phone stupid voice tags.

http://www.microsoft.com/windo...out-voice-command.mspx

 

[gorcorps]

There was an app for blackberries that should still be around called vlingo. It pretty much did what Microsoft Voice does I guess, as it lets you voice dial, and even VOICE TO TEXT if you ever needed such a thing. Plus it's a blackberry, so it's a great business phone regardless.

 

[DivideBYZero]

Just as an aside, that Parrot has it OWN voice control for ANY phone connected. The phone is immaterial.

I had the 3100 series in a previous car and it was very good.

 

[DivideBYZero]

Plus, ANY blackberry comes with Voice dialing out of the box, powered by Nuance, with NO voice learning required or external apps.

 

[lucasorion]

yeah, the problem with the parrot is that it has a limit, and just (seemingly) randomly downloads contacts from his huge contact list on his phone until it hits that limit. I guess if I turn off activesync download of contacts to his phone, and then allow him to customize the list of contacts on his phone, so that it isn't the same huge list he has in MS Exchange, we could pare it down to probably less than 100 or so contacts that he ever might actually want to call from his car. Those could then be synced to the parrot system, which has a green button that he presses to initiate a call. MS Voice Command, at least the 2-3 year old version that I found a copy of and installed to test on his phone, wasn't very good at recognition, and kept misinterpreting names. I think we are limited to phones that can sync email,etc natively with exchange, so blackberry is out, unless we want to purchase the blackberry/exchange connector.

 

[shortylickens]

Despite all its other flaws my crappy LG Voyager actually had good BlueTooth capability.
When I test drove a Nissan Murano (fully loaded) we were easily able to set up the phone with the navigation system for hands-free calling and answering.

 

[uli2000]

Originally posted by: lucasorion
yeah, the problem with the parrot is that it has a limit, and just (seemingly) randomly downloads contacts from his huge contact list on his phone until it hits that limit. I guess if I turn off activesync download of contacts to his phone, and then allow him to customize the list of contacts on his phone, so that it isn't the same huge list he has in MS Exchange, we could pare it down to probably less than 100 or so contacts that he ever might actually want to call from his car. Those could then be synced to the parrot system, which has a green button that he presses to initiate a call. MS Voice Command, at least the 2-3 year old version that I found a copy of and installed to test on his phone, wasn't very good at recognition, and kept misinterpreting names. I think we are limited to phones that can sync email,etc natively with exchange, so blackberry is out, unless we want to purchase the blackberry/exchange connector.

There was a update to Voice Command a couple of years ago to 1.6, which really improved use with bluetooth. Unfortunatly, I dont think it will go any farther than that.