Which Smartphone Would You Recommend To Use With 2011 Tr Satnav?

[AJW1100]

Hi. My current mobile does not have Wi-Fi so to use Toyota Touch & Go I need a smartphone, as you probably already know 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, 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!

My budget is around £250 but naturally want to spend as little as possible! Any suggestions as to what to go for?

The manual recommends:

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)

Regards

Alan.

[Konrad C]

I don't know much about Toyota Touch & Go, but I did a quick research. Most recent mobile phones will be compatible.

Nokia, Sony (Sony Ericsson), Samsung, HTC and any others built in the last few years should have good phones with good Buetooth protocols you need to pair with the Toyota Touch & Go.

Any decent smart phone costing £120 with Android and Windows 8 should work, as well as older phones.

Best thing to do is go to the manufacturers site and check the specifications, or download the manual.

I use an old Nokia 5800 in my car which has the handfree profile. it takes a bit of work to set the profile up.

[AJW1100]

Hi Konrad

Thanks for the reply, I have decided to take my time over this, I have paired my Nokia ASHA300 with the cars Touch & Go system and this works, sort of! I added a contact to my phone then when I used the car and it connected with my phone the new contact was not shown, there does not seem to be a 'Sync' command in the Touch & Go setup, anyone know if there is one, cannot find it in the manual?

In the end I gave up, deleted the pairing and re-paired the phone, this time it would only access the music on the phone and not the phone contacts. Anyway eventually it paired okay but there must be an easier way!

I have some addresses of my contacts on the phone but some the satnav can find, and some it cannot, even though they were entered via Nokia Suite the same way.

My TR is a 2012 model and the satnav shows speed cameras, the units dated early 2011 so must assume the camera database is out of date, is it possible to update the speed camera file? I normally use a TomTom with PocketGPSWorld cameras but it seems silly to have a TomTom stuck on the screen when I have a built in satnav.

I would say I am not a speed merchant, however a slight wobble over the limit can cost big time!