because of all the confusion some people are having looking for phones they know work with the acura tl handsfreelink system - i decided to help them out by taking a look at what bluetooth profiles the TL *really* supports.
ben hui, with whom i used to work, has created a great freeware bluetooth browser (which is more of a sniffer) which was great for this task. thanks ben!
the profiles
you can see here the HFL supports Handsfree, OBEX Object Push, and OBEX FileTransfer. so that's why the P800 and P900 won't work with HFL, they only support the "Headset" profile.
here's some more of the details:
so i find it interesting that HFL also supports OBEX Object Push and OBEX FileTransfer. I wonder what you could do with that. perhaps that's just used to pass along some of the meta information like the phone's battery level and such.
one thing i think would be cool is to have text messages get pushed to the screen as they come in on the phone. i'll have to look into writing that.
Posted by Steve at January 20, 2004 10:40 AM | TrackBack
oh man. text messages pushed to the screen. i can see the day when your dealership OTA's your car's onboard processor with some new features or fixes, or just nags you with cheap oil change come-ons in plain SMS. yep, this wireless-meets-auotmotive intersection has a TON of interesting applications.
Posted by: matt at January 24, 2004 01:23 PM