Since I'm new to the G community, I figured my second thread could be to assist anybody or at least share my personal experience with exporting the phonebook from a Windows Mobile Pocket PC such as the Treo 700w (and possibly smartphones such as the Motorola Q or T-Mobile Dash) to their on-board Bluetooth systems. I don't know if it's any different for the cars with Bluetooth and no navigation, so here is my obligatory statement that YMMV. Feel free to post up your personal experience in doing so. I managed to get this done with no third party apps using my Mac, but I don't think Windows users will have the same luck. Read on to see what I'm talking about. This gets a little bit technical, but try and follow along.

According to http://www.infiniti.com/bluetooth/ - my particular phone, a Sprint PPC6700 (or Verizon XV6700) does not have the ability to transfer contacts over Bluetooth. Looking around their site briefly, it seems the same statement is on the instructions for the rest of the WM5 phones they list. For the specific pdf I'm referring to, see this link: http://www.infiniti.com/pdf/microsit...etup_Guide.pdf

Prior to seeing this, I tried to go through the menus on my phone to go about doing so. If you go into the Contacts application, you can hold down your stylus on a contact and "Send Contact --> Beam" which worked fine...for ONE contact. You cannot highlight multiple contacts to beam, and sending subsequent contacts only erased the prior one I sent anyway since the BT system is expecting an entire phonebook transfer.

This really started to annoy me considering I have a $500 phone that doesn't support something that should probably be integrated into EVERY phone. So I started to try and implement my own workaround. I thought maybe I could borrow someone elses phone to do the transfer, but the BT system supports individual phonebooks for each of the 5 phones you can pair it with, so that wouldn't work. I considering spoofing my MAC address from a PC, but I decided that was probably more of a hassle than the time it'd take to that that going. I won't try and bore everyone with my unsucessful attempts, so on with the good part.

I exported ALL of my contacts using my Address Book application on my Mac. I simply highlighted all of them, right clicked, and exported as vCard. This created one large vcf file of all my contacts. Unfortunately, I don't think Outlook has the capability to mass export all contacts as one vCard file, but I stumbled across this tool: http://www.sperrysoftware.com/Outloo...-Converter.asp

It's a bit steep at $25, but it may be worth it to you if you don't want to spend an entire day entering contacts on your nav system. So anyway you get your one big vcf file and save a copy of it to your phone. Just copy it over USB to the internal storage or SD card, it doesn't really matter. Once you have the vcf file on your phone, you can get in your car and tell the bluetooth system to download a phonebook. Open File Explorer and browse to where you saved the file, right click on it and select "Beam" and wait for MY-CAR to shows up and send the file. If you use Resco Explorer (my personal favorite) and right click the file and select "Send to... --> Bluetooth Recipient" and wait for MY-CAR to show up and send the file to it. You'll see the progress bar on the phone as well as the Nav system move along. Once it's done, you should have all your contacts in there under Phonebook (Downloaded). I know this is a major PITA, but it should still save you tons of time. Enjoy.