Bluetooth, 1 x headset, 2 x phones, UK Law, Rant & HELP Please!

Posted: 02-08-2004, 01:21 PM

Henry

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Hello Group

As a field engineer I am required to carry a company mobile as well as
my personal mobile.

UK law has just changed to make using a handset illegal when driving,
thus neccessitating the use of handsfree / car kit.

So my company changed over to Nokia 6310i's and Plantronics M3000
Bluetooth headsets.

My perosnal phone was a Sharp GX10 so I have just changed over to a
Sony-Ericsson Z600 to get Bluetooth in that too.

Then I find that the M3000 headset will only pair with one device at a
time.

I've just spent most of this weekend searching for a solution to this
i.e. a Bluetooth headset that will support two phones at the same time -
in other words that will allow me to take calls when driving regardless
of which of my phones rings.

It seems such an animal does not exist or if it does it's pretty well
hidden! Closest I've got is some vague articles that hint of a Bluetooth
1.2 spec about to be released that may do what I want?

Can anyone assist me please with what I can do now to solve this, or if
the newer spec headsets when they arrive will be suitable?

Many TIA,

BitStar

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Roderick Stewart

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Re: Bluetooth, 1 x headset, 2 x phones, UK Law, Rant & HELP Please!

Posted: 02-08-2004, 02:45 PM

In article <MPG.1a9047fa5980c40f989680@news.supernews.com>, Henry wrote:
> UK law has just changed to make using a handset illegal when driving,
> thus neccessitating the use of handsfree / car kit.
>
> So my company changed over to Nokia 6310i's and Plantronics M3000
> Bluetooth headsets.
>
> My perosnal phone was a Sharp GX10 so I have just changed over to a
> Sony-Ericsson Z600 to get Bluetooth in that too.
>
> Then I find that the M3000 headset will only pair with one device at a
> time.

One solution, if your company will agree to it, is to use the same phone
for both home and company use, but use two separately billed numbers, as
some (or all?) phones can now do.

Rod.

marks

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Re: Bluetooth, 1 x headset, 2 x phones, UK Law, Rant & HELP Please!

Posted: 02-08-2004, 08:05 PM

"Roderick Stewart" <me@privacy.net> wrote in message
news:VA.000005f7.00ff3e49@privacy.net...
> In article <MPG.1a9047fa5980c40f989680@news.supernews.com>, Henry wrote:
> > UK law has just changed to make using a handset illegal when driving,
> > thus neccessitating the use of handsfree / car kit.
> >
> > So my company changed over to Nokia 6310i's and Plantronics M3000
> > Bluetooth headsets.
> >
> > My perosnal phone was a Sharp GX10 so I have just changed over to a
> > Sony-Ericsson Z600 to get Bluetooth in that too.
> >
> > Then I find that the M3000 headset will only pair with one device at a
> > time.
>
> One solution, if your company will agree to it, is to use the same phone
> for both home and company use, but use two separately billed numbers, as
> some (or all?) phones can now do.
>
> Rod.
>

I'm in the same position 2 phones 1 car overcame the problem at some cost
but this is how I did it

work phone SE T610
private phone SE Z600

SE BLUETOOTH CARKIT

PAIR BOTH PHONES TO CARKIT
pair both phones to carkit
last one paired becomes default (with mine its the z600)
then when you start the car the carkit initiates connection with z600 when
its connected press the carkit remote to unconnect the z600 from the carkit,
then whichever phone rings will automatically connect to the carkit, you
must remember after every call to disconect the carkit from whichever phone
you last used, works with outgoing calls exactly the same.
This should work with SE bluetooth headset as well but apparently doesn't
work with some of the latest ones.
Again in theory it would work with a mixture of phones from different
maafactures but its never that simple.

hope this has given you some help.

Mark P.

Henry

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Re: Bluetooth, 1 x headset, 2 x phones, UK Law, Rant & HELP Please!

Posted: 02-08-2004, 09:25 PM

Thanks for your suggestions, much appreciated. I'm glad it's not just me
being dumb (ofter occurs!).

I've found what I can live with as a partial solution thanks to a
suggestion from my son (smart-*rse)... I am only concerned with incoming
calls on my work mobile when driving - I don't need to dial out. That I
can do manually when parked. So I've diverted all incoming voice calls
from my work mobile to my personal, and paired my headset with that. Now
anyone phones me on either phone and it goes to the headset when it's on
or my personal phone when it's off, and I just use the work mobile for
outgoing work related calls when not driving.

Not a perfect solution I guess but a workable one until there is a
headset on the market that caters for us poor slobs who have to cart
around two mobiles.

Cheers all,

BitStar

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