Address Book pairing with a cell phone?

donebyleedonebylee
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in Mac Software edited January 2014
I read over over on the Apple discussion forums that it is almost impossible to use the pairing feature between Address Book and a bluetooth cell phone.



Does anyone know why this is? Is it our U.S. carriers hobbling the phones or is it Apple's implementation?



I would love for it to work. If anyone knows how to do this...other buying an iPhone (I assume it works with the iPhone, right???) please post the answer.



Thanks.

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  • Reply 1 of 6
    archstudentarchstudent Posts: 262member
    *edited*



    try searching macosxhints.com
  • Reply 2 of 6
    archstudentarchstudent Posts: 262member
    http://www.macosxhints.com/comment.p...book%20pairing
  • Reply 3 of 6
    donebyleedonebylee Posts: 521member
    Quote:



    Ummm, maybe I'm using the wrong search string but all I got there were useless RSS references.



    Anyway, you are supposed to be able to click on a phone number in Address Book and have it dialed on your paired bluetooth phone. I have a bluetooth phone, I can sync contacts with Address Book, but the "Dial with cell phone" command is grayed out when I click on the label in address book.



    Any thoughts?
  • Reply 4 of 6
    archstudentarchstudent Posts: 262member
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by donebylee View Post


    Ummm, maybe I'm using the wrong search string but all I got there were useless RSS references.



    Anyway, you are supposed to be able to click on a phone number in Address Book and have it dialed on your paired bluetooth phone. I have a bluetooth phone, I can sync contacts with Address Book, but the "Dial with cell phone" command is grayed out when I click on the label in address book.



    Any thoughts?



    try that link I posted.. it works for me anyway
  • Reply 5 of 6
    pevepeve Posts: 518member
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by donebylee View Post


    I read over over on the Apple discussion forums that it is almost impossible to use the pairing feature between Address Book and a bluetooth cell phone...



    ahh... no.



    any compatible phone on the list works like a charm. i never had a problem.

    (and even the ones not on the list mostly work)
  • Reply 6 of 6
    donebyleedonebylee Posts: 521member
    I must be doing something wrong because my phone is on the list and it will not allow me to initiate calls from Address Book. Every time I try to pair it to the phone it asks for a passkey, and whatever I enter it says pairing is successful, but it won't let me choose dial with cell phone when I click on a number.
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