iPhone and iPod

[EyeOnTheHawks]

I've had some great help from another member in the GP forum but wanted some more specific advice on te Blue&Me. Fiat's website and all the forum threads I have read have confused me somewhat!

I have an iPhone 3G, what features will I be able to use on the Blue&Me. I really only want to be able to recieve calls and make them to a handful of people - a few friends etc - while Im driving.

Is this posible with the iPhone?

My iPod is mac formatterd and the majority of my music is from iTunes. I understand that this will not work with Blue&Me. Whats the best way to deal with this? Re-formatting on a PC and transfering to mp3 will take an age surely and I dont have a PC anyway. Will an apple formatted USB work? Is there no aux cable in the GP? Will the usb stick at least charge my ipod (newest kind, nano)?

 

[BGreatholder]

iPhone 3G will work for calls etc, at this moment in time it cant function with the message reader or as an ipod.

it WILL:
pair with Blue&Me for calls.
show your recent calls.
transfer your phonebook
work with voice activation (eg, call mr wrong work)

iPOD:
Music will need to be in MP3 or WMA, disk mode turned on and formatted in FAT32 (PC) if you havnt got a PC you could try formatting your ipod in fat32 via your mac and seeing if that works (itunes may bitch, but u could copy the files onto the ipod, not using itunes..).

The system cannot read apples AAC music files, or apples file system (HFS+)..

hope that helps..
Ben.

 

[EyeOnTheHawks]

Thanks, Ben!!!!!!!

I'll make sure I've got the latest update on iPhone and hopefully that will all work fairly straightforward!

As for the music, think I will use a friends PC to format a USB pen, put some MP3s on that and then just update as I feel neccasary. Can leave it in the car that way. Maybe in the future they'll accept aac and iPod, you never know, maybe.

So.... where do I order one of these Grande Punto thingys then?