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No excuses

March 10, 2003

Quick question: Why can’t a Bluetooth-enabled mobile phone, capable of voice-dialing, tell you who is calling through your Bluetooth headset? Give up? Allow me to let you in on a little secret — there is NO reason!

I just don’t understand why, when Jennifer calls me up, I can’t get a quick ring in my ear, followed by my voice saying “Jennifer” (which was recorded by me earlier for voice-dialing).

The way I see it, it would work EXACTLY the same as phones do now: receive the call, match the number to the name in your phonebook, and display the name (for those not following: caller-ID). All I’m asking is for it to go one step further and “say” the name through the Bluetooth headset, else one is left to pull out the freakin’ phone every time a call comes in to see who it is, and we are left right where we started — tethered to the phone. The ability to do this isn’t far off I’m sure, but damn it, this should have been a priority in the first-gen devices.