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Can you explain exactly your setup, I have an iPhone4. Are you saying you have an USB wi-fi adapter or are you using the iPhone4 as some sort of hot spot via bluetooth, then wi-fi to other devices? Thanks, Jason

A detailed write up would be awesome, also a question on these Chrome Clad wheels. What would you suggest as the best way to wash/clean then protect for least amount of Break Dust clean-up. I am already seeing some brake dust residue that is really hard to remove, I probably have more miles then most on my Edge at this point, already over 6,200.. Thanks

Wilson, How about calls over Bluetooth, I have heard there are some issues on WP7 phones with Bluetooth calls, I just visited an ATT store and took a demo out the car, and can confirm, the Contact Photos and Texting worked perfectly. I made a call to my work phone and left a message, while it sounded great on the work phone end, it was some what garbled in the car, when hearing my voicemail message and the lady at end of the call that asks if you want to send the message or not. How much did you have to pay for it, since you have an iPhone4 I would assume you had to pay full price?

No major issues for me as well, yeah it is sort of annoying that with an iPhone it doesn't support all features but that isn't Ford's issue (Apple doesn't support all needed Bluetooth Profiles), I knew this when I test drove it and paired it. One thing that I think is really slick is that even though I don't have Navigation, you can go to sync my ride and add in Addresses and call them up from SYNC services for directions, you don't have a map on the screen so you have to rely on the fact that it knows where it is going, and I would always at least check a map online to be sure you have a general idea of where to go. Also a really nice feature is if you are in Google Maps on your PC, and the little A that comes up in the Bubble there, you can click on it, and then click More and then Click on Send To - Car. SYNC is there, and you put in your Phone Number, once you jump in the car and connect to Services - it will tell you, it has a saved point for you and ask if you want directions there. And the nice thing is, you could set it up, but not call into Services until you need to use it, and it is there. Oh yeah and I am getting 24.7 MPG (Calculating after every fill up) so far with 2975 Miles on it. That is great coming from about 18 on my Pathfinder.

Wilson - You can try reaching out to the guy in this thread, he never replied to my question in the thread itself, but I sent him a PM, and he says it is working with him Samsung Focus. However he did say it has issues while connected via USB, I believe he said it charges but SYNC cannot control/index the library. I personally don't care as I have my Music connected via USB Flash Drive, I just want the Photos and Texting with a Slicker Phone Interface then BlackBerry. I may be pulling the trigger on a Samsung Focus shortly, also on a side Note the 4.2 OIS update came out today, I installed over lunch, and it does not send Photos or Text Messages although I think we all knew that, since Apple had said nothing about new Bluetooth Profiles coming with this update. I will have to test out if the popping/skipping issue are still there on my ride home, usually after a skip or so, my system would lock up, and freeze all ports in the media hub until an overnight shutdown or fuse pull. Duh - forgot to post the url for the thread over at www.fordsyncforum.com http://fordsyncforum.com/index.php?/topic/1361-windows-phone-7-experiences/

So far I have been killing it - 24.5 average for me so far on almost 2700 miles. Here is a link to a site you can use to track, I would like to seem more people doing this. I am by far the best one out there, but I drive like 80% Highway on a 44 Mile Commute to work. http://www.fuelly.com/car/ford/edge I am Kona Blue Edge...

I am guessing it is a iPhone only thing, kind of like in the old days where devices wouldn't handle the iPhone that well before they became shielded. You would get the feedback and all, I bet the popping has something to do with that.

This appears to be an issue with the iPhone on 4.1 and all cars not just Ford. Here is a link to an apple forum where this is discussed in detail. It should be fixed in 4.2 which is supposed to be released tomorrow. apple forum

Scott I did see on another forum where ever since they plugged in their iPhone with 4.1 ios it caused skipping when connected via USB. I saw somewhere where some testers of the 4.2 beta version confirm this skipping has stopped. I have had my iPhone twice now while playing music sort of lock up and after that all the media hub ports turn off so to speak, can't use any other USB connected devices for a while. Both times after a restart all was fine. I am just hoping that 4.2 gives us iPhone users the Bluetooth profiles we want (contact photos, texting over Bluetooth) and perhaps a better version of avrcp which would give us metadata over Bluetooth. I haven't heard from any beta testers though that any of these are included in the 4.2 update.

Martcouz, How did it work out, I am interested as well at adding NAV after the fact. Did your dealer get the NAV working for you with the SD card you purchased?

Tonya - Glad to hear you now have your EDGE and the HD is working well, you mention you loaded up many playlists, I would like to ask if you use the Play Album "Blah Blah" does it play the tracks in correct order? Or perhaps you created a Playlist for each Album, I am thinking of going that route.... Jason -

I also tried a 320GB HD I picked up at Walmart for like 55 bucks and it is working very well, much faster reponse then I thought it would be, other then the Alpha issue where everything plays in Alpha order no matter what. I just found out on this board this morning that there is a new SYNC update out there for us, I know Wilson is going to try and get it installed ASAP, so maybe this will fix the Alpha issue, as well as other general weirdness.

Akirby is right on, on this one. The car has the ability to do way more then most phones can, it is not an issue with Ford working with the Apple's and HTC's of the world, it is those companies turning on basic defined Bluetooth profiles, that will allow our phones to interact with SYNC. Like we know how long it took for the iPhone to get Audio Streaming, that is just 1 of about 30 Bluetooth profiles available.

The MetaData (or track info) can only be sent by phones that support a particular higher version of AVRCP (Audio Video Remote Control Profile/Protocol) today the iPhone has version 1.0 I beleive to allow the play, pause, back and forth and so on.. what we really want is version 1.4 of AVRCP to allow even the indexing and browsing, I would be at least happy to see progress to 1.3 of AVRCP which would give us the MetaData info. I am not sure of the exact Bluetooth profile either that give the contact photos, I think it might be BIP Profile. Here is a great link to wikipedia and bluetooth profiles.

Wilson you mention you updated twice, however it doesn't appear in your sync history does it? Here is mine, I know I tried the Status Checker, it must of been on the 21st, I took delivery on the 16th.