Using the Bluetooth
®
interface
COMAND provides telephony via the
Bluetooth
®
interface by connecting a
Bluetooth
®
-compatible mobile phone. The
following functions can be used when a
suitable mobile phone is connected to the
Bluetooth
®
interface:
R
Hands-free phone operation
R
Phone book
R
Reception of electronic business cards
(vCards
4
)
i
For further information on suitable mobile
phones and connecting Bluetooth
®
-
enabled mobile phones to COMAND
R
visit
www.mbusa-mobile.com
R
call the Mercedes-Benz Customer
Assistance Center at
1-800-FOR-MERCedes
(1-800-367-6372) (in the USA)
R
call Customer Service at
1-800-387-0100 (in Canada)
Calls disconnected while the vehicle is
in motion
A call may be disconnected if
R
there is insufficient network coverage
R
you move from one transmitter/receiver
area (cell) into another and no channels are
free or the cell is full
Operating options
i
The components and operating principles
of COMAND can be found on (
Y
page 68).
You can operate the mobile phone using the
following:
R
the keys on the mobile phone
R
the COMAND telephone keypad in the
center console
R
the COMAND controller
R
the multifunction steering wheel
R
the Voice Control System (
Y
page 217)
Unless otherwise specified, the descriptions
and illustrations in this section apply to
COMAND or the telephone keypad in the
center console. Thus, in order to use the
described functions you always have to call
up the
Telephone
menu. The fastest way to
get to the
Telephone
menu is pressing
shortcut button
S
.
You can control other functions of the mobile
phone via the COMAND, instrument cluster
control system (
Y
page 211) or Voice Control
System (
Y
page 217).
Caller ID
COMAND can display the telephone number
and the name of the caller, e.g. for an
incoming call and also in other menus or
displays.
For the telephone number to be displayed,
the caller must transmit his telephone
number.
This is also the case for name displays. For
this, the telephone number and the name of
the caller must also be saved in the mobile
phone book.
Functional restrictions
You will not be able to use the telephone, or
you may have to wait a while, in the following
situations:
R
If the
Bluetooth
function in COMAND or
on the mobile phone is switched off.
R
If the telephone has not yet logged into the
network.
The telephone tries to log into a network
automatically. If no network is available,
you will also not be able to make a “911”
emergency call. If you attempt to make an
4
vCards are electronic business cards used by e-mail applications, mobile phones, PDAs, etc. to exchange
contact information.
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