iphone 4 doesnt work with VW bluetooth

[Syd118TSI]

Works perfectly fine with the 9w7 kit. No idea whether the 9w7 would be compatible with your car.

[Maverick]

Thanks for your spin on things, I will take it up with Apple as I totally agree that making a Bluetooth Standard should mean that all bluetooth devices follow that standard.

Good luck with that.

However for you to totally rip into Apple like that is a bit over the top, name one other company that has a 100% perfection rate on all features, across all of their products - none! In fact name one other company that makes telephones that are 100% perfect, again none.

I never said any company was perfect however Apple released their iphone knowing that the bluetooth was not compatible with many bluetooth devices, they also knew of the reception issues and they knew of the shattering glass issue but still choose to release it.

Apple are an arrogant company that comes from super arrogant steve jobs, they will not accept any flaws in their product and their response to the latter two issues has been to introduce a slip on cover (to stop you from shorting out the aerials) and to quietly remove the slip on cover from their stores (to prevent the glass shattering).

So before you go preaching that Apple need to lift their game you should take a reality check and realise nothing in this world is perfect.

Nothing has changed, Apple are an arrogant company and they released a product with known flaws expecting their customers to buy new hardware to match the flawed bluetooth stack instead of telling customers that they know there are compatibility issues and they will be fixed.

If you think that it's ok that apple released their product with bluetooth flaws along with the other ones and covered them up you should realise that apple are not the be all and end all and there are other products and companies out there that don't treat their customers that way. It's funny that you're happy to criticise Volkswagen for the 3 year old $800 bluetooth kit when it's not at fault and has worked for the last 3 years but not Apple for the new $1000 iphone 4 that is at fault

[lump_a_charcoal]

Sorry to barge in here like this (I hate interrupting arguments), but does anyone know if the bluetooth on an 07 Golf will work with Android phones at all?

[Maverick]

Sorry to barge in here like this (I hate interrupting arguments), but does anyone know if the bluetooth on an 07 Golf will work with Android phones at all?

Android phones are varied and different unlike the iphone where there is one model and that's it. But yes Android phones work and I've yet to see anyone post with a problem about compatibility.

[lump_a_charcoal]

Sweet, thanks!

[Watson]

Hi Brad
Did you get this fixed, I have a problem with mine too. It keeps disconnecting after a minute or so ... I've had both the bluetooth and the phone replaced - still same problem. Can you / anyone help? I agree - $800 -- for nothing!