iPhone with Garmin Zumo 550

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iPhone with Garmin Zumo 550

For those unfamiliar, the Garmin Zumo 550 is a motorcycle oriented GPS unit that offers an "all-in-one" interface including bluetooth to a cellphone so you can make/receive calls from the Zumo interface.

Good news! The Zumo connected to the iPhone and paired with it via bluetooth. The make/receive calls from the Zumo (using the iPhone as a gateway obviously) works great. AND, the Zumo retrieves the Address Book from the iPhone in realtime, so you can browse it from the Zumo. Interesting note - when looking at a contact with multiple phone numbers on the Zumo (remember, this is simply talking to the iPhone in real-time - not stored on Zumo), it will show a contact and say "2 phone numbers", so when you click the person's name, it then shows the various numbers with appropriate "mobile", "work", "home" icons!

Awesome!!

iPhone 8GB, Mac OS X (10.4.10), Garmin Zumo 550

Posted on Jul 3, 2007 3:34 PM

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OmahaJim

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Jul 3, 2007 5:26 PM in response to Adam Weeks

When a call comes in, does the iPhone send the caller ID information over bluetooth to the Zumo, in order to display it on the GPS screen? Would seem handy to be able to "screen calls" on the GPS without necessarily having to have two devices within eyesight, especially when on a pocket rocket.

I love my Garmin 378 (large GPS for auto and marine, but alas, no bluetooth), so I might be interested in the Zumo depending on what else it supported re: the iPhone. Thanks for the "heads up" (pardon the semi-pun).

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