Motorola V710

can I use the USB cable accessory to transfer OTHER files...
Not that I know of - but bluetooth "should" still work for that other stuff.

I have a friend with a V710 but she is out of town. If no one else is able to clear this up I will check it out and let you know (when she gets back).

I just looked at this phone today at a a Verizon Wireless location. My contract is fulfilled next menth and I would live very much to get this handset if it is compatible w the Mac.

Please let us know what you learned from your friend. Does the friend use VZW?

thanks

Susan

I am pretty sure that they are only refering to syncing.

You don't "sync" mp3's and ringtones. You click on the bluetooth menu and use the "send file" option to send the files to the device. You should also be able to browse files on the device using the same menu.

This was the case for my V3 (razr) before they started supporting it.

NOTE: This all assumes that the phone has not been crippled by your carrier. Some carriers diable certain features. Those carriers are not cool.

If you're running Tiger, all you need to do is this:

http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20050501151747917&query=motorola+v7 10

It works perfectly well.

Justin,

Several months ago, I checked www.motorola.com. the indication there was that V710 did not support iSync. I had hoped this may have been resolved in future sortware upgrades from Motorola.

My experience with Verizon Wireless is wonderful. Wish Apple treated me half as good.

Susan

It's not Verizon. It is iSync that has support for the phone but is not enabled. If you follow the instructions I posted earlier, you'll sync it with Bluetooth fine. I do it all the time, both Address Book and iCal.

ZEBRA,

In one message you say it DOES work with address book, in the next you say you haven't gotten it to work ywt. Which is it? i am thinking of getting this phone if I can get the BT to function relaibly. Verizon has poor policies and not the best phones, but the best service. And BTW, Verizon did hobble the phone. Apple wrotethe iSync to reflect the enabled features of the device.

I said follow the instructions in the link I posted earlier to enable BT support.

Crap - I just downloaded iSynch 2.1 - I hope my hack still works. The battery is dead on my phone so I can't check it. Ack! If anyone downloads it and tries it let me know.

I have the v710 and Verizon in the cincinnati area. I can tell you that it does not sync with iSync via BlueTooth, but does with the USB cable from Motorola. It does not transfer files via BlueTooth nor the USB cable. I don't even know how you would do it via USB either. BlueTooth File Exchange clearly does not work. As someone stated earlier, it can communicate with your Mac, but only to dial (gee, whoopie). I'm not sure who is to blame (Apple or Verizon), but I highly suspect it is Verizon as they are your typical nasty large corporation very comparible to Microsoft in my opinion. For example, they don't want you to exchange games and ringtones I buy with my wife's phone when they can make her buy them too. I can see no reason why Apple would cripple BT syncing with iSync. I have never tried the "fix" mentioned in this thread, but I just might. Thanks to all who have contributed to the thread!

Well, I just attempted to try the link abouve to get the BT working, but the files mentioned doesn't exist in the location it apparently was with the previous version of iSync. I did try the other .plist file, but the contents were different than the example mentioned. I'm lost.