Using two phones in car on bluwtooth AT ONCE...possible?

[Tiggsy]

friend is about to get a new Volkswagen golf. She is adamant that she can pair and USE two phones at once and has a friend with a Tiguan where she has seen this done.

i asked "so if both phones ring at once what happens?"

And she seems to think that you can to take via the car controls.

Very cool if right - but I thought you could only connect one phone at a time (no matter how many were paired to the car) - orders new technology moves this on?

Or is she talking nonsense.

[Jimmy Recard]

My two phones connect to the systems in my Vauxhall and Land Rover and work at the same time

[a]

Definitely possible on Bluetooth 4.1 and newer devices (although the car's software may or may not make use of this feature - I don't know), not sure about older BT versions.

[Zetec-S]

What happens if you use one phone to call the other?

[Jimmy Recard]

Zetec-S said:

What happens if you use one phone to call the other?

The world implodes!


I'll try it if you'd like. It'll probably break my car but it's research

[Tiggsy]

Cool - not nonsense after all then!

[Ninja59]

Idrive can handle 2 active phones, I would presume it down in some cases to which phone was called first (or a priority situation as mine as phone 1 and 2).

Note it is only 2 active phones, in total a few more can be stored that are not active.

[sc0tt]

My fiesta does this too.

[a]

Zetec-S said:

What happens if you use one phone to call the other?

I assume the car media system will be busy making the outgoing call and won't accept the incoming call - so it will go through to the handset instead of the car.

[IanCress]

sc0tt said:

My fiesta does this too.

I had a Fiesta with Sync 1.1 and it coudn't do this. You could have one phone paired for calls and use a different one for audio streaming, but you couldn't have two phones available for phone calls at the same time. You had to disconnect one and connect the other if you wanted to receive calls on the other phone.

[Krikkit]

Definitely possible to have two phones connected to a bluetooth unit with each capable of receiving calls, but not called/calling at the same time.

[Zetec-S]

a said:

Zetec-S said:

What happens if you use one phone to call the other?

I assume the car media system will be busy making the outgoing call and won't accept the incoming call - so it will go through to the handset instead of the car.

I prefer this answer:

Jimmy Recard said:

The world implodes!

[daydotz]

Possible i was more surprised to get this function on a acient parrot mki 9100 after a FW update

[C.A.R.]

I was driving around for 4 months before discovering I could connect both my phones to my Seat Leon. Now I can be harassed by my family whilst driving around for work - excellent!

[jonwm]

Newer VAG stuff can, someone at work has an A6 that can handle it, my MY15 A5 cant though.

[Tiggsy]

I have a 16 A class and a 17 Astra nav - both can't

[Jimmy Recard]

Tiggsy said:

I have a 16 A class and a 17 Astra nav - both can't

Just in case I was misleading there - the one in my Astra that works is an aftermarket Kenwood head unit. 2005 car. I've got no idea about Vauxhall's own systems. But I can definitely receive and make calls on either phone and I can switch which one is streaming the music by changing the setting on the head unit

[AlexIT]

C.A.R. said:

I was driving around for 4 months before discovering I could connect both my phones to my Seat Leon. Now I can be harassed by my family whilst driving around for work - excellent!

Ehmmm... how old is your Leon? I might discover this feature about 4 years into ownership

I swear I've never tried to connect both my phones to the car's bluetooth at the same time

[BRR]

My Golf can do this, it makes you prioritise the phones though and if someone calls on the deprioritised phone it doesn't bring up their name etc just the number that is calling you

[Jimmy Recard]

BRR said:

My Golf can do this, it makes you prioritise the phones though and if someone calls on the deprioritised phone it doesn't bring up their name etc just the number that is calling you

Interesting, my Kenwood one doesn't discriminate like that. I'll have to try the LR one now because I'm not sure. I've used the Kenwood in the Astra a couple of times today already