Voice Dialing with a Touch Pro2 & Jabra SP700 Bluetooth Car Speaker

I live in one of those places that requires you to use hands-free equipment to make or receive cell phone calls. This is a good law, IMHO. And, Bluetooth makes this process relatively painless. This is, however, the fact that some Windows Mobile smartphones are more Bluetooth friendly than others. Fortunately, for me, the HTC Touch Pro2 I bought last week is one of those Bluetooth friendly Windows Mobile devices. Pairing it with the Jabra SP700 Bluetooth car speakerphone was easier than I expected. The TP2 negotiated the entire pairing process for me. I didn’t even have to enter the four digit authentication number.

The next step was another make-or-break test. Other Windows Mobile smartphone required me to touch the phone (a no-no while drive) to answer a call or make an outgoing call. They simple did not support the BT HID (Human Interface Device) profile to let me, for example, tap a BT headphone button to initiate an outgoing call using voice dialing. However, as you can see and hear in the video above, voice dialing from the Jabra BT speakerphone works fine with the TP2. The trick is to wait for the second (sharper sounding) beep before saying “dial” (a number) or “call” (a name in the Contacts list). As you can also hear in the video above, the option to verify the number I spoke is turned on. This insures that the number dialed is the correct one.

Note that although I tapped a TP2 button to hang up on the call, I could have also tapped the Jabra to end the call.

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