GPS Bluetooth?

All comments are appreciated. I did not mean to direct my comment at anyone specific. I am trying to get them to make this phone into a high end GPS. It's so close, all the bits and pieces are there. This is the only unit that has cell, GPS, MP3 and Bluetooth. Only thing missing, BT does not play with GPS. Sprint and telenav just need to get them to work together.

Any $100 GPS has maps and some even have turn-by-turn. But only the high end GPS have BT. Sprint and Samsung can be the leader. It would be the cell phone of choice for motorcyclist, bicyclist, 4 wheelers, etc. Any activity that includes travel and a helmet. There is a whole secondary market for Helmet communications. Imagine one unit that can do it all, i hope they get it. So close, yet so far.

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make that +10 

I just dont understand this.
As ive mentioned before on this forum, I had Telenav on my Razr before my Instinct for about a year, and learned a lot about its quirks. It used to work with Bluetooth and you could answer incoming calls when GPS was running. The only bug relating to calls was that after about one or two minutes of the call, it would cut the other person off for about 3 seconds and then they would come back. Very annoying when you cannot do anything about it and its an urgent call from abroad or something... I think it was due to the phone trying to update the maps as well as handling the call.
Anyway, all this to say: if the Razr could do Bluetooth and balance calls and GPS, I would have thought the Instinct is a software upgrade away from being able to do so as well...

Did you read the title of the thread? Have you taken your GPS for a ride on a motorcycle looking for a specific address in a city you are not familar with? Or on a multilane freeway in traffic looking for an entrance to a busy airport Try it, then read the title of thread, then report back on how you can make the instinct GPS work for those situations. If it still works fine for you, that's great. I wouldn't want to be driver next to you while you're looking down on the 2.75"X1.5" screen going 60 mph This thread is to make the instinct work better, not make do, we already have that, paper maps work too. This thread is about a cell phone with GPS and bluetooth but they don't work together. Simple, I hope you get it... :

I am in the Detroit metro area and my GPS works excellent! I have not had a problem
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Did you read the title of the thread? Have you taken your GPS for a ride on a motorcycle looking for a specific address in a city you are not familar with? Or on a multilane freeway in traffic looking for an entrance to a busy airport Try it, then read the title of thread, then report back on how you can make the instinct GPS work for those situations. If it still works fine for you, that's great. I wouldn't want to be driver next to you while you're looking down on the 2.75"X1.5" screen going 60 mph This thread is to make the instinct work better, not make do, we already have that, paper maps work too. This thread is about a cell phone with GPS and bluetooth but they don't work together. Simple, I hope you get it... :
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Yes I read the thread and I was commenting on the above quote, I ride a busa and tried out the GPS, just cant hear the sound which was a bummer; and yes I used it in all the scenario you mentioned and it stiil
works good. As for reporting back the thread title reads GPS Bluetooth? and yes I got it before your comments, Thanks
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Like I said before, I certainly do not want to be on the same road as you when you are looking down on the screen at the speed the poser bike can go When I ride my motorcycles I like to keep my eyes focused on the road and traffic  Please reread the title of the thread and give it some more thought.

Let me try to explain. The instinct phone has a GPS feature, and it also has Bluetooth. This allows instinct to send sound to a wireless headset. However, instinct GPS does not send sound (turn-by-turn) to Bluetooth. The objective of this thread is for instinct owners that require the combined functionality and looking to replace or like to have, a GPS with Bluetooth (one less device to carry around and keep charged). This is usually desired for riders that have helmets with Bluetooth installed, such as motocom, Nolan, Schubert, chatterbox x1 etc. If it works fine for you without BT that is great, start your own thread and rave about it there, explain how you like to look down at the little map while you ride your busa Your riding capabilities must be extraordinary  :

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Not sure I understand the heat on this one. When I want gps I put my phone on the middle of the steering wheel (velcro) - easy to hear and easy to see. In Calif and many? other states it is illegal to drive with two-ear headsets.

This should really be a easy fix, I don't know why they have not done anything to fix this issue. I ride a motorcyle and can't even use the gps or pandora on my phone using a stereo bluetooth headset or speakers because of this. I went to the sprint store today and tried out the new palm pre paired with my bluetooth speakers and they WORKED and it was really LOUD, I was able to use the gps and have music playing in the backround, it muted the music everytime it had to prompt me for a turn. If this doesn't get fixed soon then I'm gonna have to go with the palm pre, it sucks because I really like this phone.