In car connectivity.

I have recently got a Seat Leon, ordered especially with the bluetooth audio car kit. Controlled by the steering wheel. Fantastic, unfortunately my phone has just given up the ghost (6111). Looking for a new phone with full compatability phonebook etc, but the Seat website hasn't been updated in nearly two years. Does anyone have any ideas on what phones do work (easily) or those to avoid.
Any help gratefully received.
Kiernan

CJLIM is correct, and Seat would probably have a list of compatible phones.
However, with my experience of Audi, the handsets are very old on their list.
I have an Audi S3, with a Bluetooth car kit which also has a cradle in the centre console armrest, as Seat and Audi are all part of Volkswagen AG, I'd imagine at a guess that they are using similar parts.
Normally to have the phonebook functionality you need to have a profile in the Bluetooth Stack called Phone Book Access Profile, most of the N or E series Symbian S60 handsets do not carry this profile.
However, the E71 does. My E71 is the only handset that I have used with S60 that works with all the functionality of the car kit, missed calls the lot.
The alternative work around for other E and N series handsets is here:
/discussions/board/message?board.id=topfaq&thread.id=97
You could also find a sympathetic phone shop that's willing to spend some time on you testing out some of their demo handsets in the car, this however is a long shot as most of them (especially large companies) will not entertain it and the Droid behind the counter is simply not interested.
Shunts...
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