I'd love to send this pearl of wisdom to many many companies. Here's a bit of background in the lead up to my question ( for " question" read: anguished, heartfelt plea )
Many years, and many Nokia phones ago, while sat in the van having dinner, the radio chirped up and asked if I'd like to hear a text message. It could read messages out from my phone over bluetooth, and let me reply just by talking to it. Fast forward to my last but one Windows phone and a new radio, and eventually, after a lot of trial and error, I could do this again.
Then I got the newest Windoze phone, with replaceable battery, and expandable memory, oh deep joy, I could just keep putting new batteries in myself, and enjoying my favourite phone ad infinitum. Except that blasted Cortana didn't want to play. She'd dive in and take over, then lose interest and bugger off! In my efforts to solve this, I ended up talking to some minion in Microsoft, who said his boss was having exactly the same problem, and was waiting for a software update. Never came.
So, over I go to Android, and while I can talk to it easily enough, it refuses to acknowledge text messages at all when I'm driving, and none of the driving apps actually do what they promise. Grrrrr.
So, when my latest Android developed a fault, in desperation, I've gone fruit based, eeek!!!! First obstacle will be pairing it with the Alpine head unit in the van, and if I can manage that the question is:
Can anyone tell me how to receive and answer text messages with an iPhone over bluetooth, when I'm driving? So I can progress forwards to be able to do what I was doing about, ooh eight years ago.
Mod Note: Any smartbottom coming on to tell me how I should have gone orchard based eight years ago, I know where the Ban button is, and I'm itching to try it out.
P.S. Despite taking a tentative bite of the fruit, once the funds for my BB Loan appear in the account ( and don't even ask about how useless a certain high street bank are. I was asked for further information to simply get the system moving, and emailed back to say I'd sent it a month ago, and had acknowledgement of its receipt. Minutes later, I got the Adobe document to sign to get my hands on the flaming money! Just waiting for the digital funds to arrive. It's curious how more seems to happen when the blighters have gone home at five o'clock). I'm getting a new tablet. Is it an Ipad? Android?
Of course not children, it's a Windows!