Alfa Romeo Blue & Me Nac User manual

The innovating Windows Mobile™-based Telematic
Solution for the car
CONTENTS
OVERVIEW ............................................................... 3
The hands-free kit...................................................... 3
Message reader......................................................... 5
Media player ............................................................ 6
The navigation system ............................................... 6
Road safety ............................................................. 7
DISPLAY AND BUTTONS ON THE STEERING
WHEEL..................................................................... 8
HANDS-FREE KIT QUICK REFERENCE GUIDE .................... 11
Prepare your mobile phone phonebook ......................... 11
Try out the voice commands ....................................... 12
Pair your mobile phone .............................................. 12
Make a phone call .................................................... 13
MESSAGE READER QUICK REFERENCE GUIDE ................... 14
MEDIA PLAYER QUICK REFERENCE GUIDE ...................... 14
NAVIGATION SYSTEM QUICK REFERENCE GUIDE .............. 15
HOW TO USE Blue&Me
™ Nav ................................ 15
Steering wheel controls .............................................. 15
Voice commands ...................................................... 16
Display .................................................................... 18
Audio ...................................................................... 19
Blue&Me ™ Nav function menu .............................. 19
HANDS-FREE KIT FUNCTIONS....................................... 20
Making a phone call .................................................. 21
Incoming calls .......................................................... 24
Managing phone calls ................................................ 25
Conference call function ............................................. 25
MESSAGE READER FUNCTIONS .................................... 26
How to read the last SMS text received......................... 26
Inbox....................................................................... 27
Managing messages................................................... 27
Deleting all messages................................................. 28
Signal types.............................................................. 28
MEDIA PLAYER FUNCTIONS ......................................... 29
How to connect the USB device to Blue&Me
™ Nav.... 29
How to manage the media library ............................... 29
- Selection by folder .................................................. 30
- Selection by artist ................................................... 31
- Selection by genre .................................................. 31
- Selection by album .................................................. 32
- Selection by playlist ................................................. 32
Playing audio tracks .................................................. 33
- Shuffle playback of the whole media library .................. 33
- Now playing (track data) ......................................... 33
- Audio play ............................................................. 33
- Pause .................................................................... 33
- Play ...................................................................... 33
- Stop ..................................................................... 34
- Next track .............................................................. 34
- Previous track ......................................................... 34
- Changing audio source ............................................. 34
Practical hints for using the media player ....................... 34
- Scrolling ................................................................ 34

- Organizing media files ............................................. 35
- Building the media library on Blue&Me
™ Nav ......... 35
- Building playlists for Blue&Me
™ Nav ..................... 35
FUNCTIONS OF THE NAVIGATION SYSTEM...................... 36
- Navigation display ................................................... 36
- Voice messages ...................................................... 36
Start navigation ........................................................ 37
- New destination ...................................................... 38
- Procedure for entering destination TOWN/CITY ............ 39
- Operation for steering wheel keys during input
of TOWN/CITY name .............................................. 39
- Points of interest ..................................................... 41
- Resume navigation................................................... 43
- Arrival information.................................................... 43
- Stop navigation ...................................................... 44
- Recent destinations ................................................. 44
- Navigation settings .................................................. 45
- Vehicle position ....................................................... 47
- Route simulation ..................................................... 47
SETTINGS FUNCTIONS................................................ 48
Pairing a mobile phone .............................................. 48
Managing user data .................................................. 51
Managing updates .................................................... 54
- Updating Blue&Me
™ Nav .................................... 54
- Pausing the update ................................................. 55
- Using the phone during the updating procedure ............ 56
- Resuming the update ............................................... 56
Advanced options ...................................................... 57
- Accessing the device ID............................................. 57
- Changing the GPRS code .......................................... 57
Media player settings ................................................ 58
- Autoplay ................................................................ 58
- Shuffle .................................................................. 59
- Loop ..................................................................... 59
Exit the settings menu ............................................... 60
Blue&Me
™ Nav SUPPORTED MOBILE PHONES ......... 60
Mobile phones with Bluetooth
®
wireless technology ....... 60
- “Pull” phones
(phonebook automatically downloaded) ..................... 61
- “Push” phones
(phonebook not automatically downloaded) ................ 61
- Mobile phones with message reader ........................... 61
- List of Blue&Me
™ Nav supported mobile phones ..... 62
Supported USB memory devices .................................. 64
- USB memory devices ............................................... 64
- Supported digital audio files ...................................... 64
- Supported playlist formats......................................... 65
VOICE COMMANDS (KEYWORDS) - SUMMARY .............. 66
Always available voice commands ................................ 66
Hands-free phone kit voice commands........................... 67
Message reader voice commands ................................. 69
Media player voice commands..................................... 70
Navigation system voice command .............................. 73
Settings function voice commands................................ 75
TROUBLESHOOTING ................................................... 76
Hands-free kit ........................................................... 76
- General - display screen ............................................ 76
- Phone-specific: Audiovox
®
/Orange
®
............................ 83
- Phone-specific: Motorola
®
......................................... 84
- Phone-specific: Nokia
®
............................................. 86
- Phone-specific: Sony-Ericsson
®
................................... 89
Message reader......................................................... 91
Media player............................................................. 93
Navigation system .................................................... 97
PERSONAL DATA PROTECTION ..................................... 99
SYSTEM SOFTWARE USE NOTICE ................................ 100

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With this system you can also play your
favourite music stored on USB device and
select tracks and playback modes with both
voice commands or buttons on the steering
wheel.
THE HANDS-FREE KIT
The basic characteristic of this hands-free kit
is voice recognition with Bluetooth
®
wire-
less technology. With this system you can
make and receive calls safely and securely
using either voice commands or buttons on
the steering wheel under whatever driving
condition without having to take your eyes
off the road or removing your hands from
the steering wheel, as required by current
law regulations.
Bluetooth
®
wireless technology enables
wireless connection between your mobile
phone and the hands-free kit installed on
your car.
To use the hands-free kit, you need a Blue-
tooth
®
wireless technology enabled mobile
phone. This hands-free kit gives you the pos-
sibility of interacting vocally with your mo-
bile phone while driving, even if your mo-
bile device does not feature this capability.
You can also interact with your mobile phone
manually and visually using the steering
wheel controls and the instrument panel
multifunction display.
For further details on the mobile phones sup-
ported by Blue&Me
™ Nav, refer to sec-
tion Blue&Me ™ Nav SUPPORTED MO-
BILE PHONES.
To get started with Blue&Me
™ Nav
hands-free kit with voice recognition, you
have to simply pair your Bluetooth
®
wire-
less technology enabled mobile phone with
the system.
Pairing is an operation that has to be made
only once.
Hands-free kit with Bluetooth®wireless technology,
message reader, media player and navigation system
OVERVIEW
Alfa Romeo Blue&Me ™ Nav Nav based
on Windows Mobile™ is a personal telem-
atic system that allows the use of commu-
nication, entertainment and navigation ap-
plications specifically designed for in-car use.
The Blue&Me
™ Nav system installed on
your car offers handsfree, text message
reader, multimedia player and navigation
system functions and is ready for the addi-
tion of further services due to become avail-
able in the future.
The Blue&Me
™ Nav system, fully inte-
gral with voice commands, buttons on the
steering wheel and multifunction display
messages, gives you the possibility of in-
teracting with your Bluetooth
®
wireless
technology mobile phone (even if you keep
it in your pocket or bag) without having to
take your eyes off the road or removing your
hands from the steering wheel. To use voice
commands you are not required to train the
voice recognition system to recognize your
voice. This implies that the system is near-
ly equally performing with different persons,
i.e.: the voice recognition system is of the
“speaker independent” type.

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NOTE
During the mobile phone pairing procedure,
Blue&Me ™ Nav attempts to detect a
phone equipped with Bluetooth
®
wireless
technology within range and then estab-
lishes the connection using a Personal Iden-
tification Number (PIN).
Once your phone is paired, you have the op-
tion to transfer your mobile phone contacts
to the hands-free kit, to make a phone call
either by using the contacts list or directly
pronouncing the phone number, to answer
a call and also to answer another incoming
phone call.
To interact with Blue&Me
™ Nav you can
use either buttons on the steering wheel and
voice commands. With voice recognition,
you can perform system function by speak-
ing voice commands, also identified as “key-
words”. When the system recognizes a key-
word, it will respond with the appropriate
action. Voice recognition is an easy and con-
venient way to use Blue&Me ™ Nav.
All the system functions are available with-
in the Blue&Me
™ Nav Main Menu.
When the car is not moving, you can surf
through the menu using either buttons on
the steering wheel and voice commands.
When you are travelling, you can interact
with Blue&Me ™ Nav using buttons on
the steering wheel or voice commands rel-
evant only to phone functions (LAST
CALLS and PHONEBOOK) and media
player. To activate settings when travelling
you can only use voice commands.
The hands-free kit enables the following op-
erations:
❒ Contact calling by voice - you can call
a contact in your mobile phone phonebook
using your voice. You can also call a con-
tact in your phonebook by scanning
through the entries on the multifunction
display.
(To use this option you have to transfer your
mobile phone contacts to the hands-free kit
phonebook).
❒ Digit-dialling by voice - you can dial
a phone number by speaking the digits
to be dialled.
❒ To call the SMS text sender - call di-
rectly the last SMS text sender or the
sender of a message received and stored
yet in the Blue&Me ™ Nav inbox.
❒ To answer a call - you can answer an
incoming call by pressing the key
ß
on
the steering wheel.
❒ Conference Call - you can call another
contact while you are engaged in a phone
conversation (with Bluetooth
®
phones
supporting this option)
❒ Call waiting - while engaged in a phone
conversation, you can receive notification
of another incoming phone call, answer
the other incoming phone call, and switch
between two ongoing phone conversa-
tions. (Call waiting is only supported by
a subset of compatible mobile phones).

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After you place your mobile phone in the car
environment and create a pairing relationship
with Blue&Me ™ Nav, you can make
phone calls by speaking keywords or press-
ing buttons on the steering wheel. When us-
ing the hands-free phone, the audio output
of a phone conversation is heard through your
car sound speakers.
MESSAGE READER
The Blue&Me ™ Nav message reader en-
ables automatic reading, through the car
sound system, of the SMS texts you receive
on your Bluetooth
®
wireless technology
mobile phone. The message reader will al-
so interpret any abbreviation and emoticon
contained in the SMS text.
Message reader functions are managed by
the control buttons on the steering wheel or
by the Blue&Me
™ Nav voice com-
mands.
The Blue&Me
™ Nav message reader en-
ables the following operations:
❒ To display on the instrument panel mul-
tifunction display a visual notification
signal indicating that you have received
a new SMS text on your Bluetooth
®
wireless technology mobile phone, with
sender’s number/name; Blue&Me ™
Nav will also propose you to read the
message received
❒ To manage the list of SMS texts received
on your Blue&Me ™ Nav paired mo-
bile phone
❒ To read again the messages received and
stored
❒ To call the SMS text sender using the
buttons on the steering wheel or voice
commands
❒ To delete individual messages or the en-
tire inbox using the buttons on the steer-
ing wheel or voice commands.
The Blue&Me
™ Nav system can also rec-
ognize and read abbreviations, if any (e.g.
“ILUVU” will be read like “I love you”) and
interpret the most usual emoticons (e.g.:)
will be read like “Smile”), adopted nowa-
days to write SMS texts.

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MEDIA PLAYER
With the Blue&Me ™ Nav media player
you can play, via the car sound system, the
digital audio files stored on a USB device by
simply connecting it to the USB port located
in the car.
In this way, while you are driving you can
play your favourite personal music collec-
tions.
The media player enables the following op-
erations:
❒ Digital audio playback - you can
play all your digital audio files ( .mp3 ,
.wma , .wav ) or play a customized
playlist ( .m3u or .wpl format).
❒ Audio file selection by category -
you can play all audio files of a certain cat-
egory, e.g.: album, artist or genre.
❒ Playback options - while playing tracks
you can select the following options: Play,
Stop, Next track, Previous track, Shuffle
and Loop track .
NOTE
The media player does not support audio
files compressed with other formats (e.g.:
.aac) and DRM (Digital Right Management)
protected audio files. Non-supported audio
files that may be present on the USB device
will be ignored.
To use the media player, you have to sim-
ply connect (directly or by an extension
lead) your USB device to the car USB port.
Fitting the electronic key into the ignition de-
vice, Blue&Me
™ Nav will start building
your media library. At the end of this oper-
ation you can surf the whole library and
browse through its categories as required us-
ing the buttons on the steering wheel or
voice commands. Blue&Me ™ Nav will
then play your selection via the car sound
system.
THE NAVIGATION SYSTEM
The Blue&Me ™ Nav navigation system
allows you to reach a required location
quickly and safely. You will be taken to your
destination by means of voice messages and
pictogram instructions shown on a the ve-
hicle’s reconfigurable multifunction display.
The navigation system allows you to:
❒ Enter a new destination - you can
enter the address of a desired destina-
tion, specifying the name of the desti-
nation street with the house number or
simply the town/city centre.
❒ Navigate to a point of interest -
you can call up as a final destination a
point of interest selected from a catego-
ry list (e.g. hotels, restaurants, airports,
railway stations, authorised workshops,
etc.).
❒ Trip information - Blue&Me ™ Nav
is able to provide estimated time of ar-
rival and distance to a preset destination.
It also allows you to display your car’s po-
sition (latitude, longitude and number of
GPS satellites received).
❒ Recent destinations - you may
choose one of the destinations recently
preset, stored by the system in a special
list.
❒ Navigation settings - you can set
your preferences for the route type, e.g.
motorways, toll-roads or ferries.
❒ Route simulation -Blue&Me ™
Nav allows you to simulate the type of
route to your set destination in advance.

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ROAD SAFETY
Read and Follow Instructions: before using your system, read and follow all instructions and safety information provided in this end
user manual (“User’s Guide”). Not following precautions found in this User’s Guide can lead to an accident or other serious consequences.
Keep User’s Guide in the car: when kept in the car, the User’s Guide will be a ready reference for you and other users unfamiliar with the sys-
tem. Please make certain that before using the system for the first time, all persons have access to the User’s Guide and read its instructions and safe-
ty information carefully.
WARNING Operating certain parts of this system while driving can distract your attention away from the road, and pos-
sibly cause an accident or other serious consequences. Do not change system settings or enter data non-verbally (using
your hands) while driving. Stop the car in a safe and legal manner before attempting these operations. This is impor-
tant since while setting up or changing some functions you might be required to distract your attention away from the
road and remove your hands from the wheel.
GENERAL OPERATION
Voice Command Control: functions within the system may be accomplished using only voice commands. Using voice commands while driving al-
lows you to operate the system without removing your hands from the wheel.
Prolonged Views of Screen: do not access any function requiring a prolonged view of the screen while you are driving. Pull over in a safe and
legal manner before attempting to access a function of the system requiring prolonged attention. Even occasional short scans to the screen may be
hazardous if your attention has been diverted away from your driving task at a critical time.
Volume Setting: do not raise the volume excessively. Keep the volume at a level where you can still hear outside traffic and emergency signals while
driving. Driving while unable to hear these sounds could cause an accident.
Use of Speech Recognition Functions: speech recognition software is inherently a statistical process which is subject to errors. It is your re-
sponsibility to monitor any speech recognition functions included in the system and address any errors.
Distraction Hazard: any features may require manual (non-verbal) setup. Attempting to perform such set-up or insert data while driving can seri-
ously distract your attention and could cause an accident or other serious consequences. Stop the vehicle in a safe and legal manner before attempt-
ing these operations.
WARNING
Operating certain parts of this system while driving can distract your attention away from the
road, and possibly cause an accident or other serious consequences; for this reason certain func-
tions shall only be used when driving conditions are secure and, if required, only when the car is stopped.
WARNING

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DISPLAY AND BUTTONS ON THE STEERING WHEEL
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USB port
Blue&Me™ Nav direct function keys, near the front courtesy light (where provided)
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Short press function
(less than 1 second)
– Launch Blue&Me ™ Nav Main Menu
– Confirm selected menu option
– Accept an incoming phone call
– Switch between two ongoing phone conversations
(call waiting)
– Select text message displayed
– Cancel voice recognition
– Cancel a voice announcement
– Interrupt message reading
– Exit Blue&Me
™ Nav Main Menu
– Exit the sub-menu and return to the previous menu option
– Exit current menu option without storing settings
– Turn the microphone on/off during a phone conversation
– Mute the ring tone of an incoming call
– Media player Pause on/off
– Activate voice recognition
– Interrupt voice announcement to provide a new voice command
– Select media player tracks
Long press function
(more than 1 second)
– Reject an incoming
phone call
– End a phone call
(hang up)
–
– Repeat the last
utterance in a voice
interaction
–
STEERING
WHEEL
Notes
❒ For many tasks, the steering wheel buttons SRC and
ß
can be used interchangeably, and you can use the key that is more convenient for you to
press.
❒ For both operating modes of steering wheel buttons (short or long press), the function chosen will be activated when you release the button.
Controls Button
ß
&
ô
÷ / ˜