Alfa Romeo Blue&Me 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
Road safety ............................................................. 7
DISPLAY AND BUTTONS ON THE STEERING WHEEL .......... 8
HANDS-FREE KIT QUICK REFERENCE GUIDE .................... 10
Prepare your mobile phone phonebook ......................... 10
Try out the voice commands ....................................... 11
Pair your mobile phone .............................................. 11
Make a phone call .................................................... 12
MESSAGE READER QUICK REFERENCE GUIDE ................... 13
MEDIA PLAYER QUICK REFERENCE GUIDE ...................... 13
HOW TO USE Blue&Me™........................................ 14
Steering wheel controls .............................................. 14
Voice commands ...................................................... 14
Display .................................................................... 17
Audio ...................................................................... 17
Blue&Me™ function menu ...................................... 18
HANDS-FREE KIT FUNCTIONS....................................... 19
Making a phone call .................................................. 19
Incoming calls .......................................................... 23
Managing phone calls ................................................ 23
Conference call function ............................................. 24
MESSAGE READER FUNCTIONS .................................... 25
How to read the last SMS text received......................... 25
Inbox....................................................................... 26
Managing messages................................................... 26
Deleting all messages................................................. 27
Signal types.............................................................. 27
MEDIA PLAYER FUNCTIONS ......................................... 28
How to connect the USB device to Blue&Me™............ 28
How to manage the media library ............................... 29
- Selection by folder .................................................. 29
- Selection by artist ................................................... 30
- Selection by genre .................................................. 30
- Selection by album .................................................. 31
- Selection by playlist ................................................. 31
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Playing audio tracks .................................................. 32
- Shuffle playback of the whole media library .................. 32
- Now playing (track data) ......................................... 32
- Audio play ............................................................. 32
- Pause .................................................................... 32
- Play ...................................................................... 32
- Stop ..................................................................... 33
- Next track .............................................................. 33
- Previous track ......................................................... 33
- Changing audio source ............................................. 33
Practical hints for using the media player ....................... 34
- Scrolling ................................................................ 34
- Organizing media files ............................................. 34
- Building the media library on Blue&Me™ ................ 34
- Building playlists for Blue&Me™ ............................ 34
SETTINGS FUNCTIONS................................................ 35
Pairing a mobile phone .............................................. 35
Managing user data .................................................. 38
Media player settings ................................................ 41
- Autoplay ................................................................ 41
- Shuffle .................................................................. 41
- Loop ..................................................................... 42
Advanced options ...................................................... 42
- Accessing the device ID............................................. 42
- Changing the GPRS code .......................................... 43
Exit the settings menu ............................................... 43
Blue&Me™ SUPPORTED MOBILE PHONES ................. 44
Mobile phones with Bluetooth
®
wireless technology ....... 44
- “Pull” phones
(phonebook automatically downloaded) ..................... 44
- “Push” phones
(phonebook not automatically downloaded) ................ 44
- Mobile phones with message reader ........................... 44
Supported USB memory devices .................................. 45
- Management of audio files from iPod devices .............. 45
- USB memory devices ............................................... 45
- Supported digital audio files ...................................... 46
- Supported playlist formats......................................... 47
VOICE COMMANDS (KEYWORDS) - SUMMARY .............. 48
Always available voice commands ................................ 48
Hands-free phone kit voice commands........................... 49
Message reader voice commands (keywords) ................ 51
Media player voice commands..................................... 52
Settings function voice commands................................ 55
TROUBLESHOOTING ................................................... 56
Hands-free kit ........................................................... 56
- General - display screen ............................................ 56
Message reader......................................................... 64
Media player............................................................. 66
iPod ....................................................................... 70
PERSONAL DATA PROTECTION ..................................... 72
SYSTEM SOFTWARE USE NOTICE ................................ 73
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The Blue&Me™ system, fully integral
with voice commands, buttons on the steer-
ing wheel and multifunction display mes-
sages, gives you the possibility of interact-
ing with your Bluetooth®wireless tech-
nology 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.
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.
Hands-free kit with Bluetooth®wireless technology,
message reader and media player
Windows Mobile™-based Alfa Romeo
Blue&Me™ is a personal telematic system
enabling to use communication and enter-
tainment applications expressly designed for
use in the car.
The Blue&Me™ system installed on your
car is equipped with hands-free kit, message
reader and media player, and it is preset for
future installation of additional services.
Note
Not all mobiles support the voice reading of
SMS or the automatic transfer of the directory
through Bluetooth®. For further information,
surf the web site www.alfaromeo.com to find
out the list of compatible mobiles.
OVERVIEW
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To use the hands-free kit, you need a Blue-
tooth®wireless technology enabled mo-
bile phone. This hands-free kit gives you the
possibility of interacting vocally with your
mobile 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™, refer to section
Blue&Me™ SUPPORTED MOBILE
PHONES.
To get started with Blue&Me™ hands-free
kit with voice recognition, you have to sim-
ply pair your Bluetooth
®
wireless tech-
nology enabled mobile phone with the sys-
tem.
Pairing is an operation that has to be made
only once.
Note
During the mobile phone pairing procedure,
Blue&Me™ attempts to detect a phone
equipped with Bluetooth
®
wireless tech-
nology within range and then establishes
the connection using a Personal Identifica-
tion 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
™ 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 ™ .
All the system functions are available with-
in the Blue&Me
™ 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 ™ using buttons on the steering
wheel or voice commands relevant only to
phone functions (LAST CALLS and
PHONEBOOK) and media player. To ac-
tivate settings when travelling you can on-
ly use voice commands.
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